Archives have existed since ancient times. According to James O'Toole (1990), the term "archives" was originally used to "designate all collections of written records" (p. 28). In the modern world, however, the word...
An archive refers to a collection of historical records, and also refers to the location in which these records are kept.[1] Archives are made up of records (AKA primary source documents) which have been accumulated over the course of an individual or...
In Colin Dexter's 1989 novel The Wench is Dead, [1] the principal character is a police detective who becomes interested in a murder case from 1859 Oxford. His interest eventually leads him to inspect the bulky original physical evidence, which has actually been preserved...
Some topics are best depicted through example, so here goes: The Jeremy Norman Molecular Biology Archive, which includes papers from Aaron Klug, Max Perutz, Rosalind Franklin, Francis Crick, and James Watson, was on the auction block at Christie's.1 Its value? Between $2.2 and...
The Constitutional Court has struck down the law that opened Romania's secret police archives, a blow to efforts to further expose the country's communist past.Many Romanians contend the law had been used for retribution and blackmail. In the eight years since it took effect, many...
Holocaust survivors move closer this week to being able to find a paper trail of their own persecution when the keepers of a Nazi archive deliver copies of Gestapo papers and concentration camp records to museums in Washington and Jerusalem.For a survivor, it could be...
