Week 3: Archival Sources
General
Modern Records Centre at Warwick
Archives of Sexuality & Gender
Women in the National Archives
British Library Digital Collections
Modern Records Centre, Warwick
Library of Congress Digital Collections
Early Modern
Warburg Institute Library Digital Collections
Modern Britain and Europe
Conditions & Politics in Occupied Western Europe, 1940 - 1945
Post War Europe: Refugees, Exile & Resettlement 1945-1950
Histpop : Online Historical Population Reports
Mass Observation Online 1937-1972
Popular Culture in Britain and America, 1950-1975
UK Parliamentary Papers - 18th, 19th 20th and 21st Century
Legacies of British Slave Ownership
Sources Portal for the Weimar Republic
Archives parlementaires (French Revolution Digital Archive)
Online Historical Population Reports
Wider World
Arab-Israeli Relations 1917-1970 : The Middle East Online Series 1
China : Trade, Politics and Culture 1793-1980
Confidential Print Africa, 1834-1966
Confidential Print: : Middle East, 1839-1969
Declassified Documents Reference System
Digital National Security Archive (DNSA)
Documenting the American South
Further Readings
Bastian Jeannette, “Reading Colonial Records Through an Archival Lens: The Provenance of Place, Space and Creation,” Archival Science, 6 (2006)
Beal, Peter, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and Their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England ( 1998)
Brett, Michael, Approaching African History (Rochester, Boydell & Brewer, 2013), see “The Written Dimension” and “The Scriptural Dimension”
Burton, Antoinette, ‘Introduction: Archive Fever, Archive Stories’, in Antoinette Burton (ed.), Archive Stories: Facts, Fictions, and the Writing of History (Durham and London, 2005)
Burton, Antoinette, Dwelling in the Archive: Women Writing House, Home, and History in Late Colonial India (Oxford, 2003)
Cook, Terry,‘The Archive(s) is a Foreign Country: Historians, Archivists and the Changing Archival Landscape’, American Archivist, 74, no. 2 (2011), pp. 600-632
Crick, Julia and Alexandra Walsham ed, The Uses of Script and Print, 1300-1700 (2004), introduction
Derrida, Jacques, Archive Fever: A Freudian Impression (University of Chicago Press, 1996)
Hamilton, Carolyn, Refiguring the Archive (Springer, 2002)
Love, Harold, ‘Oral and Scribal Texts in Early Modern England’, in The Cambridge History of the Book, ed. by John Barnard and D. F. McKenzie (2002).
Millstone, Noah, Manuscript Circulation and the Invention of Politics in Early Stuart England (2016)
Peters, Kate, Alexandra Walsham, and Liesbeth Corens, Archives and Information in the Early Modern World (2018), Introduction also chapter 7 by Heather Wolfe and Peter Stallybrass
Pollmann, Judith, ‘Archiving the Present and Chronicling for the Future in Early Modern Europe’ Past & Present, 230, (2016), pp. 231-252.
Sangha, Laura and Jonathan Willis, Understanding Early Modern Primary Sources (London: Routledge, 2016)
Steedman, Carolyn, Dust: The Archive and Cultural History (Rutgers University Press, 2002)
Stoler, Ann Laura, “Colonial Archives and the Arts of Governance,” Archival Science 2 (2002)
Stoler, Ann Laura, Along the Archival Grain: Epistemic Anxieties and Colonial Common Sense (Princeton, 2010)
Wagner, Kim and Ricardo Roque, Engaging Colonial Knowledge: Reading European Archives in World History (Palgrave, 2011)
Walsham, Alexandra, ‘The Social History of the Archive: Record-Keeping in Early Modern Europe’, Past & Present, Volume 230, Issue Supplement 11 (November, 2016), pp. 9-48.
Zemon Davies, Natalie, Fiction in the Archives: Pardon Tales and Their Tellers in Sixteenth-Century France (1987), introduction.