{"title":"Shadow archives: the lifecycles of African American Literature","authors":"Michael Karabinos","doi":"10.1080/01576895.2020.1812145","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01576895.2020.1812145","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43371,"journal":{"name":"Archives and Manuscripts","volume":"48 1","pages":"351 - 352"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2020-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/01576895.2020.1812145","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"59121207","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"#Cuéntalo: the path between archival activism and the social archive(s)","authors":"Vicenç Ruiz Gómez, Aniol Maria Vallès","doi":"10.1080/01576895.2020.1802306","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01576895.2020.1802306","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The goal of this article is to explain our experience, as Society of Catalan Archivists and Records Managers (AAC) members, in the field of social web archiving. To that end, we have structured it in three main parts, the first of which is to show the importance of archival science as a political tool in the framework of the information society. The second part focuses on the path followed by the AAC from its first steps taken to preserve social web hashtags, in order to gain technical expertise, to the reflection on the theoretical background required to go beyond the mere collection of social web content that led us to the definition of a new type of archival fonds: the social fonds. Finally, the third part sets out the case study of #Cuéntalo. Thanks to our previous experiences, this hashtag, created to denounce male violence, enabled us to design a more robust project that not only included the gathering and preservation of data but also a vast auto-categorisation exercise using a natural language processing algorithm that assisted in the design of a dynamic and startling data visualisation covering the 160,000 original tweets involved.","PeriodicalId":43371,"journal":{"name":"Archives and Manuscripts","volume":"48 1","pages":"271 - 290"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2020-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/01576895.2020.1802306","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45468328","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Michael John Saclier, 1937–2020","authors":"P. Pemberton, E. Maidment","doi":"10.1080/01576895.2020.1818043","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01576895.2020.1818043","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43371,"journal":{"name":"Archives and Manuscripts","volume":"48 1","pages":"328 - 345"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2020-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/01576895.2020.1818043","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41990488","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Records, information and data: exploring the role of record-keeping in an information culture","authors":"Gregory Rolan","doi":"10.1080/01576895.2020.1808752","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01576895.2020.1808752","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43371,"journal":{"name":"Archives and Manuscripts","volume":"48 1","pages":"346 - 348"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2020-08-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/01576895.2020.1808752","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48724939","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Another archive is possible","authors":"Blanca Bazaco Palacios","doi":"10.1080/01576895.2020.1762683","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01576895.2020.1762683","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT There’s a classic motto that reads like this: Another world is possible. The aim of this study is to reflect: Is another archive possible? Are the archives created with the collection of material from social movements, such as the 15 M movement in Spain, or from the public’s repulsion towards terrorist attacks, as happened with the September 11 terrorist attack in the United States, or the 11 March 2004 (11M) attack in Madrid, really archives? This is what the author will investigate in this paper.","PeriodicalId":43371,"journal":{"name":"Archives and Manuscripts","volume":"48 1","pages":"250 - 258"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2020-07-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/01576895.2020.1762683","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42254496","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"From Belgium to The Hague via Berlin and Moscow: documenting war crimes and the quest for international justice, 1919-2019","authors":"Delphine Lauwers","doi":"10.1080/01576895.2020.1753543","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01576895.2020.1753543","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Exploring new sources on the Great War a hundred years after it ended is a unique and exciting experience for any First World War historian. The very nature of the documents that we are dealing with in the present case makes it even more thrilling: hundreds of investigation and prosecution files documenting the invasion and occupation of Belgium, produced by both military and civil jurisdictions in an effort to prosecute war criminals. These fascinating records – repatriated to Belgium from Moscow in 2002 – offer new material on issues such as the German atrocities and everyday life under the occupation, but they also provide highly valuable insights into the history of international criminal law. This exploratory article will trace the unexpected trajectory of these archives, contextualise their creation and highlight some of the treasures they contain. In doing so, this article will attempt to discuss the thorny issue of archive repatriation and the questions this raises from an archival and historical perspective. It also seeks to show that the establishment of an International Criminal Court, despite the fact that it is now being called into question more than ever before, rests on solid and far-reaching historical foundations.","PeriodicalId":43371,"journal":{"name":"Archives and Manuscripts","volume":"48 1","pages":"216 - 236"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2020-05-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/01576895.2020.1753543","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47957679","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Recordkeeping in the First Australian Imperial Force: the political imperative","authors":"P. Dalgleish","doi":"10.1080/01576895.2020.1765183","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01576895.2020.1765183","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Recordkeeping systems develop under the influence of their environment. An organisation’s compilation of records, their form, content and dissemination can be in response to external factors. How the recordkeeping administration of the First Australian Imperial Force (AIF) developed, expanded and changed over time is illustrative of the influences on the creation of records. The administration of the First Australian Imperial Force, including its recordkeeping, developed in an environment of heated political debate in Australia over that nation’s participation in the war and two failed attempts to introduce conscription. Circumstances in late 1915 combined to force a reluctant Australian government to intervene in the detail of AIF records administration in Egypt despite the government’s expectation that involvement at such a level in AIF management abroad would be unnecessary. This article examines the circumstances at work in Australia that led to such an intervention. It describes the events leading to the decision and traces the causes for the decision to factors in the political, social and military context.","PeriodicalId":43371,"journal":{"name":"Archives and Manuscripts","volume":"48 1","pages":"123 - 141"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2020-05-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/01576895.2020.1765183","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49646432","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Engaging with war records: archival histories and historical practice","authors":"B. Ziino, Anne-Marie Condé","doi":"10.1080/01576895.2020.1769363","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01576895.2020.1769363","url":null,"abstract":"The First World War (1914–1918) produced an explosion of record making and record keeping, from state agencies conducting a war of unparalleled scale, to individuals and families producing testaments of experience which also often became objects of remembrance and memorialisation. The effort to document has a history; so too does the determination – or otherwise – to retain those records, organise and describe them, and provide for or otherwise deny access to them. In turn, the ways in which contemporaries recorded and then archived the First World War have powerfully shaped the kinds of histories produced over the last century. The war was being recorded and archived as it happened – and for decades after – for particular reasons and particular purposes. The processes of recording and archiving have bequeathed in different times and places alternately a very rich, very partial, and very prejudiced record of conflict and its legacies. This special issue of Archives and Manuscripts grew out of a gathering of scholars in Melbourne in 2018. The conference, hosted by the International Society for First World War Studies, took as its theme ‘Recording, narrating and archiving the First World War’. Our selection of papers from that conference revisits the creation, recreation and transmission of knowledge about the war. Together, a series of archivists and historians investigate the ways in which a war that has been so critical not only to defining the modern world, but also individual and cultural identities, has been shaped and reshaped by those who produced and archived its record for a century since 1914. Studying the experience and demands of war – perhaps especially the First World War – has been enormously consequential for archivists and historians both. In an immediate sense, Hilary Jenkinson’s 1922 A Manual of Archive Administration emerged in the wake of that experience (subtitled Including the Problems of War Archives and Archive Making and published as part of a series on the Economic and Social History of the World War), with abiding impact on how archivists thought about their practice. More recently, studies of records-making and management during and after the First World War have been important in giving historical weight to emergent themes in archival thinking. For historians, of course, the war has other attractions. So well described as the ‘matrix event’ of the twentieth century, for the way it set the pattern for the century’s politics and culture, and indeed for its terrible example of humanity’s capacity for mass killing, the war has proven endlessly fascinating. As a wellspring, too, for narratives of national maturity in places like Australia and New Zealand, the war remains politically charged as a subject of historical debate. We should not be surprised that the recent centenary – even before it commenced – provoked expressions of unease at a perceived over-commemoration of 1914–1918. The continued historical and popular sig","PeriodicalId":43371,"journal":{"name":"Archives and Manuscripts","volume":"48 1","pages":"108 - 97"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2020-05-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/01576895.2020.1769363","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44702116","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Archives and trails from the First World War: repurposing imperial records of North African and Indian soldiers in Palestine and Syria, 1917-1923","authors":"S. Reddy","doi":"10.1080/01576895.2020.1766985","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01576895.2020.1766985","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT First World War scholars more or less agree on the limitations imposed by archival sources on the study of North African and Indian troops. Conventional methods to find ‘the voice’ of the soldier do not apply in this case and the scarcity of records partly explains why so little is written. So, what opportunities are there in such an endeavour? This article argues for the need to decolonise military archives from the Great War era. That is to say, to use information that was originally gathered to serve narrow military interests as a means to understand the war experiences of the colonial soldiers. These sources, largely official records, bearing stamps of the past regimes, cannot be separated from the context or intent of their production. Nonetheless, they must not be overlooked as new historiographical demands make it necessary to read colonial archives for evidence of their context. Failing to draw from, and reflect upon, colonial era records on the Great War, despite their shortcomings, is tantamount to condemning valuable aspects of global history to oblivion. In turn, acknowledging these shortcomings, paradoxically, lends greater value to such sources as the colonial context in which they were produced becomes observable.","PeriodicalId":43371,"journal":{"name":"Archives and Manuscripts","volume":"48 1","pages":"157 - 170"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2020-05-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/01576895.2020.1766985","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43782053","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Recording the war effort: immigrant communities in Latin America and the memory of the Great War","authors":"María Inés Tato","doi":"10.1080/01576895.2020.1766984","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01576895.2020.1766984","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This paper aims to analyse the initiatives undertaken by some immigrant communities residing in Latin America to record their mobilisation around the First World War. After the armistice, European communities in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Mexico, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay and other countries gathered detailed information about their activities during the conflict, published as profusely illustrated books of remembrance, offered to their governments as proof of their loyalty. The article intends to establish the peculiar nature of these publications as records of the war effort, and analyse the agents and processes of their elaboration, and their role as commemorative but also as archival documents.","PeriodicalId":43371,"journal":{"name":"Archives and Manuscripts","volume":"48 1","pages":"200 - 215"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2020-05-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/01576895.2020.1766984","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45776429","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}