Crumb trails, threads and traces: endangered archives and history

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29 novembre 2016

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Maja Kominko, « Crumb trails, threads and traces: endangered archives and history », Open Book Publishers, ID : 10670/1.5ibkmx


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Advocating the opening of the Imperial Archives of France to scholars, their director-general Léon de Laborde, argued in 1858 that government “has no better means to prevent the writing of bad books than to provide scholars with the means to write good ones”, and that opening the Archives would let “the light of history shine from its true source”. The issue of what historians’ sources are and how they should be approached was debated from the beginning of history-writing, perhaps unsurprisin...

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