History Webinars & Seminars 2020-2021

17-09-2020
Here is a list of interesting webinars & seminars for 2020-2021:
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    Financial History Webinar Series

    The Financial History Network is pleased to announce the Fall/Winter program for its 2020-2021 Financial History Webinar Series. The webinar sessions will take place throughout the academic year 2020-2021 on Mondays on Zoom at 5pm CET. It is possible to register on the Network's Eventbrite page or the dedicated links to each session below. To receive the papers discussed, reminders of our sessions, and follow-up discussions of the issues raised during the webinar sessions, please fill in the form here. Full programme available here

    Macro History Webinars

    The Graduate Institute Geneva and a consortium of twenty-four other institutions (amongst which Banque de France, LSE, and Harvard University) are launching the International Macro History Online Seminar (IMHOS) series. The papers and sign-up form for Zoom can be found on the seminar website here The seminars will run from 23 September to 9 December 2020 and take place on-line every Wednesday, 5pm CET. Sep 23: Niall Ferguson, Black Swans, Dragon Kings and Gray Rhinos: The World War of 1914-1918 and the Pandemic of 2020-? Sep 30: Ali Kabiri, Harold James, John Landon-Lane, David Tuckett, Rickard Nyman, The Role of Sentiment in the Economy of the 1920s Oct 07: Neil Cummins, Hidden WealthOct 14: Marc Flandreau, How Vulture Investors Draft Constitutions: North and Weingast 30 years LaterOct 21: Morgan Kelly, Understanding PersistenceOct 28: Francesca Trivellato, When Property Rights Are Not Enough: Lessons from Renaissance FlorenceNov 04: Caroline Fohlin and Stephanie Collet, The Berlin Stock Exchange in the ‘Great Disorder’Nov 11: Amanda Gregg, Steven Nafziger, Corporate Finance of Industry in a Developing Economy: Panel Evidence from Imperial RussiaNov 18: Erik Bengtsson, Enrico Rubolino, Daniel Waldenstrom, What Determines the Capital Share over the Long Run of History?Nov 25: Leandro Prados de la Escosura, Vladimir Rodriguez-Caballero, Growth, war and pandemics: Europe in the very long-runDec 02: Mark Carlson, Sergio Correia, Stephan Luck, The Effects of Banking Competition on Growth and Financial Stability: Evidence from the National Banking EraDec 09: Kris Mitchener, Gary Richardson, Contagion of fear

    Business History Collective

    25/09/2020 16:00 UK GLOBAL Historical Cognition and Strategic Entrepreneurship. Diego Coraiola
    30/09/2020 10:00 MEX IBEROAMÉRICA Capitalismo y operaciones bancarias en Brasil, siglo XX Aldo Musacchio y Sebastián Álvarez
    14/10/2020 10:00 MEX IBEROAMÉRICA Las grandes empresas en la economía Argentina, 1900-1971 Norma Silvana Lanciotti
    14/10/2020 16:00 UK GLOBAL Roundtable: Slavery and Business History Sherryllynne Haggerty, Rafael Pardo and Stephen Mullen
    28/10/2020 10:00 MEX IBEROAMÉRICA Mesa redonda. La historia empresarial en revistas especializadas Paloma Férnandez, Luis Jauregui y Martín Monsalve
    14/11/2020 10:00 MEX IBEROAMÉRICA Estrategias empresariales en el Valle del Cauca (Colombia) Ma. Fernanda Erazo, Sonia Jaimes y Julio Zuluaga
    18/11/2020 16:00 UK GLOBAL Paths Taken: The Strategic Trajectories of Retail Organisations in the United States and the United Kingdom, 1950-1980 Tom Buckley
    25/11/2020 10:00 MEX IBEROAMÉRICA Estrategias empresariales en México Martha Guerrero, Andrew Paxman y Ma. Guadalupe Venteño
    02/12/2020 10:00 MEX IBEROAMÉRICA Historia bancaria en Latinoamérica Victor Flores y Clemente Penna

    Young Scholars Initiative (YSI): Graduate Seminars in Economic History

    The Young Scholar Initiative is launching the new season of its YSI Economic history graduate seminar: one-hour online talks with discussion, free to everyone to sign up and participate. It will be a good way for economic history graduate students to stay in touch and make everybody feel more energized and motivated. This would also be the occasion to get feedback on your ongoing work. It also aims to make up for all the cancelled conferences and seminars where we would have tested our research.If you are interested to attend in the webinar please register at this link. The program is as follows: Sept 29: Ezra Karger, The University of Chicago, The Long-Run Effect of Public Libraries on Children: Evidence from the Early 1900s Oct 13: Alejandro Ayuso, Carlos III University, Winners of Japanese colonization in Manchuria 1907-1945 Oct 27: Katherine Hauck, University of Arizona, Farm Production in Purchased and Homesteaded Farms in Kansas, circa 1870 Nov 10: Adam Frost, Harvard University, Entrepreneurial transformation of socialist China Nov 24: Vitantonio Mariella, Sapienza University, Tenancy contracts and social capital at the origins of the North-South divide in Italy Dec 08: Vincent Delabastita, KU Leuven, The Feudal Origins of Manorial Prosperity in 11th-century England Jan 12: Iris Fu, University of California, Los Angeles, Intergenerational Transmission of Wealth Loss: Evidence from the Freedman’s Bank Jan 26: Damian Clavel, Oxford University, A Miskitu Loan in the City of London?

    Virtual Economic History Seminar

    The University of Warwick has launched an online webinar series on Mondays 8-9pm CET. Here is the programme, all information here:
    Sep. 21 Petra Moser Women in Science. Lessons from the Baby Boom (with Scott Kim) -- recording available here
    Sep. 28 Kilian Huber Are Bigger Banks Better? Firm-level Evidence from Germany -- recording available here
    Oct. 5 Pauline Grosjean Heroes and Villains: The Effects of Combat Heroism on Autocratic Values and Nazi Collaboration in France (with Julia Cagé, Anna Dagorret and Saumitra Jha)
    Oct. 12 Christian Dippel O Captain! My Captain! Leadership and Team Cohesion in the Union Army (with Andreas Ferrara)
    Oct. 19 Michael Makowsky Firearms and Violence Under Jim Crow (with Patrick Warren)
    Oct. 26 Ruixue Jia The Nexus of Elites and War Mobilization: An Empirical Investigation (with Ying Bai and Jiaojiao Yang)
    Nov. 2 Student session
    Nov. 9 Nico Lacetera Does Scientific Progress Affect Cultural Change? A Digital Text Analysis (with Michela Giorcelli and Astrid Mariononi)
    Nov. 16 Benjamin Marx J'Accuse! Antisemitism and Financial Markets in the Time of the Dreyfus Affair (with Quoc-Anh Do, Roberto Galbiati and Miguel A. Ortiz Serrano)
    Nov. 23 Diana Van Patten Multinationals, Monopsony and Local Development: Evidence from the United Fruit Company (with Esteban Méndez-Chacón)
    Nov. 30 Ömer Özak Borderline Disorder: (De Facto) Historical Ethnic Borders and Contemporary Conflict in Africa (with Emilio Depetris-Chauvin)
    Dec. 7 Luis Martinez Technocratic Autocracy, Higher Education and Social Mobility (with Maria Angelica Bautista, Felipe Gonzaléz, Pablo Munoz and Mounu Prem)
    Dec. 14 Sutanuka Roy British Colonial Gender Reform and Human Capital Investment (with Hiu F. Tam)

    Colloquia Doctoralia: post doc webinars in history of economics

        • 8 October, h15 CET Manfredi Alberti, "L'economia italiana nella 'crisi' degli anni Settanta" (in Italian)
        • 22 October, h15 CET Michele Bee, "The pleasure of exchange: Adam Smith’s third kind of love"
        • 5 November, h15 CET Cosma Emilio Orsi, "Economic thought and social institutions in Eighteenth century England"
        • 20 November, h15 CET Alice Martini, "A historical overview on the theories of saving and economic growth: from classical thinkers to the 'wealth theories' of the 1950s"
        • 3 December, h15 CET Paolo Silvestri, "Tax Justice and Reciprocity: The Two Tales of (One) Benefit Principle"
        • 11 December, h15 CET Gianraimondo Farina, "Il sistema del dare in un’area rurale della Sardegna del XVIII° secolo. Fra riformismo e restaurazione: i monti frumentari e granatici nella regia contea del goceano (1726-1827)" (in Italian)
    Connect via zoom link: https://us04web.zoom.us/j/71537146144?pwd=WS9YajA5aVRSTzdTV1pyQU4zNndOZz09
        • Tuesday, 22 Oct. 2019: Christopher Whittell, 'An adulterate coin? The coinage of the British republic (1649-1660) within the tradition of English common law'
        • Tuesday, 5 Nov. 2019: Fleur Stolker, 'Bankruptcy and insolvency in the early modern Court of Chancery, 1543-1628'
        • Tuesday, 19 Nov. 2019: Rob Bates, 'An Organized Suspicion? Structuring Administration in the American Civil War Pension System, c.1875-1882'
        • Tuesday, 3 Dec. 2019: Saumya Saxena, 'Court'ing Hindu Nationalism: The Supreme Court of India and the rise of Hindutva'
    Register here: http://legalhistoryblog.blogspot.com/2019/11/cambridge-legal-and-social-history.html

    Nuffield Historical Social Mobility Seminar – Michaelmas 2020

    Convenors: Per Engzell (Oxford) Giacomo Gabbuti (Oxford) Juliana Jaramillo-Echeverri (LSE) Time: London Venue: Online at https://lse.zoom.us/j/89404010816
        • October 21, 2020, 17:30 - 19:00: - Juliana Jaramillo-Echeverri (London School of Economics): "Surnames, Status and Schools: A Long-term View of the Social Ladder in Colombia" with Andrés Álvarez (Universidad de los Andes) - Benjamin Milner (University of Alberta): "The Impact of State-Provided Education: Evidence from the 1870 Education Act" - Zach Ward (Baylor University): "Intergenerational Mobility in AmericanHistory: Accounting for Race and Measurement Error"
        • November 4, 2020, 10:00 - 11.30: - Cameron Campbell (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology): "Family Background, Exam Performance, and the Appointment and Promotion of Qing Civil Officials, 1830-1912" - Giulia Corti (University of Trento): "Marriage choices and Social Homogamy through 19th and 20th centuries: the case of Milan" - Martin Hällsten (Stockholm University): "The Shadow of Peasant Past: Seven Generations of Inequality Persistence in Northern Sweden,” with Martin Kolk
        • November 18, 2020, 17:30 - 19:00: - Tymofii Brik (Kyiv School of Economics): "Occupational Status Attainment During Modernization: What Was the Role of Religion?" with Ineke Maas and Marco van Leeuwen (Utrecht University) - Matilde P. Machado (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid): "The Role of Mothers on Female Labor Force Participation: An Approach Using Historical Parish Records" with Jesus Carro and Ricardo Mora - Jan Stuhler (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid): "Name-Based Estimators of Intergenerational Mobility" with Torsten Santavirta (Stockholm University)
        • December 2, 2020, 17:30 - 19:00: - Naim Bro (Millennium Institute Foundational Research on Data, Santiago): "Ethnic Endogamy and Jewish Income Attainment: A Longitudinal Analysis of Jewish Last Names in Chile" with Liran Morav (University of Cambridge) - Chris Minns (London School of Economics): "When Did the American Dream Move North? Intergenerational Mobility in Canada, 1871–1901" with Kris Inwood (University of Guelph) and Fraser Summerfield (St Francis Xavier University) - Sonia Schifano (University of Luxembourg): "The Permanence of Concentrated Property Ownership Amidst Economic Transformation: Social Mobility in Dudelange, Luxembourg (1766–1872)"
        • December 16, 2020, 17:30 - 19:00: - Kasey Buckles (University of Notre Dame): "Family Trees and Falling Apples: Intergenerational Mobility Estimates from U.S. Genealogy Data" with Joseph Price - Santiago Pérez (UC Davis): "Who Benefits from Meritocracy?" with Diana Moreira (UC Davis) - Erik Wang (Institute for Advanced Study in Toulouse): “Offspring as Rents? Intergenerational Immobility in a Multi-ethnic Ruling Coalition of Medieval China” with Joy Chen (Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business) & Xiaoming Zhang (HKU)

    ARA Section for Archives and Museums Half-day Training Workshop (via Zoom): 9.30am-12.30pm (GMT), Friday 20th November 2020 Trainer: Anita Hollinshead

          • The ARA Section for Archives and Museums is running a half-day workshop on caring for small and medium sized object collections. The workshop will explore how to minimise the risk of damaging collections and injuring staff, volunteers and visitors through safe object handling, packing, moving and storage.
    Delegates will, through a combination of slides and practical demonstrations, learn about potential hazards in collections, protective clothing and equipment, condition checking, assessing and mitigating risk and how to choose the most appropriate materials for packing, storage and display purposes. How to safely handle a range of different materials and object types will also be covered. By the end of the session, delegates will be able to safely and confidently handle and store the objects in their care, preserving their physical condition and improving their usability for research and exhibition purposes. Freelance museum consultant Anita Hollinshead leads this three hour training session, which will include a Q&A surgery session inviting attendees to submit specific questions in advance relating to the objects in their care. The event has been tailored for people involved in collections care at all levels and across different sectors, including archives, museums, conservation and libraries. No prior experience in museum collections management is required, making it ideal for trainees and for more experienced heritage, library and information professionals wanting to diversify their collection care skills. This event would also be an excellent follow-up for those who attended SAM’s sell-out Museum Collections Management for Archivists training days in 2018/19. Delegates will receive links to sources of further information and notes on the topics covered by the presentation, including a summary of the Q&A portion. Short films of the practical demonstrations will be available via the ARA website for all attendees. Register here: https://www.archives.org.uk/events/viewevent/483-ara-section-for-specialist-repositories-training-day-and-agm-mon-13-may-2019.html

    National Archives: Discovery and Manage your Collections

    The National Archives will be holding a webinar on Discovery and Manage Your Collections on Tuesday 24th November (10:30am-12pm) for archives who are interested in learning more about publishing collections information to Discovery or managing existing collections information they already have on Discovery. The workshop will include an overview of Discovery and a demo of MYC’s functionality, with a Q&A at the end. Event and registration details can be found on Eventbrite at https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/manage-your-collections-in-discovery-webinar-tickets-126537002581 Launched in 2017, Manage Your Collections allows archives to publish and edit their collections information directly into Discovery. MYC can be used as the primary means of getting collections data online or as a second point of access. With the release of MYC, archives now the ability to access and update their catalogue data already on Discovery that was contributed during the A2A project. Any questions or queries or if you can't make the date of this webinar but would be interested in similar future events, please email the MYC team at manageyourcollections@nationalarchives.gov.uk.

    Digital Shift Forum seminars (Research Libraries UK) - #RLUKDSF

    RLUK’s Digital Shift Forum brings together colleagues from across the information, research, cultural and heritage communities, and third and commercial sectors, to discuss the future of the digital shift in collections, services, and audiences. These monthly seminars include high-profile international speakers, from a wide variety of backgrounds and professions, who are at the forefront of current thinking around the digital shift. They provide time and space for wide-ranging, inter-disciplinary discussions regarding the future of the digital shift and provide a springboard for cross-sector collaboration. The Digital Shift Forum is open to all, and you do not need to belong to an RLUK member institution to attend or participate. Recordings of previous seminars are available on the RLUK website. Link for registering to the next ones are here: https://www.rluk.ac.uk/dsf/
        • 16 December, 14:00 – 15:00 (GMT): Building digital skills for now and the future Tiina Hill, Senior Manager, Arts Council England, and James Akers, Arts Council England Tech Champion for data analytics. The pandemic as a catalyst for change or a temporary digital fix? Tiina and James will offer an overview of emerging trends before and after lockdown in how the arts cultural sector is shifting to working more digitally and challenges around digital integration and transformation. They will provide an outline of the Digital Culture Network, where it started from, and the work of its team of 9 specialist “on the ground” Tech Champions in building digital skills and capacity across the sector. Tiina and James will also reflect on the demand for its support offer, provide insights and examples from working with people across the sector, and give an outline of Arts Council England’s 10 Year Strategy in supporting sector survival and resilience.
        • 20 January 2021, 14:00 – 15:00 (GMT): Managing digital in a time of accelerating change John Stack, Digital Director, Science Museum Group Museums, galleries, libraries and archives operate at their touch points with their audiences. Historically, the museum experience has begun and ended with the entry and exit of a physical visit. In the digital age, digital channels are a component of all visits, and increasingly visits are digital-only experiences. Digital provides galleries, libraries, archives and museums, new ways to fulfil their missions through increased reach, enhanced experiences and deeper engagement. However, the digital landscape and audience behaviour continues to evolve rapidly presenting the challenge of how to keep up with ever-changing digital technologies and audience expectations. This talk will explore the ways in which digital might be deployed to achieve the right mix of sustainable long-term solutions, and experiments and exploration of emerging technologies.

    The Archive-Skills Consultancy Online Courses. 28 January-10 February 2021

    Financial History Seminar – Lent and Easter 2021

    The Centre for Financial History at Darwin College has released the programme for the Financial History Seminar (Lent and Easter 2021). The seminar will take place on Zoom at 5pm unless otherwise stated with the recording subsequently available on the Centre for Financial History website. The link will be circulated before each seminar. You can register here: http://talks.cam.ac.uk/show/index/20854
        • 1 February 2021: Professor Charles Goodhart (LSE) and Dr Manoj Pradhan (Talking Heads Macro) The Great Demographic Reversal: ageing societies, waning inequality, and an inflation
        • 15 February 2021: Dr Peter Sloman (University of Cambridge) Menus without prices? Manifestos, party competition, and public finance in Britain, c. 1955-1983
        • 1 March 2021: William Allen (NIESR) Poland, the international monetary system and the Bank of England, 1921–1939
        • 15 March 2021: Dr Eleanor Hallam (HM Treasury) HM Treasury and its management of the Financial Crisis, 2007-2009
        • 3 May 2021: Dr Jenny Pleinen (German Historical Institute, London) The landed gentry in British politics after World War II: from taxed decadence to subsidized cultural heritage
    The seminar is generously supported by the Trevelyan Fund and the Centre for Risk Studies.

    Coping with Disasters. 200 years of international official lending

    4 February 2021, 12.00 – 12.45 CET, on zoom eabh in conversation with Christoph Trebesch (Kiel Institute for the World Economy). They will debate 200 years of international official lending: characteristics, occurrence and determinants. Is there insight to be found for current day policy makers?

    International Macro History Online Seminar Series 2021

    17 February to 12 May 2021, every Wednesday at 17 CET, on zoom The spring 2021 sessions of the International Macro History Online Seminar will run from 17 February to 12 May 2021 and will take place virtually every Wednesday at 17:00 (Geneva time). The seminars will run for 60 minutes with an extra optional 15 minutes for further discussion. Programme:
    • 17 February 2021: The Great Demographic Reversal: Ageing Societies, Waning Inequality, and an Inflation Revival, Charles Goodhart and Manoj Pradhan
    • 24 February 2021: It Takes Money to Make MPs: New Evidence from 150 Years of British Campaign Spending, Julia Cagé and Edgard Dewitte
    • 3 March 2021: Why is Europe Less Unequal than the United States?, Thomas Blanchet, Amory Gethin and Lucas Chancel
    • 10 March 2021: Selective Default Risk: Evidence from the German Default of the 1930s, Olivier Accominotti, Thilo Albers and Kim Oosterlinck
    • 17 March 2021: The Economic Impact of the Black Death, Remi Jedwab, Noel Johnson and Mark Koyama
    • 24 March 2021: State Capacity and the Rise and Fall of Serfdom in Europe, Tracy Dennison
    • 31 March 2021: Blowing Against the Wind ? A Narrative Approach to Central bank Foreign Exchange Intervention, Alain Naef
    • 7 April 2021: Spring Break
    • 14 April 2021: Hollowing out the State: Franchise Expansion and Fiscal Capacity in Colonial India, Pavithra Suryanarayan
    • 21 April 2021: The Real Effects of Bank Runs. Evidence from the French Great Depression (1930-1931), Eric Monnet, Angelo Riva and Stefano Ungaro
    • 28 April 2021: Banking crises interventions, 1290-2018, Andrew Metrick and Paul Schmelzing
    • 5 May 2021: Assignats or Death: Inflationary Finance in Revolutionary France, Bryan Cutsinger, Joshua Ingber and Louis Rouanet
    • 12 May 2021: The Economic Consequences of Sir Robert Peel: A Quantitative Assessment of the Repeal of the Corn Laws, Doug Irwin and Maksym Chepeliev
    Detailed programme and more info: https://cepr.org/imhos https://www.graduateinstitute.ch/research-centres/centre-finance-and-development/conference-papers Register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_DlhUutp0S7GhwrWsY0NVPQ

    Dissertation Showcase #1 by ARA Section for New Professionals

    25 March 2021, 13:00 – 14:30 GMT, online This series of showcases will hear from New Professionals about research they have carried out during their archive and information management studies. The topics within this series are varied and interesting. These events are open to all as we believe this a great opportunity for both new professionals and the wider field to hear about research, surveys and studies that have happened over the past few years. During the first event on March 25th, we will be hearing from:
    • Jennifer Pearson: Assessing the “Quiet” Archivist Persona : How Archival Studies and Knowledge Management Practitioners Describe the Value of Research.
    • Karen McFarlane: “How do U.K. archivists perceive ‘white supremacy’ in the U.K. archives sector?
    • Elizabeth Murray-Smith: ''The Archiving of Police Records"
    • Max Parkin: "The social function of archives can be used to help tackle loneliness."
    • Lucy Janes and Katie MacDonald: "Archives and Remembrance: reconsidering archiving practices: using the First World War Centenary as a lens to critically examine archiving practice"
    Register here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/dissertation-showcase-1-tickets-142083980009

    RLUK's Digital Shift Forum next appointments: Libraries, Readers, and Digital Distraction; Digital poverty, inclusion, and the role of research libraries

    5 May 2021, 14:00 – 15:00 (BST): Libraries, Readers, and Digital Distraction: Tyler Shores, ThinkLab Manager, University of Cambridge This talk will explore some of the ways in which digital engagement is more important than ever before for libraries. User attention and distraction are not so either/or as they might at first seem – and Tyler will explore issues about reading and online habits and behaviours in ways that might challenge some common assumptions. In addition, the seminar will provide the opportunity to discuss what works in a constantly evolving online and social media environment, based on research and best practices. This should be a highly interactive session and @tylershores will post updates and links the week before the event. 19 May 2021, 14.00-16.00 (BST): Digital poverty, inclusion, and the role of research libraries: a cross-sector international symposium This symposium will take a holistic, cross-sector, and international look at the issues of digital poverty and exclusion, and the role of society, higher-education, libraries, and research libraries in particular, in combating these challenges. It will do this through a facilitated conversation between discussants and audience members. It will be highly interactive and delegates are encouraged to actively participate in it discussions both on screen and via chat. Discussants include: Catherine Mills, Head of Digital Social Inclusion, The Good Things Foundation Hannah Holmes, Research Associate, Centre for Planning and Housing Research, University of Cambridge Christopher Hale, Director of Policy, Universities UK Sue Williamson, Director of Libraries, Arts Council England Trevor Dawes, Vice Provost for Libraries and Museums and May Morris University Librarian, University of Delaware Joe Lucia, Dean of Temple University Libraries, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania This symposium will be chaired and facilitated by: Kirsty Lingstadt, Head of Digital Library and Deputy Director of Libraries and Archives, University of Edinburgh, and Michelle Blake, Director of Libraries and Archives (interim), University of York. Both Kirsty and Michelle are members of RLUK’s Digital Shift working group. Links to register here: https://www.rluk.ac.uk/dsf/

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You can filter results by type of digital object you are interested in:

  • Text: most documental material, such as administrative records, letters, manuscripts etc.
  • Image: includes photographs, posters, maps.
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You can filter results based on the date of creation of the archival material (which may differ from the time period you are interested in - e.g., philosophers from the Enlightenment period reflecting on classic thinkers)

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You can filter results based on the date of creation of the archival material (which may differ from the time period you are interested in - e.g., philosophers from the Enlightenment period reflecting on classic thinkers). This filter will only include materials with "Full dates", i.e. those that include date information available for date-based searches. You can either search for a specific date of interest or focus step by step on the time span of a century, decade, year or month. When searching for a specific date, enter the date in the format DD-MM-YYYY, i.e. 01/01/1900 for 1 January 1900, via the calendar function or by typing directly in the text field.
This filter concentrates on the earliest dates mentioned in the materials.

You can filter results based on the date of creation of the archival material (which may differ from the time period you are interested in - e.g., philosophers from the Enlightenment period reflecting on classic thinkers). This filter will only include materials with "Full dates", i.e. those that include date information available for date-based searches. You can either search for a specific date of interest or focus step by step on the time span of a century, decade, year or month. When searching for a specific date, enter the date in the format DD-MM-YYYY, i.e. 01/01/1900 for 1 January 1900, via the calendar function or by typing directly in the text field.
This filter concentrates on the latest dates mentioned in the materials.

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You can filter results by selecting where your search terms appears specifically inside the archival description:

  • The name can be the full name of a person, family or organisation as well as only parts of it, e.g. only the last name.
  • The identifier is used internally by the institution or refers to (inter)national vocabularies such as the Virtual International Authority File (VIAF).
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  • The occupation is the profession or job of a person
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  • The function is an activity, role, or purpose performed or manifested by a person, family or organisation

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You can filter results by type of entities:

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You can filter results based on the type of holding institution. Please note that this filter will only include institutions, for which a type has been provided as part of their descriptions.

  • A business archive holds the records of (often) commercial organisations.
  • A church or religious archive holds the records of church parishes or religious organisations, e.g. birth or death registers.
  • A county or local authority archive holds the records of the county's administrative bodies.
  • A media archive holds audiovisual or sound records, e.g. a film archive or the archive of a broadcasting company.
  • A municipal archive holds the records of a town or city administration.
  • A national archive holds the records of a country's administrative bodies, i.e. from ministries and other public bodies, sometimes also private papers of former ministers, chancellors, or presidents.
  • A private person or family archive holds the records forming the legacy of a prominent person or family.
  • A regional archive holds the records of a region's administrative bodies.
  • A specialised governmental archive holds records of public bodies, often operating on a national level, that are not part of the national archives' holdings.
  • A specialised non-governmental archive or archive of another cultural heritage institution hold collections from various cultural heritage institutions, eg. museum archives, libraries archives, etc
  • A university archive or archive of another research organisation holds the records pertaining to the administration of the according educational or research body.
  • Political parties, popular/labour movements and other non-governmental organisations, associations, agencies and foundations hold the archival collections of these institutions, outside of governmental records and outside of business archives (e.g., NGOs)

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