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Focuses on archive resources of Zionism and Israel. History of Zionism; Most important collection of printed material about Jews and Israel; Collection of the oral history of Zionism at the Institute of Contemporary Jewry of the Hebrew University.

John Peet was the most important interlocutor between Britain and the German Democratic Republic (GDR). Through his journal, Democratic German Report ( DGR), which he edited between 1952 and 1975, Peet had considerable influence among left-of-centre public opinion in Britain. His positive portrayal of the GDR was among the GDR's most believable and powerful propaganda in Britain. This articles reassesses Peet's decision to live and work in the GDR and his subsequent disillusionment with ‘really existing socialism’ in eastern Europe. Making use of Peet's personal papers and the archival holdings about Peet located in various German archives, the article presents Peet as a ‘liberal communist’ who was deeply influenced in his political choices by his experiences in inter-war Britain and by his fight against fascism in Spain. Although he came to dislike many things about the GDR, his loyalty to the ideals of communism always remained stronger than his desire to criticize the eastern European dictatorships. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article explores the ongoing preservation efforts of The St. John Fundraising and Preservation Committee at St. John Missionary Baptist Church (SJMBC). The church, founded in 1869 by former slaves, is located in Fort Bend County, Texas, a county which held the second‐largest slave population in the state in 1860. SJMBC sought to develop an archive of historical records to narrate St. John's early history, particularly at sites it intersected with the history of Fort Bend County, Missouri City, and the Dew Brothers plantation during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Because the majority of the church records were lost in a fire in 2006, Friends of St. John needed to locate other sites in the archive where the church's presence and significance were recorded. They recruited researchers, public scholars and architects and developed relationships with nearby universities and churches to aid in their mission. Highlighting several types of source materials such as a slaver's account book, maps, census, deed, and school records and tax assessments held by the county, SJMBC established a historical narrative of the church through a calculated juxtaposition to well‐established historical narratives of significant white people and events in the county. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Presents the lecture delivered by Keith Robbins at the 75th Anniversary Conference of the Historical Association on April 1981 in Edinburgh, Scotland. Curiosity on the hesitation of historians about its own history; Proposition that there should be a historical association and that it should be responsible for a journal; Steps being undertaken to constitute, and then place in some suitable repository, an archive of the association.