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Abstract: Starting from Igbo Landing, site of an 1803 slave rebellion off coastal Georgia, this article compares written and folkloric accounts to question the status of the archive in early [...]

Alixa Naff collected a massive body of information on the Arabic-speaking immigrants driven by a conviction that their stories deserved and needed to be roped into a coherent narrative. The [...]

The positive valuation of theatre as live performance, and therefore also its transience, is frequently accompanied by the urgent expression of the need to counter that transience by means of documentation. This desire to `save' theatre reaches its most fervent expression (and hope of authority and permanence) with the live performance archive. Archive theory, however, now insists on the instability and uncertainty of the archive, which not only documents but also constructs its subject. In this article, Matthew Reason argues that, by tracing comparisons between archives and human memory, it is possible to establish a new formulation of the archive--as detritus, not completeness--that puts a value on mutability as a reflection of theatre's liveness. Matthew Reason is currently completing a PhD on representations of live performance at the University of Edinburgh. He has edited a special edition of the Edinburgh Review (ER 106) on Theatre in Scotland, and has previously worked at the Edinburgh International Festival, where his responsibilities included maintaining the archive.

The most important elements in English Studies are Story and Archive, and these must be carried intact to the 21st century by being correctly integrated with hypermedia. The best way to achieve this state is to balance disciplinary design and disciplined design.

When I began my research on Sarawak history in 1973 I naturally expected that I would find most of my materials in Sarawak. Such was the reputation of the Sarawak [...]

After the archival deposits of the Communist International organization (Comintern) became available in 1991 the way it is seen has changed. Researchers in one approach have sought to take new archival material as a foundation for a history of the rituals and mentalities which were in the Comintern and Stalinism. The organizational structure of the Comintern is better understood, as is the authority it possessed and how that was exerted. Biographies of leaders in the Executive Committee of the Communist International (ECCI) are now better known. It can be seen now that Moscow has been important in national parties of the world.

The location and identification of archival sources for research in child welfare is complicated because of their diversity and lack of uniformity, but various access points are available. These include social welfare histories, documentary histories, annotated bibliographies, directories of archives, journal articles, oral histories, social agencies, abstracts, indexes, reference guides, and electronic services. The advice of colleagues and librarians can also be sought in identifying and selecting archival sources for the purpose of research.

There is convincing evidence to prove that the Sentencia de Toledo, a bifolium paper document included in the collection of the Hispanic Society of America, is inauthentic. The Sentencia Toledo is supposed to convey the proceedings of a trial conducted by Alfonso VI of Castile and Leon upon Cid's request. However, the document was obviously fabricated in defense of the Infantes de Carrion. Cid's character was questioned and it was implied that he was a bastard in the Sentencia de Toledo.

The social research organisation, Mass-Observation, which operated between 1937 and 1950, recruited volunteer writers to join a 'panel' to record aspects of their everyday life in Britain during those years. In 1981, the Archive which houses that material (diaries, detailed questionnaire replies) initiated a revival of the panel. This article describes this revival and argues that the contemporary writing for the Archive can be considered a form of autobiography, providing the definition of autobiography is broadly defined to include a wide variety of forms of self-expression and writings about self in a social context. Furthermore, the desire to be a contemporary Mass-Observer demands that a new genre be forged which draws on the writer's experience of other similar forms of written expression and which evolves as a result of a process of negotiation within a specific relationship with the Archive.

The 'violence of the archive' or the function of the archive in presenting an illusion of the whole information while suppressing the information left outside it is discussed.

The archive has become an increasingly attractive place to pursue research work in cultural studies, which often serves to conceal its flaws. Its undeniable allure obscures the contingency of its construction, its destructive powers and the way in which its contents remain vulnerable to interpretative violence.

The story of the Rokarhr Family Archive, one of the major private archives of opera scores and ephemera in the United States are described.

Forensic archaeology has assumed great importance in wake of the destruction of man and material caused by modern day wars. , Anil's Ghost, dubbed an archive of bones, is a good example highlighting this fact.