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Guildhall Library Publications, in association with the Centre for
Metropolitan History, is pleased to announce that the proceedings of the
ARCHIVES AND THE METROPOLIS conference are now available [xiv + 210 pp
fully illustrated, ISBN 0 900422 45 9]. They have been edited for
publication by M.V. Roberts, formerly Deputy Director of Libraries and Art
Galleries, Corporation of London.The price is L13.99- see order form at the
end of this communication.
The conference, sponsored by the Corporation of London and the Centre for
Metropolitan History (Institute of Historical Research), was held in the
City of London in July 1996. It gave for perhaps the first time an overview
of the documentary riches of some of the greatest cities in the world, from
Europe to the Far East, from North Africa to the New World.
AMSTERDAM - ANCIENT ATHENS - BARCELONA - BRAZIL - BUDAPEST - CAIRO - CHICAGO
- GENOA - LONDON - LUBECK - MADRID - MARSEILLES - MOSCOW - NEW YORK - PARIS
- SAO PAULO - SEVILLE - STOCKHOLM - TOKYO - VENICE - VIENNA
The conference papers, outlined below, include:- individual municipal
archives from ancient times to the present; the development of
record-keeping and archive buildings; archaeological archives; medical
archives; and the use of municipal archives for large-scale research
projects. The papers have been revised and augmented by the authors, and
will be a standard work for historians, archivists and students for many
years to come.
LIST OF CONTENTS, WITH DETAILS OF CONTRIBUTORS:
Introduction, Dr Derek Keene (Director of the Centre for Metropolitan
History, Institute of Historical Research, University of London)
1. Metropolitan Archives, Ancient to Modern-
Dr Rosalind Thomas (Lecturer in History, Royal Holloway, University of
London) "Archives in the ancient world: record-keeping, documents and the
'stone archives' of the Greeks"
Dr Thomas Behrmann (Westfalische Wilhelms-Universitat, Munster) "Genoa and
Lubeck: the beginnings of communal record-keeping in two medieval trading
metropolises"
Dr Ferdinand Opll (Direktor, Wiener Stadt- und Landesarchivs) "The memory of
a City: the Vienna municipal archives from the thirteenth to the twentieth
century"
Dr Miguel-Angel Ladero Quesada (Catedratico de Historia Medieval,
Universidad Complutense, Madrid) "Three examples of Spanish metropolitan
archives: Barcelona, Seville, Madrid"
M Francois Gasnault (Directeur des Archives de Paris) "Les Archives de
Paris: mutilation, demembrement, recomposition"
2. Non Municipal Archives-
Mr Edwin Green (Archivist, Midland Bank plc) "Business archives: a sleeping
giant of metropolitan history"
Dr Nick Merriman (formerly Head of the Department of Early London History
and Collections, Museum of London, now Institute of Archaeology, University
of London) "Records of metropolitan archaeology: unwanted residues or
primary sources?"
Dr Christopher Hilton (Assistant Curator of Western Manuscripts, Wellcome
Institute for the History of Medicine) "The stethoscope, the sewer and the
patent pill: medical records of the metropolis"
3. Medieval and Early Modern London-
Professor Geoffrey Martin (formerly Keeper of the Public Records of England)
"Records and record-keeping in medieval London"
Dr Vanessa Harding (Senior Lecturer in London History, Birkbeck College,
University of London) "From compact city to complex metropolis: records for
the history of London, 1500-1720"
4. Buildings, Furnishing and Use-
Dr Claudia Salmini (Archivio di Stato di Venezia) "Buildings, furnishing,
access and use: examples from the archive of the Venetian Chancery, from
medieval to modern times"
Mme Danielle Benazzouz (Directeur Adjoint, Archives Municipales de
Marseille) "Les archives de la ville de Marseille, problematique d_un site"
Mr Andras J. Horvath (Archivist and historian at Budapest City Archives)
"Planning a new home for the Budapest City archives"
5. Metropolitan History from the Archives-
Dr Renate Banik-Schweitzer (Project Manager and co-editor, Historical Atlas
of Vienna and the Austrian Atlas of Historic Towns, Wiener Stadt- und
Landesarchivs) "The Historical Atlas of Vienna as part of the Vienna History
Project"
Professor Lars Nilsson (Professor of Urban History and Director of the
Swedish Institute of Urban History, Stockholm University) "Stockholm 2002:
how to write a City biography"
Dr David Kynaston (Historian and author of a trilogy, now two-thirds
completed, on the City of London between 1815 and 1986) "A financial
metropolis: the City of London, 1815-1986"
6. Asia, Africa and the Americas-
Dr Tamotsu Kumai (Associate Professor of History, Tokyo Kasei Gakuin
University) "Tokyo metropolitan archives and historiography"
Dr Clifton Hood (Assistant Professor of History, Hobart and William Smith
Colleges, New York State) "The fragmented past: archives in New York City,
1804-1996"
Dr John Daly (Director, Illinois State Archives) "Archives in Chicago?"
Professor Ana Maria de Almeida Camargo (Professor of History in the
University of Sao Paulo, Brazil) "Metropolitan archives in federative
countries: the case of Brazil"
Professor Raouf Abbas (Professor of Modern History, American University in
Cairo) "Cairo: its archives and history"
7. The Port of London: Archives and History-
Mr Robert Aspinall (Librarian and Archivist, Museum of London Docklands
Library and Archive) "_Liquid history_: the archive of the Port of London
Authority"
Mr Peter Guillery (Researcher and writer, Royal Commission on the Historical
Monuments of England) "Using the Port of London Authority archive for
engineering and architectural history"
Dr Sarah Palmer (Senior Lecturer in History, Queen Mary College, University
of London) "Using the Port of London Authority archive for commercial
history"
8. Metropolitan Archives in a Changing World-
Mr Vladimir A. Manykin (First Deputy Director, Moscow City Association of
Archives) "Moscow: the metropolitan archive and political change"
Dr Jan Boomgaard (Director of the General State Archives in the Hague) "The
metropolitan archive in the twentieth century: the appraisal and destruction
of files"
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