Recovered Voices, Newfound Questions: Family archives and historical research
Year: 2019
Type: book
Abstract: The book aims at presenting less known or completly unknown family archives. It proposes to question them and to analyze them under new perspectives (both from history and archival science), in order to found the "voices" if its producers - and thus to develop new research questions. It comprises three parts: "Recovering, reconstructing and (re)discovering family and personal archives"; "From a social, political and cultural history of the families to a social history of the archives"; "Public preservation and promotion of family and personal archives".
Authors: Maria de Lurdes Rosa, Rita Sampaio da Nóvoa, Alice Borges Gago, Maria João Andrade e Sousa
Institutions: Instituto de Estudos Medievais, CHAM - Centro de Humanidades
Language: English
Subfield: Conservation
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W3008798990