A Train to Hollywood: Porno-Chic in the Polish Cinema of the Late 1980s by Karol Jachymek

“…In my article, I look at some major examples of the porno-chic trend in Polish cinema of the late 1980s and draw on the archival records from the Film Pre-Screening Commission to demonstrate how the political and cultural authorities of the time attempted to co-opt the new “western” trend to improve their standing with an increasingly irate public and to deflate the rising discontent by a supply of an attractive cultural and erotic content.…”
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Le musée de Sculpture comparée au prisme de la collection de cartes postales éditées par les frères Neurdein (1904-1915) by Dominique Jarrassé, Emmanuelle Polack

“…In putting together a collection that would comprise 1,606 postcards, the Neurdein brothers were responding to a request by the Musée de Sculpture Comparée which attested that, beyond its tourist function, the postcard was envisaged by the director, Camille Enlart, as a real instrument for the diffusion of knowledge and the management of the cast collection, or even as a miniature encyclopedia of the history of sculpture. Using archival materials, the authors reconstitute the negotiations that gave rise to this collection and examine its implications: a new visual culture was being built, each card offering a specific point of view (general views, detailed or cut-out works, clever captions, as well as errors). …”
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Women’s struggle and media reform: The Swedish Women’s Associations’ Radio Committee, 1933–1940 by Stiernstedt Fredrik

“…The analysis builds on archival material documenting the Swedish Women’s Associations’ Radio Committee, as well as secondary sources such as memoirs and newspaper materials.…”
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Srbija na istorijskoj prekretnici 1944: slom monarhista i pobeda komunističkih snaga by Nemanja Dević

“…Based on existing literature and archival sources, the paper aims to provide an overview of thesituation in Serbia in the summer and autumn of 1944 and to highlight key factors leading to the Partisan takeover.…”
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Stève Bernardin, La fabrique privée d’un problème public. La sécurité routière entre industriels et assureurs aux États-Unis (années 1920 à 2000) by Stève Bernardin

“…The study is based on a large amount of archival material and more than eighty interviews. …”
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The relationship between the palace commandant V. A. Dedyulin and the rightists: ideological unity or mutually beneficial cooperation? by M. A. Knyazev

“…The sources of the study are both published and unpublished documents, in particular, personal and business correspondence of the palace commandant from the collections of the Russian State Historical Archive. The idea of V. A. Dedyulin, established in historiography, as an ideological sympathizer of the monarchist camp is criticized and the liberal nature of the ideas of the head of the imperial guard is substantiated. …”
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Miradas cruzadas en la repatriación de saberes. El caso de las grabaciones rituales náayeri registradas por K. Th. Preuss by Margarita Valdovinos Alba

“…At the end of last century, this collection was accessible only for a specialized public in the Berlin Phonographic Archive. A large research project was conducted in order to allow access to these wax cylinders by presenting their content to Náayeri ritual experts, preparing its edition and distributing CD’s with a selection of historic chants among the members of the Náayeri community from where the recordings were originally made. …”
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Introduction: Content, Design and Structure of Major Databases with Historical Longitudinal Population Data by George Alter, Kees Mandemakers, Hélène Vézina

“…Authors were given the freedom to discuss a range of practical and technical decisions from evaluating archival sources to crowdsourcing data entry. The most common issue is nominative record linkage, but we find different choices between semi-automatic and fully automatic linkage techniques and various approaches for connecting diverse sources. …”
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Les premiers monastères d’Auvergne à la lumière de la documentation textuelle et archéologique (ve-xe siècle) : état de la question by Damien Martinez

“…The Auvergne territory offers a wealth of archival sources for the early medieval period, which allows us to perceive the vitality of monasteries within the former diocese of Clermont. …”
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Évolution des ponts et du lit mineur de la Loire, entre La Charité-sur-Loire et la Chapelle-Montlinard by Annie Dumont, Marion Foucher, Ronan Steinmann, Catherine Lavier, Philippe Moyat, Jean-Pierre Garcia

“…For this purpose, the study of archival literature (texts and maps) was combined with underwater archaeology, dendrochronology, building archaeology, and geomorphological landscape analyses. …”
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L’artisanat potier de grès et son implantation dans le Cher (xviie-milieu xixe siècle) : l’apport de la documentation écrite by Clément Rigault

“…The knowledge of the stoneware pottery craft, in the Cher’s department, suffers from a lack of archaeological and bibliographic data, especially about the count and the location of workshops.However, diversity of varied archival sources brings to be possible the realization of an accurate mapping of pottery sites and clay extraction sites. …”
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Un habitat groupé antérieur au xiie siècle préservé sous forêt : le site de Goa (Val-Suzon, Côte-d’Or) by Rémi Landois, Jean-Pierre Garcia, Amélie Quiquerez

“…These have been the subject of archaeological surveys and archival research. Through the confrontation and discussion of these data, the age and function of several structures could be determined. …”
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En mode REC[ORD]  by Jean-Jacques Castéret

“…These trajectories between two worlds, opposing town and country, capital and periphery, also take place in an in-between period that is bound to raise questions, the time of an invisible initiation (Fabre) with tape recorder in hand, of which the resulting archive and autobiographical narrative are the audible mark.…”
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TRANSNATIONAL TOURISM DEVELOPMENT: AN EARLY EPISODE FROM COLONIAL SOUTHERN AFRICA by Christian M. ROGERSON

“…The aim in this paper is to uncover an early historical example of regional tourism development which occurred in colonial Southern Africa. Using archival sources the study pinpoints the contributions of publicity material produced by South African Railways for the promotion of tourism in the territories of colonial Zimbabwe and Mozambique. …”
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Retrospective Thinking: Decolonizing Minerals at National Museums Scotland  by Georgina Grant, Ellie Swinbank

“…Case studies show that stories of the people involved in mining and manufacturing processes are absent from NMS documentation while the collectors and Museum staff loom large. Archival research can remedy this to an extent, but it is time consuming and still leaves an incomplete picture.  …”
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Sculpture as Literature and History: Captive and Captivating Venus Figures from the Greek Revolutionary Era by Gonda Van Steen

“…For lack of an ancient history of the Venus, antiquarianism, treasure-hunting, archival evidence, and Greek revolutionary history blend in the statue’s new lease on life, which is a Western afterlife in literature and legend as well as in history, from which the islanders of Milos have all but been erased. …”
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Nonprofit Neighborhoods: An Urban History of Inequality and the American State, By Claire Dunning, The University of Chicago Press, 2022 by Emily I. Nwakpuda

“…The author defends this proposition by leveraging a historical lens, archival data, and autobiographical descriptions to magnify readers' attention on the racially biased treatment of leaders, workers, and community members associated with nonprofit neighborhoods among diverse communities. …”
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Competitividad y gobernanza en el Estado Moderno: la práctica cortesana de Fernando II by Germán Gamero Igea

“…Cronicles will be used as main historical sources of this analisis but the paper will also consider archival references when necessary.…”
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Rebellious Enthusiasm, Ambivalent Forms: On Freedom and Bondage in Tyehimba Jess’s Olio by Molly McCracken

“…While Olio reifies the tension between freedom and bondage in the post-bellum nation, this paper argues that Jess’s archival recuperation of elided historical figures and innovative configuration of sonnet form demonstrate an ethos of creativity, as it envisions alternative forms of community and autonomy through poetry and music.…”
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Armenian Population in Malatia in the 16th Century According To Cadastral Registers by İlhan, Türkmen

“…Cadastral records indicate that there were Armenians in the region both in the city centre and in the villages. Upon studying archive records, it was determined that Armenians lived in the villages of the sub-districts of Malatia in widespread rural areas. …”
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