Les conversations entre les militaires franquistes et les gouvernements républicains en exil, septembre 1946 - avril 1947 by Bruno Vargas

“…This article will firstly present the factual content of the archives before setting out an analysis of the factors contributing to the failure of the Spanish Republican forces in exile.…”
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Évaluer, inventorier, exploiter : le Rotulus de denariis de l’abbaye Saint-Étienne de Caen (XIIIe siècle) by Thomas Jarry

“…The Archives départementales of Calvados possess, amongst the collection of the former abbey of Sain-Etienne at Caen, a roll of damaged parchment of which the contents date back to the early thirteenth century. …”
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La criminalité à Londres au xixe siècle : le cas des cambriolages chez les particuliers by Tri Tran

“…However, official statistics tend to show that this impression was not grounded and that crime was contained by the police and the courts after the early 1840s, although the population of London was expanding. Using unpublished archives e.g. Parliamentary Papers, Home Office records, and Sessions’ Papers of the Central Criminal Court, this contribution attempts to assess the extent of robberies, the character of the criminals and their treatment by the judicial system.…”
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Polyphonies coloniales by Caroline Déodat

“…Thus, using the concept of polyphony is heuristic in order to show the irreducibly indexical dimension of this social practice — a poetic, musical and danced ritual — in that it refers to other discourses that have preceded it in history and belong to other enunciative times and spaces — i.e., the archives of the slavery and colonial period.…”
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The Intimate Picture of Queen Victoria and her Household, 1840–1843. Extracts from the Diary of Dr Robert Ferguson, the Queen’s Accoucheur by Mariusz Misztal

“…Acquired only in 2009, the diary is housed in the archives of the Royal College of Physicians in London. …”
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Migrating mistakes of the publication history of the magazine „Moteris" by Genovaitė Burneikienė

“… Analyzing the history of Lithuanian periodicals presents many difficulties due to the lack of sources, archives, and memoirs concerning Lithuanian newspapers. …”
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Solidaridad antifascista francesa y Octubre de 1934 by Roberto Ceamanos Llorens

“…All this from the analysis of different primary sources, especially the Archives of the border French departments for the conviction of the value of the information they provide, combined with the archive of Paris área. …”
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Esquisser un avenir sans drogue en détention préventive (Genève, 1970-1980)  by Mirjana Farkas, Cristina Ferreira

“…Arrested and remanded in custody during the 1970s and 1980s, young drug addicts have left behind poignant writings. Preserved in the archives of the Institute of Legal Medicine in Geneva, these documents were produced at a time when drugs were becoming a major public problem. …”
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De la Sorbonne à l’Asie. Routes orientalistes d'Ena Bazin-Foucher (1889-1952) by Annick Fenet

“…This article follows the life of  Eugénie Bazin-Foucher, wife of the French indianist Alfred Foucher (1865-1952): her higher education in Paris ; her encounter with her future husband,  a teacher at the Sorbonne University ; their marriage in Ceylan in 1919 ; their eight years of travel (until 1926) in archaeological and scientific missions in India, Persia, Afghanistan and the Far East ;  and finally their Parisian life until their death. The couple's archives allow one to reconstruct Eugénie's participation in the work of her husband as well as shedding light on  her personality, her scientific aspirations and her originality in the intellectual world of the Interwar period.…”
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Les photographies de l’ethnologie : objets exposés, objets projetés by Anaïs Mauuarin, Carine Peltier-Caroff

“…There being innumerable photographic collections in anthropological institutions and in researchers’ private archives, the article aims to shed light on one singular dimension of French ethnology’s historical relationship with this medium. …”
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Raisonner sur l’absence. Prospections géophysiques croisées au prieuré grandmontain d’Époisses à Bretenière (Côte-d’Or) by Marion Foucher, Ronan Steinmann

“…In 2017, while a reorganisation project of the INRAE’s experimental unit in Époisses-Bretenières (Côte-d’Or) was under study, the former priory belonging to the order of Grandmont has been the object of a research campaign crossing medieval and modern archives, built remains and geophysical surveys. The main purpose aimed the reconstruction of the medieval priory and the different spaces organized around the cloister, starting from the only preserved remains of its chapter house. …”
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Records in Contexts jako model związków encji by Krzysztof Stencel

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Les affiches de la lutte contre le sida by Alexandre Klein, Gabriel Girard

“…Among these productions, the posters occupy a special place as they characterized – one thinks only of the famous Silence = Death of the eponymous collective which alone embodies the epidemic and its political issues – both the prevention strategy against HIV and related socio-political mobilizations. These full-fledged archives thus offer a unique perspective on the course of the epidemic, but also on the involvement of different actors – governmental, community, or associative – in the fight against the virus. …”
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Le climat est-il une ressource ? Perspectives historiques à partir de la conception bioclimatique en architecture by Clément Gaillard

“…Based on the study of archives and interviews with architects and engineers, it shows the way in which this method of design has historically been structured from the idea that the climate gathers a set of potentially useful energy resources. …”
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Réseaux catholiques féminins. Une perspective de genre sur une mobilisation transnationale. by Magali Della Sudda

“…The main source material comes from the rich documentation of the Vatican's Secret Archives, namely, for the period under consideration, the extraordinary ecclesiastical affairs collection, that the Secretary of State and that of the Nunciature in France. …”
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La légende Caravage. Vie et œuvre de l’artiste, entre fantasmes et réalités by Natacha Aprile

“…Despite the testimony left in the archives, Caravaggio’s homosexuality is still ignored or understated. …”
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La prostitution à Beyrouth sous le mandat français (1920-1943) by Nessim Znaien

“…This article uses administrative archives and medical sources to examine the phenomenon of prostitution in Beyrouth during the French Mandate between 1923 and 1946. …”
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Retour sur Manuel Núñez de Arenas (1886-1951). Notes pour une biographie by Jean-Louis Guereña

“…We then briefly indicate some of the documentary sources which we have at our disposal on our character, his archives, his library and his correspondence, as well as some indications on his own publications, in particular his numerous collaborations in the periodical press. …”
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Devenir auxiliaire de puériculture en 1950 : parcours de formation des premières élèves de l’École de Bron by Zoé Poli

“…Based on the exceptional conservation of the archives of the Bron School, in the suburbs of Lyon, this article proposes to reconstruct the training path of the first childcare assistant students. …”
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Les frères Courret : reconstruction d’un parcours familial entre la France et le Pérou au XIXe siècle by Isabelle Tauzin Castellanos

“…New information is provided on the civil status of the Courret family as well as on the return to France from 1892 onwards by consulting of departmental and municipal archives in addition to Peruvian sources. Relations with two other French photographers, the precursor Eugène Maunoury and the successor Adolphe Dubreuil are also described when Peru enjoyed the prosperity of the guano and was then fell victim to the crisis that lasted until the end of the 19th century.…”
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