Quotes Tagged With :archives

Historical gap is created due to missing written records.

Let us save what remains: not by vaults and locks which fence them from the public eye and use in consigning....

You can tell a lot about an area from its library, and I'd never discount the usefulness of town archives.....

Our archives are treasure troves - a testament to many lives lived and the complexity of the way we move....

Without archives many stories of real people would be lost, and along with those stories, vital clues....

Even if we have bad feelings about our past and it causes a sense of alienation, it belongs to our history.....

Dipping into the archive is always an interesting, if sometimes unsettling, proposition. It often begins....

I've found myself moved by letters and diaries in archives as well as trashy, summer blockbusters. It's....

We are the only species on the planet, so far as we know, to have invented a communal memory stored neither....

Social and cultural history is often comprised of whatever diaries and letters remain and that is down....