To celebrate International Archives Week 2023 we have a selection of free to read articles from our archiving journals, including a selection of articles from Archives selected by the journal's Editor, Ruth Paley. We are also pleased to announce that the latest issue of Comma (2021,1) (Editors-in-chief Frans Smit and Bethany Anderson) has been made free to read throughout June to celebrate the 75th Anniversary of the ICA.
Determinism and Enlightenment: the collaboration of Diderot and d’Holbach
Ruggero Sciuto’s Determinism and Enlightenment: the collaboration of Diderot and d’Holbach is the April volume in the Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment series. This book examines the theory of determinism jointly put forward by Diderot and d’Holbach to better understand their philosophy as well as their position relative both to one another and to the so-called ‘Radical Enlightenment’. In this blog … Continue reading
“A word on Academies”: the Beat Generation writers on higher education
The Beats and the Academy: A Renegotiation - an essay collection newly published from Clemson University Press - explores the tensions between Beat writers and the academic institutions in which they studied and taught. In this blog post the volume's editors Erik Mortenson and Tony Trigilio probe our understanding of the historical tensions between these … Continue reading
Almanacs: The Smartphones of the Early Modern World
Francesco A. Morriello's Messengers of Empire: Print and Revolution in the Atlantic World is the May volume in the Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment series. This book reveals how revolution shaped the circulation of information in the Atlantic world. In this blog post, Francesco A. Morriello discusses the parallels between today's smartphones and the early modern equivalent, the … Continue reading
The Soho Manufactory, Mint and Foundry, West Midlands: Where Boulton, Watt and Murdoch made History
The Soho Manufactory, Mint and Foundry, West Midlands: Where Boulton, Watt and Murdoch made History by George Demidowicz, published by Historic England and Liverpool University Press in February 2022, provides a comprehensive analysis of the ground-breaking historic industrial complex, created to the west of Birmingham in the eighteenth century and associated with Matthew Boulton, James … Continue reading
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