Archives and Emotions

Ilaria Scaglia is Senior Lecturer in Modern History at Aston University, UK. Valeria Vanesio is Archivist and Lecturer in Library Information and Archive Sciences at University of Malta, Malta.

Introduction: Why Worry about the Interplay of Archives and Emotions?, Ilaria Scaglia and Valeria Vanesio (Aston University, UK and University of Malta)
1. How Did We Get Here? Archival Traditions, Methodologies, and Emotions, Valeria Vanesio (University of Malta)
Part I: Emotions and the Shaping of the Archives
2. “Old World Blues:” Archivists – Keepers or Creators of Memory?, Tijana Rupcic (Central European University Vienna, Austria)
3. Sensationalism in the Archives: True Crime in the Eighteenth-Century Old Bailey and Modern Popular Media, Anna Pravdica (University of Warwick, UK)
4. Moral Exculpation along the Archival Grain: State Legitimacy, War Trauma, and the Reporting of German Soldiers’ Suicides, 1914–1918, Matthew Hershey (University of Michigan, USA)
5. Denying and Dismissing Frustration: Peruvians in U.S. Archaeology’s 1960s and 1970s Archive, Rachel Sarah O’Toole (University of California Irvine, USA)
6. A Conscious Ripping: Emotional Connections in Anna Banti’s Archive, Annantonia Martorano (University of Florence, Italy)
7. Looking for an objective emotionality. The rationalised archive of an Italian twentieth-century artist, Lorenzo Sergi (University of Cagliari, Italy)
Part II: Emotions, Archives, and Their People
8. Unveiling the Untold Story: Humanity in National Archives, Charles Farrugia (National Archives of Malta)
9. ‘The last letter I ever received’: Epistles, Emotions, and the Family Archive in Eighteenth Century England, Imogen Peck (University of Birmingham, UK)
10. Inherent Pleasures: Emotions and History in the Archives and on Screen, Michèle Plott (Suffolk University, USA)
11. Emotions, Archives, and Internationalism: The League of Nations and Intellectual Cooperation, 1919–1945, Ilaria Scaglia (Aston University, UK)
12. Experiencing the Historical Record: A Psychosocial/psychodynamic Method for Working with Archival Materials, Iqbal Singh and Kevin Lu (King’s College London and University of Essex, UK)
13. Archivists and Emotional Labour: Radically Accepting Hidden Lineages of Self-Preservation, Kristen J. Nyitray and Dana Reijerkerk (Stony Brook University, USA)
14. “Invented Archives”: Emotions, Digital Aggregations, and (De)contextualisations, Federico Valacchi (University of Macerata, Italy)

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