GSFS 250 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Social History
4 Jun 2018
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Lecture 6:
What is an archive?
Different types
Books, old newspapers, periodicles, building plans, surveys, court records, old letters, diaries,
photos, art pieces,etc.
Government archives like Montreal city archives that holds city plans and city archives
Those are from records from city archives
Also university archives-
“oeties alled speial olletios
So you have local town archives, national archives but also private ones
The one we will be talking about the most
Quee’s ga arhies
Started by Montreal people who wanted to preserve the history of gay people in Quebec
Only opened 2 times a week and run by volunteers
For Quebec gay archives- mandate
Mostly focus on gay men because of the papers they have
Archives all have a reputation
Canada has a few LGBTQ archives
Most are housed in university centers
Large archives like the British library
Sometimes you might need book supports
Or hite gloes so ou do’t get our ski oils o it
Loose boxes- usorted oes of people’s papers or files
Online archives too
Clip about research on archives-
Important to see what other people have researched!
Also thinking about where is this happening in the rest of history
How they differ from libraries
Evaluating archives and where you look for historial ators ad hat kid of soure ou’re
dealing with
Problems with archives:
Maynard reading-
A lot of arhies thik soe papers are’t iportat ad soe people ust ot trust their
papers with archives so not everything is shown
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