When talking to patrons about conducting archival research I will often refer to their task as being similar to a detective’s – sifting pieces of evidence and following different leads […]
Visiting an archives has something in common with using any public service. In each interaction with a service or a staff person, you’re seeing the small tip of a very […]
For our last blog post of 2018 we felt it would be fun to turn our archival gaze on some classic holiday movies and television episodes to see how and […]
“…what if comic books were not simply a medium of entertainment, but in fact a form of mythology through which we both tell stories about ourselves and look to for […]
Over this past year one of our special projects here in the Peel Archives has been to undertake a complete physical inventory of our holdings. Archivists Kyle and Samantha have […]
In this post I am going to continue our exploration of how records and/or Archives are used by writers and directors to further the plot of various films. Part one […]
On the big screen, archives are generally mysterious places. Archives both hide and reveal secrets that move the plot along. But one of the biggest mysteries in fictional archives is […]
