An archivist’s night at the movies, part VI: Christmas revisited
In the third entry in the Region of Peel Archive’s ongoing An Archivist’s Night at the Movies series (posted December 20th, 2018) I explored the use and depiction of records […]
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An Archivist’s Night at the Movies, Part V: Spooky Halloween Edition
I have long maintained that the pervasive power of records as storytelling devices means that they show up in all manner of films, across all genres. To further develop […]
Researching the “woodland world”: Historic vegetation in Peel
“To a wanderer in forest solitudes a sense of mystery is often perceived which lures him on and on into the verdant depths of the woodland world.” Alexander Porteous, The […]
The Archivist as detective: The use of “diplomatics” in a municipal archive
“It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts.” Sherlock Holmes When talking […]
An archivist’s night at the movies, part III: Holiday edition
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 […]
An archivist’s night at the movies – revealing the power of archival records
As a follow up to my colleague Nick Moreau’s post concerning the depiction of archives in the 2014 movie Paddington, I thought it might be […]
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