The Routledge Guide to European Political Archives: Sources since 1945

There has been a lot of history in Europe since the 1939‐1945 war: the initial post‐war reconstruction, the re‐birth of social democracy in Germany and Italy, the beginnings of European integration, relations with Eastern Europe, the Cold War, decolonisation, the fall of Communism, and much else. Politicians and statesmen, libertarians and environmentalists, economists and human rights activists, campaigners for women's rights, peace activists, anti‐globalists, trade unionists, leaders of the student movement, anarchists, federalists and anti‐federalists, and a plethora of others, all give rise to much serious historical research. And for this one needs access to their papers and diaries, to...