Since the historical Hanseatic League worked across borders, it is worthwhile to overcome city and country borders in archival work as well in order to get to know or jointly find clever solutions and best practices of colleagues.
For the first time, the working group met online during the International Hanseatic Day in Riga in 2021 for an open exchange of ideas, during which an archive symposium with a thematic focus was proposed.
This was followed in Neuss in 2022 by a hybrid archive symposium entitled "Libri Civitatum - the backbone of urban history", which presented city book projects from the University of Halle-Wittenberg and the city archives in Neuss and Stade.
A meeting of the working group on archives of the Hanseatic cities is also planned for the International Hanseatic Day in Toruń.
Possible focus topics for further work:
- Electronic archiving, long-term storage, audit security, virtual reading room; digitisation, backup filming, presentation on the internet, availability, copyrights
- Restoration, packaging and presentation of documents and records
- Research on the Hanseatic League from the archives, trade and economic history of the Middle Ages and early modern times, everyday life history, transport history, trade routes, brotherhoods, language research,
- Job shadowing, internships, cooperation with archives, guide to Hanseatic research, subject-based inventory, exchange of foreign archive trainees, FAMIS, training
- Films, photos, workshop assistance
- Disaster control, aid networks
Further suggestions for topics and ideas are very welcome!
Contact
Dr. Christina Deggim, Archive, City of Stade