Dějiny archivů a archivnictví jako téma. Podněty a stav výzkumu ; History of archives and archival science as a topic: stimuli and the state of the research

The presented study aims to present the latest trends in contemporary archival historiography. The emphasis is placed on presenting the change in how archival history is perceived that has taken place over the last two to three decades. At the same time, the study introduces the most frequent topics that contemporary European archival historiography deals with. It is possible to mention here both an interest defined institutionally and chronologically (the development of the archive or archives in a certain period), as well as one that is governed by subject criteria (relocated archives, destroyed archives, archives in the service of totalitarian regimes). All these tendencies lead to a significantly broader contextualisation of the insight into the history of archival science. The conclusion of the study is a brief presentation of the current state of Czech research and its (un)openness to the foreign trends presented above.