Aug 31, 2026 | English
31 August 2026 Archivitaly Access Watch #22 covers the week from Monday 31 August to Sunday 6 September 2026. The end of the main August closure period restores normal access at many Italian archives, but significant restrictions remain. Building works continue to...
Aug 28, 2026 | English
Palaeographic transcription is sometimes described, rather reductively, as the decipherment of difficult handwriting; in reality, it is a discipline of controlled interpretation, in which graphic form, linguistic competence, documentary convention and historical...
Aug 27, 2026 | English
24–30 August 2026 Late August continues to affect archival access across Italy, with a combination of summer closures, shortened reading-room schedules, temporary exclusions of holdings, restricted retrieval services and institutional works. This week’s Access Watch...
Aug 20, 2026 | English
Paleography is concerned with historical writing: how it was formed, how it changed, how it can be read and, in many cases, how a written witness can be dated or localised through its graphic features. Transcription and translation enter at a different stage. They may...
Aug 17, 2026 | English
17–23 August 2026 The third week of August remains a particularly uneven period for archival access in Italy. Summer opening schedules overlap with longer-term building works, staffing constraints, repository closures and temporary restrictions on the retrieval of...
Aug 13, 2026 | English
Digitised ecclesiastical archives in Italy, together with the Vatican repositories most closely connected to Italian research, do not constitute a single digital system. They range from the central archives of the Holy See and religious orders to diocesan, capitular,...