What is a Petition?

Notes on the Histories of Recordkeeping

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  • The Peasants’ Revolt

    The English Peasants’ Revolt of 1381 has a continuously re-envisioned history. An event with the appeal of an extraordinary and dramatic social revolution cannot hide from interpretation and narration.  The story was once solely reliant on a handful of narratives written by contemporary or near-contemporary writers, but since the 19th century historians have relied also

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I will be adding new categories: Classification, Registration and Manuals.

I am finishing up an essay which I will post about when I am done: “A Prospetto of 1803: Records Classification by Materie from Habsburg Lombardy to the Napoleonic Kingdom of Italy.”

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