Giro da Arquivo is a weekly newsletter on Brazilian archival policy, covering government decisions, budgets and institutions such as the Arquivo Nacional and the São Paulo state archive. Each issue combines reporting on official documents with analysis of what the changes mean for archives and public access to records.
Website: https://girodaarquivo.substack.com
Essays on 19th-century German Lutheran history in America, drawing on primary sources such as Der Lutheraner and Lehre und Wehre. Each issue closely reads a single archival page or column and places it in its historical context, with an audio version available.
Nor publishes essays and interviews that document and critique Canadian design and material culture, from passports to queer archives to critical design practice. Readers get long-form, scholarly yet accessible writing from designers, educators and researchers.
A storytelling newsletter from Yole!Africa that uses archives and photography to explore displacement, community and belonging, centred on the Mahindule residency and the Bulengo camp in eastern DRC. It pairs reflective essays on colonial history, extraction and humanitarian dependency with the images they accompany.
A process blog and workshop project on archival study and memory-keeping from a Black diasporic, Black feminist perspective, mixing personal essay, family archive images, and reading lists. Readers get reflective writing on place, ancestry, and treating archives as relational rather than purely technical systems.
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