Archive of technology, entertainment and everyday life
Photographic collections are more than images: their supports, provenance and associated information shape how they can be preserved, studied and understood. The Museo de Zaragoza offers a concrete example of preventive conservation adapted to diverse materials.
Open storyPopular memory often equates the Internet with pages and browsers. The available sources tell a broader story: a network infrastructure supporting different services, with email as a central practice and the Web as a later layer of linked documents.
Open storyAn introduction to distribution as the link between production and exhibition, and to what the available sources tell us about the consolidation of Spain’s film sector from the early twentieth century to the quota debate of 1928.
Open storyConserving decorative arts is not simply a matter of repairing objects. Documentation, accessible storage and preventive care are part of the everyday work of protecting both their physical integrity and the information they convey.
Open storyPreserving videogames means attending to software, hardware, documents and contexts of use. Drawing on published archives, museums and analysis, this article examines what gets preserved, what may be left out, and why every archival decision also interprets the medium’s history.
Open storyA cautious reading of the available sources on 1970s fashion: disco aesthetics, synthetic materials and the influence of urban cultures emerge as distinct strands, not as one uniform style.
Open storyA look at how museums and collections turn everyday toys into evidence of childhood, material culture and social change—without confusing what an object may suggest with what sources can establish.
Open storyA critical look at how companies and creators revive forms from the past to address present-day desires, and at what the available evidence does—and does not—allow us to say about the phenomenon.
Open storyRegular television broadcasting in Spain began in 1956, but its early history cannot be reduced to an opening date. The available sources show how the new medium gained public presence and how programmes, advertising and political context intersected in its first years.
Open storyFrom the new European wave of the late 1970s to popular titles of the 2000s, the sources trace a shift in how board games were viewed: from a pastime associated with childhood to social leisure and a creative field with its own identity.
Open storyAn introductory look at milestones in Japanese animation and its circulation, attentive to source discrepancies and to what the available evidence can support.
Open storyA critical reading of several timelines and round-ups finds software, personal computers, and peripheral connections among the milestones highlighted in late-twentieth-century computing. The supplied sources show how such lists are constructed, but are not enough to establish a comprehensive history or definitive ranking.
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