📚 Archives

Records chosen to survive: arrangement theory, finding aids, and the politics of what gets kept.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject archives in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	Methodist Missionary Society Archives, London	Wesleyan Methodist Missionary Society	1980	66
	The papers of Thomas Jefferson	Thomas Jefferson	1944	49
	Guides to German records microfilmed at Alexandria, Va	United States. National Archives and Records Service.	1958	38
	Documents of American history	Henry Steele Commager	1934	18
	Correspondence	Antonín Dvořák	1983	13
	Minguo feng xi jun fa dang an	Huanlin Zhao	2016	13
	Archival storytelling	Sheila Curran Bernard	2008	12
	Handbuch der Urkundenlehre für Deutschland und Italien	Harry Bresslau	1889	11
	Accessions to repositories and reports added to the National Register of Archives	Great Britain. Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts.	1974	9
	Record offices	Jeremy Sumner Wycherley Gibson	1986	9
	Motion pictures & sound and video recordings in the National Archives	United States. National Archives and Records Administration.	1993	9
	Komunsŏ chipsŏng	Kukhak Chinhŭng Yŏnʼgu Saŏp Chʻujin Wiwŏnhoe (Korea)	1997	9
	Principles of marketing	Fred Emerson Clark	1922	8
	Les archives nationales	Archives nationales.	1978	7
	古文書集成	Kukhak Chinhŭng Yŏnʾgu Saŏp Chʻujin Wiwŏnhoe (Korea)	1997	7
	UFOs	Leslie Kean	2010	7
	Modern archives	T. R. Schellenberg	1956	6
	Records and record searching	Walter Rye	1888	5
	Old Ross-shire and Scotland, as seen in the Tain and Balnagown documents	W. Macgill	1909	5
	The Secret Archives of the Vatican	Maria Luisa Ambrosini	1969	5
	Archives in the ancient world	Ernst Posner	1972	5
	Archive buildings and equipment	Michel Duchein	1977	5
	Currents of archival thinking	Terry Eastwood	2010	5
	Records and Information Management	Patricia C. Franks	2013	5
	What Are Archives? : Cultural and Theoretical Perspectives	Louise Craven	2016	5
	Archives	Laura Millar	2016	5
	A manual of archive administration	Hilary Jenkinson	1937	4
	The researcher's guide to American genealogy	Val D. Greenwood	1973	3
	The Allure of the Archives	Arlette Farge	2013	3
	Modern archives	T. R. Schellenberg	1956	2

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 03 Nov 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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