A Levéltári Szekció tanácskozása az MKE XIII. vándorgyűlésén, Kaposvár. 1981 - Magyar Könyvtárosok Egyesülete Levéltári Szekció füzetei 1. (Budapest, 1983)

Angol összefoglaló

MEETING OF THE ARCHIVAL SECTION IN THE 13th CONFERENCE OF THE ASSOCIATION OF THE HUNGARIAN LIBRARIANS Kaposvár, 24th August, 1981. /. The Questions of the Publication of the Archival Source Materials Agnes Ságvári, chairwoman of the archival section and conference, outlined the importance of the theme above mentioned from the point of view of historiography based in facts and the concentrated organization of publishing. The main lecture was held by the historian Kálmán Benda. He enumerated the periods of the history of the Hungarian source publications and in connection with this he mentioned all those „problems that arose again and again at all times and. . . have not been solved up till now." The (Jesuit and Protestant) beginning of high standard in the 18th century was followed by the romantic fabledom of the reform period. After 1849 and later after 1867, on the one hand, the rule of a nobiliary attitude towards history was continued that selected the publication of sources arbitray; both in periods and in themes, meanwhile it produced a large quantity of superficial publications. This tendency was supported by the Academy of the given period and it was followed by the local pieces of work, as well. The other trend of the era of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy was organized by the Hungarian Historical Society the leading members of which published sources with exemplary methods. The first regulations of source publication were published in 1921. Between the two world wars also the documents of the modern Hungarian history were dealt with. But, henceforward, most of the publications preferred the political and military activity of the ruling class and the history of high culture. The social interest for the source publications, that was characteristic in the 19th century, gradually fell off. After 1945 the increasing attention of the Marxist historical research towards the economic history, the peasantry, the industrial workers and concerning the sources of the historical nationalities had an effect of novelty. But the situation of source publishing on the whole has not been improved. The national plans remained on paper, neither the Academy nor the Historical Society undertake an overall organization, the National Archives works by itself. Even the historical publication methods are not uniform, they often reveal the lack of