Dr. Péter Balázs: Guide to the archives of Hungary (Budapest, 1976)

Fejér Megyei Levéltár (Fejér County Archives)

significant, produced in the years after the liberation of the villains (18561861). The county administrative records of 1860-1861 deserve a special mention. Their birth was due to the restoration of county self-government (for a couple of months), followed by the return to the absolutism before 1860, as the government judged county autonomy dangerous. The records after 1867 mirror a period of transition, then they supply copious data to the return of constitutionalism. The sub-prefects records from the establishment of bourgeois administration (from 1872) are complete up to 1910; from 1910 to 1944 only the subgroups of presidential, confidential and special management have been preserved. Also the records of the county orphan's court are missing from 1904 to 1944. This gap may be bridged by the completeness of the records and journals of the Lord Lieutenant and the assembly (1872-1950), supplying copious data to the political and social life of county and city in the first half of the twentieth century. Events beyond county boundaries are illustrated by the Transdanubian and Székesfehérvár district government commissariats active in the city in the autumn of 1919. These are complete and open to research, just as the former archival group. We have to mention that the most important records of those of the sub-prefect (one of the outstanding magistrates of the county self-government) are classified according to subject. The papers of county administration between 1945 and 1950 are complete, showing the signs of the impending social change. The journals of the county municipal commission and the records of the sub-prefect are especially informative. The records of Székesfehérvár city (1688-1950) represent a large archival unit, in which the journals of the city council (1689-1848), then the protocols and notes of the community council (1851-1859) are the most valuable. The period of the flourishing capitalistic development is richly illustrated by the journals of the municipal commission (1872-1918), the archival material of which covers also the time between the two World Wars, nay the years after the liberation as well (1945-1949). Whereas the journals mirror the general evolution of the city, the protocols of the commissions established by the elected community reflect on a side of city life each. The archival material produced by the council, the cameral, the tax, the orphan's, the property, the captain's offices (eighteenth-nineteenth centuries) is equally valuable. The records of the burgomaster and of the educational authorities show the urban political mechanism, the structure and assimilation of nationalities. Minor series are also worth research. The