Forrai Ibolya szerk.: "Mi volt Magyar Ország, mi volt szabadsága..." - Negyvennyolcas idők 2. (A Néprajzi Múzeum forráskiadványai 5; Budapest, 1999)
"WHAT'S BEEN HUNGARY AND WHAT'S BEEN HER FREEDOM..." (Summary)
"What's been Hungary and what's been Her freedom" Forty-eighter times vol. II. (Source publication) (Summary) In this second volume of the source publication titled "Forty-eighter times" the authors are: two tillers of the soil, from the Kunság; and two intellectual of legal education from the origin of the lower gentry from the south beyond-Danube, the first group: István Székely 's (the local judge of Fülöpszállás) chronicle put in verses, and Bálint Végh's (a farmer of Kisújszállás) rhymed "biography", the second group: Antal Noszlopy's (the brother of Noszlopy Gáspár the government commissioner of Somogy county), autobiography which in fact is a correct recording of the events in Somogy from april 1849 to Világos; and finally Gábor Balogh 's (a solicitor and local gentry) nice remembering his time at the military. These recordings were made originally in the decades immediately following the fall of the revolution. In the legacy of the 1848/49 revolution and war for independence, there are diaries and rememberings of contemporaries of special values as they reflect on the individual thoughts, experiences and opinions of the public figures of the history. Nowadays the science of history puts greater and greater emphases to learn the lived history; the live experiences. For events being in time close to the current the verbal history holds more detailes and so makes possible to collect this type of recordings of experiences. The situation is however a lot more difficult for events bein farther back in the past, where the source recordings being made for other reasons; barely answer to our questions. This is why the recent days history schools are working on the everyday life, pay great attention and regard as source of exceptional value the remembering writings, diaries, autobiographies. The historians had worked a great deal to publish the said documents on the 1848/49 revolution and war for independence but mostly focusing on reconstruction the actual sequences of the events, almost completely neglecting the features of verbal legacies and written mémoires reflecting on the people's emotional and mental relation to the events. The events history in a sense unpersonalises the historic events, while using the remembering documents this: the personalised, intim, private history can be called upon. The one and a half century anniversary of the 1848/49 revolution and independence war, offers the opportunity to the Hungarian Museum of Ethnography to undertake the publishing of the documents cumulated its collections, the source material barely known by historians and be made accessible to all interested. These writings in this volume report about, how an individual experienced, lived and how remembers to the concepts of the revolution and freedom fighting after its fall. To publish the admitting stories helps to understand the XlXth century; more adequately and 1848/49 in it; and in addition to it the documents published are sources of other aspects of the century and almost all features of the contemporary life. The goals and conclusions of the time are relevant today, and in certain aspects are rather current, so its reasonable to call this historical heritage.
