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The permanent building societies of England grew from humble beginnings as a multitude of small and localized institutions in the nineteenth century to become the dominant players in the house mortgage market by the inter-war period. Throughout the nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries, the movement cultivated an image of being a champion of home ownership for the working classes, but housing historians have questioned whether building societies really lived up to this claim. This study fills a major gap in the historiography of the movement by investigating the class profile of building society members, and how the design of different building societies affected their accessibility, efficiency, and risk-taking practices between 1880 and 1939. These themes are explored using case studies of several building societies from this period and drawing upon extensive archival records. The Building Society Promise shows that building societies did lend to working-class households before the First and Second World Wars, with some societies showing a greater commitment to working-class home ownership than others

Introduction: Migrants, spies, and security in Cold War Germany -- Part I. Places -- The Allied enclave of West Berlin -- Debriefing in West Germany -- Part II. Personalities -- British initiators : Scientific, Technical and Intelligence Branch -- American liberators : the Counter Intelligence Corps -- West German administrators : the Federal Intelligence Service (BND) -- Part III. Practices -- Westward migration and East Germany's Stasi -- Shared approaches to security questioning -- Conclusion: Refugee screening : the past as prologue -- Appendix: The changing state of archival access

The State Politics & Policy Data Archive is a free-access, web-based archive of publication-related datasets focusing on comparative American state politics & policy research. This essay describes the utility of the archive, provides instruction on its use, & requests that readers contribute data. 2 Tables, 25 References. Adapted from the source document.

Describes the difficulties encountered by historians who attempt to review contemporary French archives in spite of a 1979 law providing access. The French state monitors what can be examined, even by professional historians, & is especially protective of any material that might offend the official powers. This practice allowed the collaborationist past of former President Francois Mitterrand to be concealed until he was near death & still hides many particulars of the Vichy government. In general, Vichy scholarship represents official views & the few dissenting voices have faced the possibility of being ostracized. The role of historians in revealing past transgressions, & the risky business of dealing with contemporary events, are discussed. J. Lindroth

The Roper Center, located at Williams Coll (Williamstown, Mass), is the major library of sample survey data in the world today. Currently, over 60 survey org's in the US & abroad are placing the basic data from their studies at the Center, thus making them available to scholars for secondary analysis. To date, approximately 2,800 studies, dating from 1936 to the present, & conducted in 39 countries, have been sent to the Roper Center. Access to these data is granted to accredited scholars, & others doing res in the public interest. Over 2,500 scholars from all parts of the world have thus far made use of the Center's data, res facilities, & services. AA.

Issues of access and descriptive standards for post-Soviet archives; some focus on economic constraints; Russian Federation. Includes a list of archival centers.

While the present state of Salvadoran historiography encourages research in previously unexplored areas, no easy transition can be made from research projects to source materials. Scholars desiring to work on El Salvador will find that access to Salvadoran archival holdings is currently hindered by skeletal staffing and problematic working conditions. Finding the desired documents consequently involves more than the usual amount of sifting through papers. This research note provides a guide to archival and other historical materials available in the United States and El Salvador and places these sources in the context of major questions left unanswered by the historiography covering 1700 to 1940. (Lat Am Res Rev/DÜI)