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History of women and gender in the Archive of the Czech National Bank

Publication at Faculty of Arts |
2021

Abstract

The Archive of the Czech National Bank is perceived by the research community as an institution managing sources on the economic history of the Czech lands and Central Europe, in particular since the second half of the 19th century. Although the archival collections deposited in it belong for the most part to the institutional holdings of Czechoslovak financial institutions, the archival documents stored in them offer not only an insight into the operation of the monetary institutions themselves, but also a view inside the companies.

However, the lives of individuals who were in contact with banks (clients) or worked in them (bank clerks) are not left out either. The paper focuses on these two areas that you can find archival documents (personal files and registers of employees, photographs, credit files, files of the information department, etc.), which can also be used to study the history of women and gender.

The analysis of research interest in the Archive of the Czech National Bank in a given type of research in the last ten years and the subsequent comparison with foreign banking archives shows a still slight and gradually emerging interest in the given topic. Archival materials are only being discovered by the research community and gradually heuristically processed in articles that tend primarily to the history of women rather than gender.