IIn the library, we always have to smile a little when someone - usually student assistants who have just started at the ZZF - asks for the journal "Archiv für Sozialgeschichte" ("Archive for Social History") because it can't be found on the periodicals rack. The astonishment is always the same when we come from the shelves with one of the burly orange-coloured volumes.
Since 1961, when the first volume was published, the AfS has never really changed its appearance. Always the same colour, always the same font ... At most, the width of the spine has varied barely perceptibly by a few millimetres from year to year, depending on the content.
But this year, 2021, at the ripe old age of 60, (almost) everything is different. The typography on the cover is without serifs and is no longer black but white. Even more revolutionary: the covers have been dropped! There is no longer a dust jacket, but there is an attractive graphic on the cover. At least the orange colour has remained. We are reassured and delighted! Because the anniversary volume in its new guise also has a nice topic, namely: "Practices and ideas of solidarity"!
Why are we telling you about it in the "Bits and pieces from the internet" section? We don't really want to tell you, as we'll probably have to do without the astonished expressions on people's faces in future, but the "old" volumes are all freely accessible online at
https://www.fes.de/afs/baende#c209742
The library team hopes you enjoy browsing!
(18.05.2021)