(1) The former senior KGB archivist Vasili Mitrokhin, who has died from pneumonia aged 81, will be best remembered for his extraordinary achievement in noting down the contents of top-secret Soviet foreign intelligence files and, at great personal risk, smuggling them out of the secret police headquarters on almost every working day for 12 years.
(2) It was Tim, an archivist from Warners whom I had been pestering for years about trying to track down some long-lost film footage.
(3) The issue came up after an archivist discovered documents showing that Hitler and the president who appointed him, Paul von Hindenburg, had been given honorary citizenship of Dietramszell.
(4) Murray Melvin, a member of Littlewood's Theatre Workshop company, now the theatre's honorary archivist, recalled the original cast's extraordinary experience.
(5) We can do four or five hundred a day,” says one of the archivists, Lucas Behmer.
(6) A team of specialist conservation staff from Historic Scotland is now working with the school's own archivists to retrieve and conserve vulnerable materials.
(7) As theatre director emeritus and honorary archivist of the Victoria theatre collection at Staffordshire University, he continued his involvement with the theatre he loved.
(8) It’s a great surprise for the new year,” said archivist Niurbus Ferrer.
(9) Directed by Franny Armstrong (a documentary film-maker and outrider for the Guardian's 10:10 campaign), The Age of Stupid cast Pete Postlethwaite as a mournful archivist in 2055, looking at footage from 2008 of flash floods and rampant air travel and wondering where it all went wrong.
(10) What I believe could [provide] context here is that back in the early 20th century there was a small student group that adopted the name Ku Klux Klan,” said archivist William Maher at the University of Illinois, who was listed in the published phone numbers, told the Guardian.
(11) A team of archivists is busy cleaning, photographing and indexing crates full of 33, 45 and 78 RPMs.
(12) The American diplomatic cables show a long and increasingly futile effort on behalf of the embassy to mediate between the Vatican archivists and outside historians, bedevilled by mutual mistrust.
(13) Andrei Tarkovsky: it's time to immerse yourself in the work of a true auteur Read more Many of the images which are particularly technically flawed are expected to be among the most coveted when the collection is sold by his son Andrey, who is also his archivist, at Bonhams auction house in October.
(14) According to Lionel Joseph, 90, who was the CTC's archivist until he turned 83, the name change, which came about in 1883, was prompted by protests from those who favoured three wheels over two.
(15) Pete Postlethwaite, who stars in the film as an archivist in 2050 looking back at the opportunities mankind had to stop climate change, will arrive in a solar-powered car.
(16) After working for King, Maude and Leonard Ballou moved on to what is now Elizabeth City State University in North Carolina, where Leonard Ballou was an archivist.
(17) Specialist archivists from the Glasgow School of Art have begun the operation to conserve items damaged by the fire that ripped through the Charles Rennie Mackintosh building in the city centre on Friday.
(18) Blake, the assiduous archivist, photographed them – an image now in the Cardiff show, alongside the train ticket he bought for his journey there – and regarded their meeting as a good omen.
(19) Volunteer Archivist and Alumni Events Organiser City University London.
(20) In recent years, publishers, authors, and archivists have become aware of the destructive effects of acid decay on medical journals.
Historian
Definition:
(n.) A writer of history; a chronicler; an annalist.
(n.) One versed or well informed in history.
Example Sentences:
(1) Former lawmaker and historian Faraj Najm said the ruling resets Libya “back to square one” and that the choice now faced by the Tobruk-based parliament is “between bad and worse”.
(2) The Dacre review panel, which included Sir Joseph Pilling, a retired senior civil servant, and the historian Prof Sir David Cannadine, said Britain now had one of the "less liberal" regimes in Europe for access to confidential government papers and that reform was needed to restore some trust between politicians and people.
(3) Jeanne Haffner is a historian and writer based in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
(4) The discovery of this vast tranche of documents has prompted historians to suggest that a major reappraisal of the end of Britain's empire will be required once these materials have been digested – a "hidden history" if ever there were one.
(5) As the historian of neoliberalism Philip Mirowski argues , what the past 30 years have been about is using the powers of the state to divert more resources to the wealthy.
(6) A photograph, first exhibited by the Department of Psychology of Clark University at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago is included, and further illustrates the importance of these instruments to historians.
(7) Academic and TV historian Mary Beard has disclosed her innovative approach to dealing with her vitriolic Twitter trolls – writing them a job reference.
(8) Northup eventually detailed his experiences in a book, also titled Twelve Years a Slave , which helped historians build a picture of the slave experience at the time.
(9) The stereotypical view of the historian is that of a stodgy, bespectacled individual poring over tomes of printed text, dusty manuscripts, and thousands of index cards.
(10) Others, including sociologist and historian of ideas Pierre-André Taguieff , claim that the media’s “methodical stigmatisation” of Israel and an increasing anti-Israel bias in France in general has encouraged the emergence of a Muslim Judeophobia.
(11) The British historian Simon Schama narrowly escaped death this year when the helicopter he was on caught fire and crash-landed.
(12) MI5 kept close watch on a number of people who were known within the British Communist party as the Historians Group.
(13) Applicants were then required to provide strong evidence to the NSW crown solicitor’s office of connection to country, and included affidavits from traditional owners and reports by an anthropologist, historian and linguist.
(14) But the bigger question, the one that has vexed historians, biographers and holocaust experts for eight decades, is why she was there.
(15) Elsewhere, historian Dominic Sandbrook will look at the global domination of Britain’s post-empire popular culture, and the Hairy Bikers will take 30 retired people to a secondary school in Old School, attempting to transform the lives and experiences of both.
(16) To a packed court, Mr Justice Gray delivered a verdict that excoriated Irving as a man and a historian.
(17) Yet it was as the defining Marxist historian of the century of revolution, the title of one of the most widely studied of his many books, that he became known to generations of students around the world.
(18) Ohler’s book may well irritate some historians; he makes flippant remarks and uses chapter titles such as “Sieg High!” and “High Hitler”.
(19) Susan Greaney, an English Heritage historian, said: "The discovery … has certainly strengthened the case for it being a full circle."
(20) Christian Gizewski a research professor at TU Berlin describes himself as a "general historian" specialising in ancient history.