%0 Journal Article
%T Personal documents from the period of World War I in the publishing series of the Head Office of State Archives
%A Cichoracki, Piotr
%J Archeion
%V 2022
%R 10.4467/26581264ARC.22.003.16464
%N 123
%P 243-254
%K diaries, source editions, World War I
%@ 0066-6041
%D 2022
%U https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/archeion/article/dokumenty-osobiste-z-okresu-i-wojny-swiatowej-w-serii-wydawniczej-naczelnej-dyrekcji-archiwow-panstwowych
%X The article offers a detailed critical review of the 7-volume edition of source documents entitled "Wielka Wojna – codzienność niecodzienności. Biblioteka pamiętników z I wojny światowej z zasobu polskich archiwów państwowych" [The great War – the everyday of the extraordinary. The library of World War I diaries from the fonds of Polish state archives]. It is a library of World War I diaries from the fonds of Polish state archives, published in 2014–2021 by the Head Office of State Archives. Individual volumes of the series comprise academically compiled diary documents from the World War I period. The diaries and memoirs included in the series are linked by the theme of their authors’ fates during the war and depictions of daily life in wartime Polish lands. The author analysed and evaluated the publication from the perspective of selection of diary sources used, their editorial preparation, layout of individual volumes, as well as the scholarly apparatus. He also addressed the issue of the academic preparation of individual volumes; he included a number of recommendations and conclusions for the publisher, regarding the improvement of scope and quality of the editorial preparation of diary sources for publication.