Description
The final archive of the State Archival System safeguards the funds produced by the organs of the State that have no administrative value but have historical value. In the archive there are various funds of Contemporary Institutions of the Legislative, Judicial and Executive Power, as well as private archives of personalities who stood out in the scientific, political, literary, diplomatic and military fields.
Content ratio
Personal and family files (among others, stand out Diego Martínez Barrio, José Giral Pereira, Manuel Azaña Díaz, Margarita Nelken Mansberger, Niceto Alcalá-Zamora Torres, Vicente Rojo Lluch)
Territorial Court of Madrid. Criminal Room. Provincial High Court of Madrid
Personal files of Judges, Magistrates and Prosecutors (purged)
Police records of the General Directorate of Security of the Ministry of the Interior. They enter in several remittances, their volume reaches 113,834 files dating from 1922 to 1977. It offers problems of access since some expedients still live. It is quoted in PAIRS, but it lacks a fact sheet as a documentary series.
Supreme Court. Criminal Chamber (1874-1948)
People’s Courts and Emergency and Guard Jurors of Madrid
Note: The hyperlinks link to the descriptive tab that appears in PAIRS 2.0.
La General Cause, is actually guarded in the Documentary Center of Historical Memory, however it is described as if it were still part of the National Historical Archive.
Databases
Census guide of Archives of Spain and Latin America
Portal of Ibero-American Migratory Movements
Virtual exhibitions and pieces of the month
- Azaña. Collonges sous Salève, February 27, 1939
- Relocation of Guernica
- Christmas in exile. Margarita Nelken’s correspondence in the National Historical Archive
Contact Address
C/ Serrano, 115
28006 Madrid
Phone number: +34 91 768 85 00
Email: ahn@cultura.gob.es
Web link
http://www.culturaydeporte.gob.es/cultura/areas/archivos/mc/archivos/ahn/portada.html
