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The Historical Archive of the Chamber of Deputies (Archivio Storico della Camera dei deputati) traces its origins to 1848, when the institution was created to support the work of the Subalpine Parliament under the Albertine Statute of the Kingdom of Sardinia. In its early years it was managed by an official serving as both librarian and archivist. The archive followed the chamber through the successive capitals of the Kingdom of Italy — from Turin to Florence, and from 1871 to Rome — accumulating records continuously until 1943, when part of the archive was transferred to Venice during the disruptions of the Second World War. After the Liberation, all materials were returned to Rome.
Under Law 147 of 1971, the historical archives of both chambers of the Italian Parliament were recognized as autonomous cultural institutions. The archive's current regulations, which govern how it operates, date to 1994. The archive has been open to the public since 1991 and is currently housed in the Palazzo di via del Seminario, where it moved in 1982.
The archive holds the original documents produced and received by the Chamber of Deputies from its origins as the representative assembly of the Kingdom of Sardinia through the present day. Holdings are organized according to the periods of Italian political and institutional history, covering the Kingdom of Sardinia (from 1848), the Kingdom of Italy, the constitutional transition, and the Republic (from 1948).
Specific collections include bills and draft legislation, verbatim records, interpellations and petitions, records of parliamentary commissions of inquiry (1848–1943), the records of the Consulta Nazionale and the Constituent Assembly, and the complete documentation of Republican chamber activity. The archive also holds a collection of private archives with parliamentary and political interest, the ceremonial photographic archive, and two art and architecture archives relating to designs by architect Ernesto Basile for Palazzo Montecitorio (1908–1918) and proposals from the 1967 national competition for a new chamber building. Audiovisual records of chamber plenary sessions are held from 1989 onward.
The archive holds records of the parliamentary commission of inquiry into the deaths of journalists Ilaria Alpi and Milan Hrovatin in Mogadishu in 1994, making it relevant to media history research.
The archive is open to the public Monday to Friday from 9:30 to 16:30. Access requires users to be at least eighteen years of age. To consult documents or access the study room, researchers must contact the archive's secretariat by email specifying the subject of their research.