Who's behind the news?
Who's behind the news?
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Newsjunkie.net is a resource guide for journalists. We show who's behind the news, and provide tools to help navigate the modern business of information.
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The Hellenic Literary and Historical Archive (Ελληνικό Λογοτεχνικό και Ιστορικό Αρχείο, ELIA) is a major cultural archive in Greece dedicated to the collection, preservation, classification, research, and publication of nineteenth and twentieth-century archival and printed material relating to modern Greek history and culture. Since October 2009, ELIA has been part of the National Bank of Greece Cultural Foundation (Μορφωτικό Ίδρυμα Εθνικής Τραπέζης, MIET).
ELIA was founded in 1980 as an independent cultural non-profit organization, with the aim of rescuing and preserving materials that might otherwise have been lost. It is housed in a five-story neoclassical building constructed around 1930 in the Plaka neighborhood of Athens, near the Mitropoli Cathedral. A Thessaloniki branch was established in 1997 and is currently located in the Villa Kapandji, a historic building at 108 Vasilissis Olgas Street in the city.
ELIA maintains an exceptional collection of over 1,000 archives of historical, literary, economic, and artistic content spanning the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The Photographic Archive, one of the richest in Greece, spans from the 1860s to the present, including over 14,600 glass plates, slides, and vintage prints donated by the Hellenic Society in 2005. Press collections include hundreds of newspapers from the 1940s and the Colonels' Junta period (1967–1974). The archive holds maps, old advertisements, ephemera, and a wide variety of cultural objects. The Thessaloniki branch holds 50 archives of historical, literary, economic, and artistic content, including materials on the Bulgarian Occupation of Macedonia and Thrace (1941–1944) and over 250 digitized oral testimonies related to the 1940s in Greece.
ELIA's holdings include the papers of interwar politicians, diplomatic archives, archival materials on the Jewish communities of Greece (with copies held at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum), and collections related to the Greek diaspora in Egypt and Asia Minor. Digital collections are accessible through the SearchCulture.gr aggregator portal.
The library and archives department in Athens are open Tuesday through Friday, 09:00–14:00. The shop at 4 Ag. Andreou St. is open Monday–Friday 09:00–16:30. Visits to the reading room are by appointment.