British Commonwealth archives constitite a rich and often under-utilized source of material for understanding the international history of the 20th and 21st centuries. From the late 19th Century onward, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand each enjoyed close and confidential relations with not just Britain, but with each other and increasingly, too, with the United States. They also participated in major international organizations at both an official and non-governmental level. Although or perhaps because each was a “middle” rather than “great” power, as each country developed its own diplomatic bureaucracy, their representatives often had informal and even intimate insights into the policies of a wide range of countries. This article introduces the highlights of each nation’s major archival repositories for materials relating to international affairs. While the holdings of the Library and Archives of Canada in Ottawa, the National Archives of Australia and the National Library of Australia in Canberra, and the National Archives of New Zealand in Wellington all feature prominently, the author casts a wider net and draw researchers’ attention to additional important and often under-utilized collections scattered across the different countries.

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从极北到极南的英联邦档案馆：冷战国际史中被忽视的资源

英联邦档案馆是了解 20 世纪和 21 世纪国际历史的丰富且经常未被充分利用的材料来源。从 19 世纪后期开始，加拿大、澳大利亚和新西兰不仅与英国保持着密切和保密的关系，而且彼此之间以及与美国的关系也越来越密切。他们还参加了官方和非政府层面的主要国际组织。尽管或者可能是因为每个国家都是“中等”而不是“大”强国，但随着每个国家都发展了自己的外交官僚机构，他们的代表往往对许多国家的政策有非正式甚至深入的见解。本文介绍了每个国家与国际事务有关的主要档案库的亮点。虽然位于渥太华的加拿大图书馆和档案馆、位于堪培拉的澳大利亚国家档案馆和澳大利亚国家图书馆以及位于惠灵顿的新西兰国家档案馆的馆藏都非常突出，但作者撒了一张更广泛的网，吸引了研究人员注意分散在不同国家的其他重要且经常未被充分利用的馆藏。