National archives get documents by pioneer of modernisation of Maltese law
Hundreds of documents by Sir Adrian Dingli, a pioneer in the modernisation of Maltese law, have been acquired by the National Archives of Malta as part of a bigger collection curated by lawyer and historian Albert Ganado.
The collection also includes documents by Albert Laferla, the man who introduced the education system still in use today and Emanuele Mizzi, uncle of former prime minister Enrico.
The documents, which date back to the 18th century, will now be catalogued and eventually made accessible to the public, National Archivist Charles Farrugia told the media on Wednesday.
He said that the acquisition will help fill some of what is known as the “silence at the archives”, often caused by a lack of donations of private collections of items that are of national importance, or a lack of proper preservation of documents.
Ganado, he said, was the first chair of the Malta National Archives Advisory Committee, and his curated collection will complement the existing collection at the archives.
Most of these recently acquire documents are of a personal nature, including daily journal entries and correspondences between Dingli and his son.
Prof Raymond Mangion, chair of the...