Unlocking History Concept uri
https://letterlocking.org/doll/concept/2
Preferred label
letterlocking (disciplines)
Alternative label
letter locking; letter-locking; LL
Scope note
The discipline which studies the materially engineered security and privacy of letters, both as a technology and a historically evolving tradition. A sub-category of a 10,000-year-long document security tradition, pertaining to epistolary materials.
Top concept
disciplines
https://letterlocking.org/doll/concept/604
Broader/Parent concept
document security
https://letterlocking.org/doll/concept/109
Related concept
The Arts & Architecture ThesaurusⓇ Online, The Getty Research Institute Concept uri
Not in AAT
The Language of Bindings Thesaurus (LoB) Concept uri
Not in LoB
Scope note source reference
Source
Jana Dambrogio and Daniel Starza Smith with the Unlocking History Research Group. Letterlocking: The Hidden History of the Letter. Cambridge and London: MIT Press, 2025.