Preferred label

Letterlocking (historical activity)            

Alternative label

Letter locking; Letter-locking    

Scope note

A sub-category of a 10,000-year-long document security tradition, pertaining to epistolary materials.         

Parent concept

Information security         

uh-linked-data/concept/193        

Related concept 

Document security        

uh-linked-data/concept/109

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, Daniel Starza Smith, and the Unlocking History Research Group. Letterlocking, The Hidden History of the Letter. Cambridge and London: MIT Press, 2025.

Unlocking History Concept uri

uh-linked-data/concept/2