Promotion of the book Pola veka subotičke popularne muzike (Half century of popular music in Subotica) by the author Tihomir Mišić was held in a full hall of the City Library of Subotica.

Stevan Mačković, director of the Historical Archive of Subotica publisher of this book, spoke at the opening, and the book itself was presented by Bogomir Bogica Mijatović, writer and publicist from Novi Sad.

Ten-year work of the author on collecting data about bands, musical authors was presented at this event, together with everything going on in the field of popular music in Subotica in the last 50 years.

The content of the book is divided by decades beginning with the 60s last century, up to the 2000s. All musical genres are included, not only rock and pop rock, and 370 performers, bands, vocal soloists and other musicians and artists are presented.

The 100-year anniversary of the Subotica Football Association (1920-2020) was marked with an exhibition, a lecture and promotion of books about the history of football. This took place at the College of Vocational Studies for the Education of Preschool Teachers and Sports Trainers. This school was also the host for the exhibition organized by the Historical Archives of Subotica, about the Football Club Bačka.

New issue of the Ex Pannonia, annual magazine of The Historical Archives of Subotica has been published. Next to scientific papers on topics about the archival science, historiography and history of medicine, this issue contains The Medical Bibliography of Subotica (2010-2018). The 119 pages of this year’s issue show many illustrations and photographs which are a significant part of the papers themselves.

The 12th International Archival Conference organized by the Historical Archives of Subotica was held on September 20 in the City Hall. The topic this year was Church and Civil Registers. The archivists and other colleagues from Hungary, Croatia and Serbia presented their scientific papers.

Stevan Mačković, the director of The Historical Archives of Subotica opened the conference with the following: Registers are the most used archival material in our Historical Archives. They are the subject of this conference also because of the planed process of returning the church registers to their legal owners, more precisely to church municipalities. They are also very important because of the digitization process that is ongoing in all Historical archives in Serbia.

The promotion of the book „Car Jovan Nenad – Život, delo i nasleđe Crnog čoveka“ by the historian dr Boris Stojkovski has been held in the City Library.

Next to the author who is assistant professor at the Faculty of Philosophy in Novi Sad, the speakers were Pera Lastić, the director of the Serbian Institute in Budapest, prof. Dr Đura Hardi, who is the reviewer of the book and Stevan Mačković, the director of the Historical Archives in Subotica.

Although the oldest archival material in our Archives dates from 1658, the most documents about Jovan Nenad date from the 20th century, 130 years after his death.

There are written sources about Jovan Nenad in the last 100 years, but a complete monograph dedicated to this subject hasn’t been published until now, said Stevan Mačković. This is one of the reasons why such publication is important, filling the holes in the fabric of history.

New issue of the Ex Pannonia, annual magazine of The Historical Archives of Subotica magazine has been published. Besides papers regarding topics about the archival science and historiography, this issue contains a Bibliography of László Magyar, archivist and researcher and Bibliography of Ex Pannonia's last five issues.

The International Archival Conference organized by the Historical Archives of Subotica was held on September 20 in the City Hall. The topic this year was Archival Material About the Change of the Empire in 1918.

The archivists and other colleagues from the whole region presented their scientific papers about the end of the Great War and creation of the new Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes.

After the official part of the conference, the participants continued the conversations and exchange of experiences in a less formal manner. The program continued the next day with an organized visit to the Synagogue, The City museum, Palić lake and Zvonko Bogdan winery.

The Historical Archives of Subotica organized an exhibition "Palić 1945–1985" as a part of this year’s Museums Night event.

There were 16 display boards presenting stories and pictures from the time when Palić belonged to the working class and socialist youth. Those were the times of company resorts, public restaurants and mass tourism, and also great working actions. The exhibition was held at the City Library Palić department. Monographs, brochures and other publications about the Palić Lake and its holiday resorts were also displayed. "Gordan and friends" blues band performed for the visitors at the Library porch the whole evening.

New issue of the Ex Pannonia magazine has been published.

This annual magazine of The Historical Archives of Subotica has 103 pages this year and introduces the readers to the archival material kept by the Historical Archives and presents studies, reviews and papers on local history topics.

The organizers of the recreational sport event “Subotički polumaraton“, held as a part of the “Dan grada” celebrations, gave out plaques to their patrons as a token of gratitude for their help and contribution. The Historical Archives of Subotica received one such plaque.

On Thursday December 14, 2017 a promotion of Tajanstvena Subotica – porodična i zavičajna hronika (Mysterious Subotica – local and family chronicles), the new book by journalist Katarina Korponaić published by The Historical Archives of Subotica has been held.

“The author is very successful in connecting the past of her family with local history thorugh her writing. She is introducing the readers through all 14 chapters, to concrete data about her ancestors who are lively and warm in the text, and to places, surroundings and interesting information of the period in question, says Stevan Mačković, the director of the Historical Archives of Subotica.

During the first years after the war, individual rules and regulations about the protection of documents will transform into an organized means of protection by establishing the archival area for the city of Subotica and Bačka Topola district, according to the decision passed by the Education Department GIO NS APV no. 16800 in 1946. Nine Archival Areas in Vojvodina were formed by this decision. Subotica area included the city of Subotica, Subotica district and Bačka Topola district. The same Decision stated that each Archival Area must have a director. Blaško Vojnć Hajduk, the director of the City Library, was appointed director of the Subotica area. He was appointed Archival Area Director and his duties and responsibilities were determined by the decision passed by the Education Department GIO NS APV no. 11059 on July 16, 1947. His appointing presents the beginning of the work of the archival service in this region.

Seven decades later, The Historical Archives of Subotica issued Our First Seventy Years publication, as an addition to the 70th anniversary event and it presents a concise cross section of the 7 decades behind us. A virtual exhibition under the same name was also presented on this occasion.

A group of researchers visited the Historical Archives of Subotica, as a part of the “Petefi” program which started in the spring of 2015 by the Hungarian secretariat for national politics, with the goal to explore the culture of Hungarians in diaspora.

The director of the Archives Stevan Mačković talked to the guests and Zoltan Mesaroš held a lecture about the history of Subotica and the Archives. They went on a tour of our depots, The City Hall and the highest tower, where Dejan Mrkic told stories about interesting history of the building.

The traditional international archival conference Arhivski dan was held for the 10th time. The topic of this year event was Archives between science, culture and administration.

As a part of our 70th anniversary celebration this year, Our First 70 Years publication was presented, which gives a concise insight in the 7 decades behind us. A virtual exhibition prepared by the Archives was also presented on this occasion.

This year, as a part of the 70 anniversary event, The Historical archives of Subotica commenced awarding Plaques for outstanding contribution to archival science and local historiography. The Plaque bears the name of our prominent colleague Gašpar Ulmer. The first Gašpar Ulmer Plaques were rewarded to Eržebet Apro – a fellow archivist retired, Dr. Emil Libman and Dr. Deže Čuso – scientists and researchers of the local history.

The 3rd Croatian ICARUS days: Archives without borders The director of the Historical Archives of Subotica Stevan Mačković gave a presentation about the experiences with e-research of the church registers in the Historical archives of Subotica at the "Archives without borders" conference held on March 16, 2017 in Vukovar, Croatia. This international meeting was dedicated to the implementation of contemporary IT infrastructure in the operations of cultural institutions and societies and Institutions of science.

In the event of the Night of Museums, The Historical Archives of Subotica has publicly displayed fond No. 40, containing very interesting material, not only for the sport club Bačka from Subotica, but also for other Yugoslav clubs, Football Federation, Athletic Federation, Sokolski movement and other sport, cultural and civil associations, whose activities are intertwined with our oldest sport clubs.

In addition to displaying the football club Bačka records from between World Wars period on ten boards and showcases, the screening of Aleksandar Lifka’s film from 1926 25 year anniversary of Bačka in Subotica was also included. Documents, posters, photographs, newspapers and objects were displayed in the vestibule of the City Hall, while the boards presented the most interesting details, with accompanying text. A commemorative brochure was printed and distributed for this occasion. The exhibition took place May 21, 2016 and was visited by 3 500 people.

In the reading room of the City Library in Subotica on 14 November 2016.  promotional editions and publications were held published by the Historical Archives in Subotica.

On this occasion, they presented three publications:
- Journal Archive "Ex Pannonia" No. 20,

- Guide to the archival fonds of the Historical Archives of Subotica as well as scientific information

- Monograph "Basin of Lake Palić" by Dr. Lajoš Hovanj.

“The Role of Hungarian population in the breakdown of Kingdom of Hungary” was the title of the paper of Zoltan Mesaros from the Historical Archives of Subotica, and Zoran Veljanovic, also an archivist from Subotica, presented his paper “The disappearance of military cemeteries from the First World War on the territory of Vojvodina – Subotica”.

The lecture was organized by the City Library Karlo Bijelicki in Sombor and Association of citizens of Sombor Ravangradsko proleće and Serbian-Russian friendship Society.

A documentary film Bombardment of Subotica in 1944 based on a book by Zoran Veljanovic has been shown as a part of the lecture. The author of the film is journalist Tomislav Vojnic.

The purpose of this seminar is to point out the significance of the correct record keeping in the record creating institutions and to improve the work of people in charge of those activities.

The exhibition was partly devised to show photographs through Photo newspaper – public informational means displayed in the seventies at Borac restaurant, which the older generation still remembers and the younger generation had a chance to familiarize with at this exhibition. Photo newspaper in this exhibition included photographs from old sport matches in Subotica, showing the famous and some even forgotten champions from our city.

Photographs, posters and documents from archival material and publications from the Historical Archives, as well as various trophies, plaques and props included in the exhibition aroused interest in over 2200 visitors that night.

The Historical Archives of Subotica contributed to the celebration of the 70th anniversary of the Sport Society Spartak in Subotica by organizing an exhibition in the City Hall vestibule. The exhibition included photographs, posters and documents from archival material and publications from the Historical Archives, as well as various trophies, plaques and props brought by the clubs and their members from this Sport Society. The opening was attended by many visitors, including sport veterans many of which are world, European or Olympic champions and local government officials including the mayor. Stevan Mackovic, the director of the Historical Archives, opened the exhibition.

The War album of Dr Bela Macasovski from the First World war, part of the Collection of Photographs from the Historical Archives of Subotica, was exhibited in the Museum of Vrbas on May 9, 2015.

The exhibition was organized by the National Council for Montenegro minority. Tatjana Segedincev, also the author of the exhibition catalogue, opened the exhibition.

The valuable archival material on this exhibition aroused the interest of many visitors, local media and The Montenegro National Television. After Vrbas, the exhibition will be displayed in Novi Sad, Belgrade and Montenegro.

„Subotica on Old Charts and Maps“ exhibition has been opened on March 27th at the Croatian State Archives.

The director of the Historical Archives of Subotica Stevan Mackovic gave an introductory speech in which he talked about the work and publication of the Archives. Tatiana Segedincev presented the Photographs Collection from our Archives with an emphasis on the Machasovski Collection which was also introduced to the visitors in a power point presentation.

This exhibition demonstrating the valuable historical development of Subotica can be visited in Zagreb until April 20, 2015.

Zoran Veljanovic from the Historical Archives of Subotica presented a scientific paper Archival materials from the Historical Archives of Subotica about Serbian war volunteers – Addition to the history of Serbian volunteers in World War I.

A short documentary about Goli Otok was featured at Art Cinema "Lifka" as a part of collaboration between The Historical Archives of Subotica and Croatian State Archives.

The documentary film „Goli Otok” is about a political prison that was located on the island during the conflict between Tito and Stalin from 1949 to 1955 – Director and cameraman: Darko Bavoljak, production: Art De Facto, co productions: Croatian state archives Zagreb.

The film was presented by the director of Croatian State Archives Dr Vlatka Lemić and director of the Historical Archives of Subotica Stevan Mačković.

The topic of the 7th "Arhivski dan" international archival conference was Archival collections. Like every year, this event was a gathering place for archivists from Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia and Hercegovina and Hungary. The conference was supported by the City of Subotica, Gabor Betlen Foundation and Ministry of Culture, Informing and Information System of Serbia.

Tatjana Segedinčev held a presentation about the 30 significant archival collections in the Historical Archives of Subotica, four of which are of the highest importance – Collection of Elisabeth Lifka, wife of cinematography pioneer in this region, Collection „Secret Archives” of the town Subotica which contains documents from the 18th century, Collection of Ištvan Ivanji and the Collection of Projects which contains the most important city projects oldest of which is from 1828.

Discussing their own experiences regarding archival collections, were archivists from the Historical Archives of Budapest, Osijek, Novi Sad, Tuzla, Zrenjanin, Vukovar, Sombor, Vojvodina and Bač-Kiškun County.

This year Ex Pannonia magazine published by the Historical Archives of Subotica brings 120 pages of Studies, Reviews and scientific papers regarding local history and archival science. Two papers among the contents of the magazine which are based on the archival materials contribute to the 100th Anniversary of the World War I. The rest of the papers are based on the topics about the local history of health service, architecture, public service etc.

On August 29, 2014 The City Museum held an opening of the „Tragač za zvijezdama” exhibition, regarding the 250th anniversary of the Birth of Croatian astronomer and physicist Danijel Mirko Bogdanić and 200th anniversary of the creation of the Lipski's geographical map of the Kingdom of Hungary. Croatian State Archives, Hungarian State Archives, The Historical Archives of Subotica and The City Museum of Subotica have organized this exhibition. Stevan Mačković, the director of the Historical Archives of Subotica held the opening speech after which the guest from Hungary and Croatia spoke at the opening.

The exhibition vas opened by Etela Jerinkić, assistant mayor of Subotica for Culture.

This exhibition contains replicas of the Lipski's geographical map of the Kingdom of Hungary, illustrated sheets and hanging boards and presents the important scientific work of the Croatian scientist, mathematician, astronomer and surveyor.

A professional archival workshop "Guides to archival holdings in Vojvodina" organized by The Society of Archivists of Vojvodina has been at Palić on June 5th, 2014.

Guide to archival holdings presents a basic and essential finding aid and every Archives is obligated by Law to produce one. Discussions about the methodology and standards and other issues concerning the writing of the Guide took place at the workshop.

Participants of the workshop were archivists who took part in the writing of the Guide from Historical Archives of Vojvodina, Novi Sad, Senta, Subotica, Sombor, Pančevo, Zrenjanin, Kikinda, Bela Crkva, Sr. Mitrovica, Rukopisno odeljenje Matice srpske, Archives of Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts in Sremski Karlovci.

This historical and archival magazine published by the Historical Archives of Subotica is the only magazine of this kind in the North Bachka region. This issue continues with providing its readers with an opportunity to get acquainted with the archival material and parts of certain fonds and collections. The magazine also includes not published before works by various authors concerning local subjects and subject about the North Bachka and Banat region.

From September 2, the long expected E-research of the Registers from Catholic Church in the Subotica municipality project has started with a test phase. There is a link (www: http://e-arhiva.suarhiv.co.rs) on the Historical Archives' web page (www.suarhiv.co.rs) through which the interested parties can put in a request for the access to the E-archives' data base. After registration and acquiring a registration profile, the researchers will be able to search by year, jurisdiction or alphabet within the database – the Registration books.

In order to provide our researchers with an insight into works of archivists and other scientists that have works published in the "Ex Pannonia" magazine, authors Zoran Veljanović and Dijana Musin have written a Bibliography of this magazine.

Bibliography of the "Ex Pannonia" magazine is an informational aid which enables access to information about the subject of research and relevant documentation.

So far, 152 articles by almost a hundred authors have been published on 1250 pages in Ex Pannonia, mostly from the field of historiography and archival science but also from the field of museology, history, arts and music, ethnology, ecology, biology etc.

The publishers of this Bibliography are "Malo istorijsko društvo" from Novi Sad and City Library in Novi Sad.

The Historical Archives of Subotica, Municipal museum of Subotica and Municipal cultural monument Institute have put on an exhibition about the City Hall of Subotica, on the "Dan grada" celebration day.

The exhibition was opened by Modest Dulić, mayor of Subotica. The mayor gave an inspiring speech about the greatness of the City Hall, how many treasures and valuables were kept here as it was the safest place, how many important decisions by various rulers at the time have been made inside the walls of this building but also how the City Hall itself is actually here for all the citizens of Subotice since they are married there, registered upon birth, attended concerts, exhibitions or if they just hid form a sudden rain storm under it's arches. The City Hall is always in our lives, for what ever reasons.

At the opening of the exhibition, our fellow archivist Zoltan Meszaros gave a speech and among other things said: "A hundred years is a long period of time, far longer than an average human life so there are no witnesses today to the building of the City Hall, however the City Hall stands witness of the life of Subotica..."

In the meantime, the Archives has overtaken a lot of archival material. Today, there are 473 fonds and collections, 220 of which are presented in the first book of the new Guide. The second book of the Guide is in preparation and the editors are Zoran Veljanović and Tatjana Segedinčev, the archivists who worked on the first book too. Chief Editor is Stevan Mačković and the publisher is The Historical Archives of Subotica.

Ex Pannonia magazine is an unavoidable step to finding out about details from the history of the North Backa region. It is also provides a way to learn more about the archival science or related sciences.

The Archives presents a temple of collective memory and it's the Archives' mission to nurture that memory even before the documents reach its repositories. It is not a graveyard for paper but a sort of plantation. Each document is waiting for its moment to be rediscovered.

This year the Historical Archives of Subotica organized for the 5th time a professional counseling conference "Arhivski dan".

The participants of the conference have prepared scientific papers on the relevant archival subject which this year was connected to the Active records management department which is a department in the Archives that manages, controls and advises about the safe keeping and organization of the active records in the records creating agencies.

The guides through the exhibition were archivists Zoltan Mesaroš and Zoran Vukelić.

At the opening of the exhibition, the mayor of Sentes and the directors of the Historical Archives of Sentes and the Historical Archives of Subotica gave speeches to the guests after which a musical program followed.

The Historical Archives of Subotica was the host of the international archival conference "Šesti arhivski dan" held in the City Hall on September 20, 2013. The subject of the conference was "The public and the Archives". The participants of the conference were archivists from The Historical Archives of Subotica, The Archives of Bač-Kiškun county, The Historical Archives of Bela Crkva, The Historical Archives of Budapest, The State Archives of Vukovar, The Archives of Tuzla district, The Archives of Baranja county and The Historical Archives of Novi Sad. The hosts and the guest have prepared scientific papers on the relevant archival subject through which they demonstrated the role and significance of archives for the society.

On October 3, 2011, a delegacy from The Historical Archives of Subotica attended 'The XII Day of the Archives' in Keckemet. The subject of this gathering was: From the industrial and trades history of the Bač-Kiškun county. The Historical Archives of Subotica was presented by the director Stevan Mačković with a scientific paper with the topic National constitution of the industrialists of Subotica between two world wars.

On September 21, 2011, The Historical Archives of Subotica organized 'The 4th Day of The Historical Archives', an international gathering of the archives regarding the subject: 'Local historiography and archives'. There were 70 participants at this conference, archivists from 10 different Archives from Vojvodina, Croatia and Hungary. The program consisted of 13 scientific papers. Participants from The Historical Archives of Subotica were dr Zoltan Mesaroš and Zoran Vukelić presenting a scientific paper with the topic How to use the records in research of the local history, including the administrative fonds.

To download the mentioned scientific papers click here.

The exhibition was supported by:

• Ministry of Culture, Informing and Information System of Serbia
• County Secretariat for Culture and Public Informing
• Town of Subotica
• Hungarian National Council

On September 18 and 19, 2011, The Society of Archivists of Vojvodina organized a conference in Zrenjanin regarding the subjects: 'Archives and the public in contemporary society'; 'Arrangement of the archival fonds of the public service administration'. The Historical archives of Subotica had two participants: Zoran Veljanović with a scientific report 'Archives and the public (Addition to the theory of archival activity)' and Tatjana Segedinčev with a scientific report 'Records of the Town Hall of Subotica 1918-1941, formation, means of arrangement and the perspective'.

Subotica on Old Charts and Maps, an exhibition organized by The Historical Archives of Subotica, took place at The City Hall vestibule with an opening date on September 2, 2011. The exhibiton was open for 3 weeks and it had 39 exhibits. During those 3 weeks, there were 2300 visitors.

The conference was supported by: