The funds of the historical archive
The documentation covers a chronological span from 1693, the date of the oldest register concerning Medicine examinations, to the 1960s, with some later exceptions. The cataloguing of new collections and the analytical revision of older inventories is an ongoing project that can be consulted online:
- Regia Università degli Studi di Torino collection: preserves documents and registers relating to the various functions carried out by the University, both at the central level and within the individual Faculties. These include minutes of governing bodies, institutional correspondence, accounting and property records, and personnel management documents.
- Faculty collections: student career registers, minutes of degree examinations, and records of Faculty council meetings. These reflect a complex institutional development involving mergers of pre-existing schools (Pharmacy, Veterinary Medicine, Teacher Training), twentieth-century foundations (Agriculture, Economics and Commerce), separations (Science and Humanities; Law and Political Science), mergers (Medicine and Surgery unified only from the mid-19th century), and suppressions (Theology in 1873). Due to the flood that affected the archive repositories in 2000, student files are no longer preserved; however, academic careers can still be reconstructed through career registers and examination records. To facilitate research, a database is currently being developed.
- Degree theses.
- Associated archives: the School of Midwifery of Vercelli (from 1859 to 1977, with documents dating back to 1732), the Piedmontese University Consortium (from 1877 to 1929; from 1943 to 1972), the Carlo Alberto College for students from the former provinces (from 1739), the Mutual Aid Society for Employees (from 1894 to 1923), and the School of Corporate Culture for Trade Union Leaders (1929–1932).
- Archives of personalities connected to the University of Turin. To date, these include the papers of the physicians Gianluigi Turco, Rodolfo Amprino, Marco Treves, Ernesto Bechis, and Giacomo Mottura; the mathematician Giuseppe Bartolomeo Erba; the historian Pietro Egidi; the art historian Enrico Castelnuovo; the computer scientist Corrado Böhm; and the Germanist Anna Chiarloni.
- Several volumes of great importance for the history of the University, such as the complete collection of the Annuario (from 1875–76 to 2002–03), part of which is now available online.