Ramon Alberch: "The key documents of Barcelona were kept in boxes with three locks"

Ramon Alberch (Girona, 1951) is a historian and archivist. He has served as director of the Girona Municipal Archive, Chief Archivist of Barcelona, ​​director of the Barcelona Municipal Institute of History, and deputy director general of Archives for the Generalitat of Catalonia, where he negotiated the return of the Salamanca Papers. He is also one of the co-founders and the first president of the Association of Archivists of Catalonia. Internationally, he chaired the Municipal Archives Section of the International Council on Archives (2000-2004) and was the driving force and first president of the NGO Archivists Without Borders. He has recently published *Fem arxiu, construïm ciutat* (We Make Archives, We Build the City), a history of the Barcelona Municipal Archive from 1249 to the present day. We spoke with him about cats and rats, documents and power, Barcelona and Catalonia.