Between 1300 and 1922, when the Ottoman Empire was on the stage of history, it ruled over very large geographical areas such as Anatolia, the Balkans, Eastern Europe, the Caucasus, Turkestan, the Middle East, the Aegean and the Mediterranean basin, and then withdrew from the stage of political history. All kinds of written documents, information, documents and records produced by the Ottomans regarding the geographies they ruled for centuries are kept in their archives. Writing the 500-700-year history of many states, nations and political structures living today in the geographies listed above, based on documents, is only possible by examining these archives. The Ottoman Archives, the archival heritage of the Ottoman Empire, have been one of the main centers of Turkish and world historiography in terms of empirical material since 1846, when it was officially established under the name of Hazįne-i Evrak. Since 1846, when the archives were established as an independent institution during the reign of Sultan Abdulmejid (1839-1861), an institutional history of 177 years has been formed and the examination of this institutional history is important in terms of historiography. In this article, the recently published work on the history of archive studies titled Arşivciliğimizin Yüz Yılı (1846-1945) (One Hundred Years of Our Archivism) is discussed, and the book's contribution to historiography in general and to archival history research in particular is examined.