Scandal research has recently been booming in innovative research fields such as media studies and cultural studies. The main attention is not paid to the supposedly "scandalous" events, but to the question of how the scandal is produced and to the society that makes these scandals possible. Social and media history research approaches offer a completely new view of the past and thus also of archival sources. What do archival records say about secrets, moral codes, norm violations, and scandals? What reality does archival material depict? Such fundamental questions about archival sources arise quite consistently from these research approaches. The interdisciplinary conference will thus also explore the limits of depicting social-cultural realities and at the same time offer new perspectives for approaching history. Looking at scandals, their generation and their channels of communication opens up new perspectives on history and the sources with which it can be (re)constructed again and again.