This text refers to the complex relationships between archive, memory and history, based on the previous icons dossier dedicated to “(Re) think archive”. Rather than a criticism, it is an open comment, arising from its reading. The purpose is to discuss some trends in the perception of these relationships, aimed at: (1) assume that there is only one way of doing history and thus a single way to relate to the archive; (2) not to differentiate types of files and thus not to see escape points in relation to bad archiving; (3) confuse history and memory or, on the contrary, radically separate them without searching for contact points between the two and 4) conceive memory solely in relation to history (or the Anthropology) without paying attention to their often more dynamic link with fields such as cinema and contemporary art.