Contemporary History


Searching through historic newspapers from 23 European countries

This is the Press release about the European Library Portal for accessing Historic Newspaper from 23 European countries.”As part of the Europeana Newspapers project, The European Library developed a historic newspapers browser that enables users to perform full-text searches in millions of historic newspaper pages.”

CFP: “Memoria e Ricerca”. Twentieth Anniversary of an Italian Contemporary History Journal that published many EUI members and Alumni

In 2004 was organized in Sala Triaria, Villa Schifanoia at the EUI, a workshop coordinated by Peter Becker and Heinz-Gerhard Haupt to celebrate the first ten years anniversary (2003) of the Italian academic journal Memoria e Ricerca. A special issue of MR edited by Alexander C. T. Geppert and Massimo Baioni on “Esposizioni in Europa […]

Niall Whelehan published his EUI Ph.D. on Irish Nationalism with Cambridge University Press

In August 2012, Cambridge University Presses published “The Dynamiters. Irish Nationalism and Political Violence in the Wider World, 1867–1900“, by Niall Whelehan, (National University of Ireland, Galway). ThePh.D. Thesis was defended in the EUI History & Civilisation’s Department in September 2009. The Thesis can be consulted in the EUI Library and/or requested abroad through the […]