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Department of History

We investigate the global, comparative, and transnational history of Europe since 1400

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Summer School

Summer School in History - Intersectionality: Challenges and Opportunities for European History?

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Research highlight

The European Union – a neoliberal history?

As the 2024 European Parliament elections unfold, we asked EUI History Researcher Jonas Elvander to tell us about his recent book rethinking the history of the European Union in the framework of the history of neoliberalism, and what it tells us about the current challenges facing European democracies.

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Publications

The Department of History focuses primarily on the history of Europe, from the late medieval and early modern period to the present, in a transnational and global context.

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Article

Working around exclusive infrastructure : African workers and their families navigating race and gender on Rhodesia Railways, 1945–1964

This paper explores the myriad ways African railwaymen and their families negotiated their existence on the Rhodesia Railways.

AMMERMANN, Friedrich Niclas; SITHOLE, Nicole
2024

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Working around exclusive infrastructure : African workers and their families navigating race and gender on Rhodesia Railways, 1945–1964

Contribution to book

Pierre Des Maizeaux and the (Huguenot) business of translation in the early eighteenth century

Gaby MAHLBERG and Thomas MUNCK (eds), Ideas across borders : translating visions of authority and civil society in Europe c.1600–1840, Abingdon ; New York : Routledge, 2024, pp. 83-98  

THOMSON, Ann
2024

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Pierre Des Maizeaux and the (Huguenot) business of translation in the early eighteenth century

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'Una coscienza coloniale' : forging imperial women in the Fascist Colonial Institute of Bologna

This paper studies the Fascist Colonial Institute (ICF) of Bologna as a local space in which fascist ideals of empire, gender and class collided and were reproduced. 

DRIVER, Lewis Ewan
2024

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'Una coscienza coloniale' : forging imperial women in the Fascist Colonial Institute of Bologna

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The unusual suspects of social change : the sodalities of the Blessed Virgin Mary in late Austrian Galicia

The article joins the research on early twentieth century Catholicism’s transformation to meet challenges of rapidly alternating socio-economic conditions, respond to its ideological competitors,...

GRUZIEL, Dominika
2023

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The unusual suspects of social change : the sodalities of the Blessed Virgin Mary in late Austrian Galicia

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Les fabricants de la coopération économique et monétaire européenne : personnel et réseaux de la Direction générale des affaires économiques et financières de la Commission européenne, 1957-1992

L’Union économique et monétaire constitue l’un des plus grands chantiers de l’histoire de l’intégration européenne. 

DRACH, Alexis; MOURLON-DRUOL, Emmanuel

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Les fabricants de la coopération économique et monétaire européenne : personnel et réseaux de la Direction générale des affaires économiques et financières de la Commission européenne, 1957-1992

Events

News

Interview with Beata Javorcik, Oxford's first female Economics Professor

In the second episode of a series spotlighting accomplished female economists working in international organisations, Beata Javorcik, Chief Economist at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, delves into economic theories and her career trajectory.

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