Projects

7 June 2022

Between fear and hope

The first quarter of the 20th century brought about lasting change for Europe and its population. So far, little research has been devoted to the frame of mind and the emotions of rural populations in the era surrounding the First World War. The Graz-based historian Harald Heppner and his team are exploring how the rural […] Continue reading

Projects

7 January 2019

Welfare state born out of crisis

The minutes of the meetings of the Habsburg Monarchy’s Council of Ministers were largely decimated by the 1927 fire at the Palace of Justice in Vienna. Historians are piecing together step by step the records that did survive. Most recently their work focused on the years between 1914 and 1918. The issue of food shortages […] Continue reading “Welfare state born out of crisis”

Projects

31 December 2018

The colonial echo of the First World War

In the context of a project funded by the Austrian Science Fund FWF, sound recordings of African prisoners of war made during the First World War were for the first time taken out of the archives and investigated. Neglected to date, these sources provide valuable audio testimony of the Great War, colonial policy of the […] Continue reading “The colonial echo of the First World War”

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