Tag: First World War
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”
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”