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At the University of Vienna more than 10,000 personalities work together towards answering the big questions of the future. The Department of Economic and Social History is now looking for…

Mikhail Velizhev and Emilio Mari are inviting papers about MICROSTORIE LETTERARIE. MODELLI E PROSPETTIVE DI RICERCA IN AREA SLAVA to be published in the special issue of the Italian online…

We are happy to announce that the Middle Eastern Studies journal published Dr Egemen Yılgür's new article, titled "The 1858 tax reform and the 'other nomads' in Ottoman Asia". The…

An English-language online PhD-course is offered free of charge at Eötvös University Budapest in the spring semester of 2022. Those interested are welcome in a restricted number. The application deadline…

The online presentation of Daniele Andreozzi’s new book: Intrecci di vite. Pratiche, mercantilismi e razionalita economiche nella Trieste del Settecento will take place on 22 June 2021, 5.00-6.30 pm. All those…

The MicroWorlds Lab is a physical, social and intellectual space at Duke University providing the possibility to research and write historical stories through microanalytical methods and practices by providing a community environment…

You might have noticed some changes to our website. As the network is growing, we felt that the site should grow to. Our goal is to update the site to…

Routledge already published two books in the Microhistories series in May, with a third one already scheduled to be released during the summer: Sigurður Gylfi Magnússon’s Emotional Experience and Microhistory, which explores…

In honour of Elizabeth and Tom Cohen, an international conference was held on 1-3 November 2019 at York University, Toronto, Canada: “Making Stories in the Early Modern World.” Conference program:…

In the summer, no less than five new books were published by Routledge in the series Microhistories: Angelo Torre’s Production of Locality in the Early Modern and Modern Age: Places.…

The volume suggests a new way of doing global history. Instead of offering a sweeping and generalizing overview of the past, we propose a ‘micro-spatial’ approach, combining micro-history with the…

Ruptures in the Everyday. Views of Modern Germany from the Ground Lead Authors: Andrew Stuart Bergerson and Leonard Schmieding 342 pages, 22 illus., 4 maps, blbliog., index ISBN  978-1-78533-532-7 $120.00/£85.00…

Microhistory and the Historical Imagination: New Frontiers An issue of: Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies Volume: 47 Issue: 1 Description Microhistory first developed in the 1970s and 1980s…

Budapest, 11 June 2017 Dear Colleagues, First, I would like to welcome the colleagues who joined the Microhistory Network in 2016. By now, the number of members is 104 from…

Sigurður Gylfi Magnússon – Davíd Ólaffsson:  Minor knowledge and Microhistory. Manuscript Culture in the Nineteenth Century. Routledge, 2017. This book studies everyday writing practices among ordinary people in a poor…

Losonczy and Aldana: Colliding military conceptions at 16th century Hungary (Dániel Molnár) Prostitutes’ family life and divorce in Budapest, 1867–1918: The normal exception (Áron Tőtös) Migration from a small rural…

Bragi Bergsson (University of Iceland, Reykjavík) Elizabeth S. Cohen (York University, Toronto, Canada) Thomas Cohen (York University, Toronto, Canada) Oddgeir Fossli (Volda University College, Norway) Guðný Hallgrímsdóttir (University of Iceland,…