Call for Postdoctoral University Assistant
2023-11-02
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…
Call for Papers
2023-04-13
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…
The 1858 Tax Reform and the ‘Other Nomads’ in Ottoman Asia,
2023-03-20
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…
Online PhD-course
2022-01-19
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…
Online Presentation of Daniele Andreozzi’s New Book
2021-06-21
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 MicroWorld Lab at Duke University
2020-10-16
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…
Updating our website
2020-10-16
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…
Publications by Routledge in 2020
2020-05-31
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…
International Conference in honour of Elizabeth and Tom Cohen
2019-11-08
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:…
Publications in the second half of 2019
2019-09-25
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.…
Christian G. De Vito – Anne Gerritsen (eds): Micro-spatial histories of global labour. Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
2017-10-14
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
2017-06-15
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…
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studied Vol. 47
2017-06-15
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…
Bulletin June 2017
2017-06-11
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.
2017-06-11
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…
Papers presented
2017-06-10
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…
Participiants
2017-06-10
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,…