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À la suite de l’«appel aux étrangers vivant en France» lancé le 29 juillet par Ricciotto Canudo et Blaise Cendrars et largement repris par la presse dès le début du mois d’août, des centaines de Luxembourgeois sont autorisés à signer à partir du 22 août 1914, comme de très nombreux étrangers de France, un engagement volontaire pour la durée de la guerre au sein de la Légion étrangère. Bien d’autres sujets luxembourgeois le feront encore durant les quatre années d’une guerre que personne n’aurait pu imaginer aussi longue et meurtrière.

Le 19 juin 1983, au Conseil européen de Stuttgart, le Premier Ministre, Pierre Werner, signe la Déclaration solennelle sur l'Union européenne. Ce document programmatique affirme la nécessité de « progresser vers une union toujours plus étroite entre les peuples et les États membres » et considère l’amélioration des institutions communautaires et la coopération politique comme clé de voûte pour plus d’Europe. Trente-cinq ans plus tard, ces desiderata trouvent un ample écho dans l’actualité.

The Treaty establishing the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC) signed in Paris on 18 April 1951, set up a number of institutions to carry out its activities: a High Authority, assisted by a Consultative Committee; a Common Assembly; a Special Council of Ministers; a Court of Justice. After the signing of the ECSC Treaty, an interim committee instructed to submit proposals concerning seats of the institutions, was unable to reach agreement. Many cities were suggested, such as Liège, Strasbourg, Turin or Saarbrücken.

This paper reflects on media tactics and engagement in amateur media practices from a longue durée perspective. More specifically, it addresses the question how discourses on and from users of different amateur and home movie technologies – from film via home video to digital media – reflect various forms of engagement, adaptation and resistance in amateur user practices. In the history of amateur filmmaking, a wide variety of users can be identified – from family filmmakers to cine-club hobbyists or even avant-garde artists.

The question addressed by the project is to what extent can digital tools and methods assist the detection of scale-related patterns in historical writings.

After one exciting year of existence, the C²DH publishes its first annual report - in a fully digital format.

Benoît Majerus and Anne Roekens (Université Catholique de Louvain) have edited a special issue ‘Histories of Psychiatry’ of the Journal of Belgian History. The issue contains five articles exploring different research trends. Two of these contributions were by members of the C²DH: Benoît Majerus and Eva Andersen.

As Prime Minister and Finance Minister of Luxembourg over several decades, Pierre Werner shaped the future of his country and was one of the rare statesmen to play a part in the progress of European integration until the mid-1980s. He played a major role in regional integration (BLEU, Benelux) and in EEC policy-making and gained a strong reputation for forging a political consensus between larger powers (Germany and France)and between diametrically opposed positions (‘economists’ vs ‘monetarists’).