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The story of the a doctors villa (Dr. Nicolas Huberty (1890-1976)) and his friends (among them first communist minister Dr. Charles Marx (1903-1946)) helping two French pilots to escape Germans in 1940.

The German soldiers who fell during the Second World War were buried in large cemetery complexes throughout Europe. Construction and design guidelines drawn up by the Wehrmacht itself put national socialist ideology into a concrete form, furthering the myth of sacrifice for the fatherland. Hitler appointed a special architect, Wilhelm Kreis, to design gigantic memorials. In the course of the war both the Wehrmacht and the architect had to adjust their plans to the realities of war; the "heroic" plans could not be realized.

The aim of the master thesis "Le Luxembourg aux origines de l'OTAN (1948-1953)" is twofold. On the basis of a theoretical model studying the behaviour of Luxembourg as a small state in multilateral organisations, the thesis intends to analyse the Grand-Duchy's strategy in the negotiations leading to the creation of NATO and its first years of existence. In the second part, the research focusses on how the country's membership in the Transatlantic Alliance impacted its domestic policy.

Dans son édition d’avril 2016, la revue d'histoire luxembourgeoise « Hémecht » a publié l’article « Le Benelux et les réfugiés fuyant l’Allemagne nazie: les spécificités du Luxembourg » rédigé par Frank Caestecker et Denis Scuto.

We are pleased to announce the Inaugural Issue of the Journal of Historical Network Research, a new publication dedicated to historical research by means of theories and methodologies developed in social network analysis and network science.

histograph helps institutions reveal the manifold relations between their digital collections of texts, images, audio and video documents.

BLIZAAR project develops new visualization techniques for the exploration of multimedia document collections

The story of a Russian POW saved and hidden by his Luxemburger friends in 1944 told by two eyewitnesses.

The story of the castle built by the inventor of accumulators Henri Owen Tudor (1859-1928).

The virtual exhibition of the history of Radio Luxembourg / RTL is the result of a research seminar at the University of Luxembourg, curated by students of the Master in Contemporary European History under the supervision of Prof. Andreas Fickers.

This paper describes a prototype geo extension to an open source graph-based tool designed for analysing co-occurrence in large multimedia collections of historical resources. Employing an interdisciplinary approach, combining tools and practices from humanities and geography, we explore how it can be extended to facilitate both social and spatial enquiry. For the prototype development we