Some 12.5 million enslaved people were shipped from Africa to the Americas in the early modern period. The "Prize Papers" project visualises shipping…

On January 27, people around the world commemorate the victims of the Holocaust. In this interview, history educationalist Dietmar von Reeken talks…

Malte Rolf is a professor of Eastern European History. In this interview he talks about the historical roots and significance of Russia’s war against…

How can historical objects and documents in museums and archives be preserved, interpreted without bias and made more widely accessible using digital…

A royal invitation – such as may reach some concerning Charles III's upcoming coronation – and the noble wardrobe is confiscated? Student Justin…

Clara Willmann has uncovered a piece of local emigrant history. In her bachelor thesis, the student explores what centuries-old letters reveal about…

When his namesake predecessor held the throne, England seemed "turn’d upside down" - Charles III also enters his reign in turbulent times. Historian…

What do a French composer in present-day Haiti, a Flensburg missionary overseas and a Bremen sailor on board a ship captured in the English Channel…

The world is watching the war in Ukraine. Historian Hans-Christian Petersen knows its background as well as people in Ukraine. An interview about…

Capturing "enemy" ships and their cargo was once considered a legitimate tactic of warfare - including an own jurisdiction. The open-access portal of…

Why we are already writing the history of the Covid pandemic: an article by historian Malte Thießen.

Hundreds of thousands of documents from the period between 1650 and 1815, long forgotten and for the most part unsorted, are the focus of the Prize…

Today, coffee and tea are dietary staples for many people, but 400 years ago stimulants such as coffee and tea were exotic rarities. The collaborative…

Escaping city life and fleeing to the countryside – industrialisation and urbanisation made this a tempting option for many intellectuals in the 19th…