“We can and we must”: The scientificity of trade-union history-writing in the Soviet Union in the 1920s by Roman Gilmintinov

“…Instead of engaging with professional historians, the new regime initiated a whole range of large-scale participatory projects incorporated into political and public institutions to produce new, revolutionary history. …”
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De l’histoire numérique à l’histoire données ? by Cédric du Mouza, Stéphane Lamassé, Philippe Rygiel

“…Historians have been rigorously producing and analyzing information long before the emergence of big data and the digital age. …”
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La guerre et le canon by Michel Matly

“…This validates comics as pertinent sources for historians or sociologists, but also put our own representation of the war into perspective, as not more than the look of “here and today”. …”
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USSR and revival of Indonesian Communist Party by L. M. Efimova

“…For more than two generations, historians have been asking themselves whether Moscow participated in the organizational and ideological revival of the Indonesian Communist Party (PKI) in 1951-53. …”
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Encodage et décodage des récits historiques. Un cas : la série Le Canada, une histoire populaire by Olivier Côté

“…This article, based on the investigation of the CBC documentary archives and of the fond Ramsay Cook , examines the circulation of historical narratives within Canadian society through the analysis of the context of production of the TV series Canada: A People’s History – what we call ‘narrative encoding’ –, the study of the dynamics between CBC’s journalists and historians, and the decoding of this ‘encoded’ historical narrative by TV viewers who sent their e-mails to the CBC. …”
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Représenter volailles et volaillères dans la peinture italienne du Cinquecento by Valérie Boudier

“…Artistic image has a language of its own the Art historians attempt to decipher by analyzing the objectives, conventions, styles, and techniques of each work. …”
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Behind the Myth: The Representation of the Crimean War in Nineteenth-century British Newspapers, Government Archives & Contemporary Records by Tri Tran

“…In the end prominent historians consider the Crimean war was in many aspects useless and costly; the argument of this paper is that painful historical truth came to be hidden in the depth of Britain’s national consciousness, behind a few comforting Victorian myths.…”
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Il y a un siècle, le mouvement pour le suffrage des femmes en Irlande by Máire Cross

“…This article looks at how Irish historians have presented the question since the development of gender history. …”
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D’allié à ennemi. Stéréotypes et représentations du combattant russe dans les magazines illustrés français durant la Grande Guerre by Raymond Blanchard, Joceline Chabot, Sylvia Kasparian

“…Recent research in the social and cultural history of the Great War views literary, media, and iconographic productions as a significant aspect of the individual and collective war experience, and scholars see these productions as forming « war cultures ». Historians analyze these « war cultures » partly through the press, which position at the crossroads of government propaganda and public opinion makes it an effective tool for understanding popular mobilization in the context of a total war. …”
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Biblioteca del Niño Mexicano (1899-1901) y Episodios Mexicanos (1981-1982) : ficciones históricas ilustradas, ¿sólo para niños ? by Marie Lecouvey, Helia Bonilla

“…The second one is illustrated by several teams of designers, led by teams of historians and scholars of other social sciences; it is published by the Secretary of Public Education with the initial goal of giving access to all (children and adults) to the historical truth. …”
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Conquête d’un milieu, adaptation à une multitude de réalités : l’exemple de la conquête romaine des espaces oasiens égyptiens by Evelyne Ferron

“…The archaeological diggings started late in this area, but because of the quantity of artefacts and documents available for the Roman period, it allows now historians specialised in Roman history to study the oases during Roman occupation. …”
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De la memoria a la historia. Un estado de la cuestión sobre la participación española en la resistencia by Diego Gaspar Celaya

“…However, the paper pays special attention to the work of three French historians –Geneviève Dreyfus-Armand, Denis Peschanski and Emile Temime–, the three pioneers who theorized about oblivion and evolution of Spanish resistance studies, and about the official recognition of Spanish figthers. …”
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Les Souverains Anonymes : des archives carcérales du « dedans » by Simon-Olivier Gagnon, Anne Klein

“…Since 1999, a website has been online, which constitutes a form of archive of prisoners over which they have control, unlike the archives of police and judicial institutions, which are generally the documents through which these people are seized, whether by police officers and judges or by historians. As an expression of the concerns of the incarcerated, these archives not only make it possible to write a history from prison, but they are also the manifestation of a singular relationship to the world that is constructed over the course of the archiving process.…”
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Aspectos da representação do território paulista em sua cartografia impressa: uma análise cartobibliográfica (1833-1932) by José Rogério Beier, Daniel Marhtin

“…Yet, even today, many works produced by historians still relegate maps to a lower category of documents or, worse, still, use them only as an illustration or in a very punctual way, usually linked to the location or the topography of the space considered. …”
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Une justice froide ? L’ambiance thermique dans le palais de justice de Paris au XVIIIe siècle by Adrien Pitor

“…In keeping with the work dedicated to soundscape by historians such as Alain Corbin and Arlette Farge, this paper intends to consider the palais de justice of Paris in the 18th century as a setting for a study on temperature in the built environment. …”
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LEADING THEORIES IN AKWA IBOM COLONIAL HISTORIOGRAPHY by Edet Efiong Okon

“…European scholars, missionaries, historians and scientists were dislodged to perfect Britain's ambitions in Akwa Ibom area through various ideological and pseudo-scientific postulations. …”
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PhotosNormandie, un projet collaboratif de redocumentarisation de sources patrimoniales iconographiques by Patrick Peccatte

“…The project has been active since January 2007 and is made up of enthusiasts with complementary skills, including archivists, documentalists, historians, teachers, etc. The regular activity of the project over sixteen years has made it possible to considerably increase the quality of the descriptions and to enrich them with new information. …”
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Economic transformations of mid-1960’s in the USSR: modern assessment of historical experience by D. S. Orlov

“…XX century works of historians and economists who study the indicated problem are used. …”
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La Ratio studiorum de 1599 et la normalisation de la figure du contestataire au sein des collèges de la Compagnie de Jésus by Véronique Castagnet‑Lars

“…The recent historiography of student history invites us to re-read “the Genealogy of the ratio Studiorum” of 1599 (Dominique Julia) in order to highlight the work of the first two generations of Jesuit teachers concerning the typical profile of the troublemaker, a type of student one would not expect to find in a Jesuit school whose teachers, as historians have insisted upon so far, perfectly master discipline. …”
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A Handlist of Illustrated Early Solomonic Manuscripts in German Public Collections by Sophia Dege-Müller, Jacopo, Vitagrazia

“… Illustrated manuscripts in the Ethiopic language, as material objects that carry textual and visual information, are among the most valuable sources of data for art historians specializing in this area. This article provides a handlist of illustrated early Solomonic manuscripts housed in German libraries and museums. …”
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