To highlight another fantastic digital resource Peripheral Histories? editor Susan Grunewald spoke to the Blavatnik Archive , a...

As we expand our special series on libraries and archives to highlight collections that are easily accessible from the UK or online,...

Our archives and libraries series is back with new interviews related to digital primary source collections, as well as with archivists...

Josef Butler The 1951 UK census identified 162,339 Polish-born individuals settled permanently in Great Britain. [1] Of this cohort,...

Author Interview with Susan C. I. Grunewald Susan Grunewald’s recently published book From Incarceration to Repatriation (Cornell...

Karina Khasnulina At the beginning of the First Five Year Plan in China, Mao Zedong said: ‘What can we make at present? We can make...

Author interview with Vicky Davis Vicky Davis’ recently published book Central Asia in World War Two: The Impact and Legacy of Fighting...

Tyler C. Kirk is Associate Professor and the Arthur T. Fathauer Chair of History at the University of Alaska Fairbanks.  His research...

Leah Johnson “We all grew up with the history of Estonia, the injustice of that history… what the Soviets did. And as I was growing up,...

Anna Efimova “Take my money and give me a kiss” In July 1913, two individuals of Azeri descent[1] residing in Tiflis disseminated an...

Founded in 2016, the Peripheral Histories? blog and digital history project is a platform for spotlighting ongoing research on the...

Karli Storm-Närväinen Even the most democratic of aspiring nation-states can be likened to bastions of memory, particularly when...

Author interview with Fabian Baumann Fabian Baumann's recently published book, Dynasty Divided: A Family History of Russian and Ukrainian...

Alexander Osipov The confrontation between the Reds and the Whites was the main plot of the Civil War in Russia, although a comprehensive...

How can the history of the Russian Empire and Soviet Union be studied through international organisations? For our archives and libraries...

We continue our archives and libraries series with a conversation with Katie McElvanney, a Slavonic and East European Curator at the...

For the next instalment of our archives and libraries series, we spoke to Igor Cașu, head of the National Archives Agency in Moldova....

For our archives and libraries series, Peripheral Histories? editor Siobhán Hearne spoke to Anton Vatcharadze, Shorena Osipova, and...

For the second post our of archives and libraries series, Peripheral Histories? editor Catherine Gibson spoke with Sven Lepa from the...

Our latest Peripheral Histories? series is all about the places that are essential for researching histories of Eastern Europe and...