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What Do Volleyball, Housewives, and Chinese Peddlers Have in Common?

The latest issue of Contributions to Contemporary History features eleven scholarly articles on the economic, social, and cultural history of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

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Who lived on our streets in 1830?

The renovated portal on SIstory offers various search options for historical censuses and access to transcribed and untranscribed digitised material.

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How did they try to tame the Drava, Savinja, Mura and Pesnica rivers?

A new book, Borba s poplavami (The Struggle Against Floods), explores how people in Lower Styria coped with flooding and regulated river flows during the 19th century and the first half of the 20th century.

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You are kindly invited to a new lecture in the History on the Edge series, which will take place on Wednesday, October 14, 2026, at the INZ premises or via the ZOOM link: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/85093074535?pwd=chFdSCgScVg8fw1djh3bVz8h9gqWtm.1 . In the new season, lectures will take place at 10:30 and if you will be joining us in person, you …

On 28 September 2026, the Institute for Recent History of Serbia opened the exhibition “Schools, People, Memories: Education of Children with Sensory Disabilities in Yugoslavia, 1919–1991.” The exhibition was created within the international research project “Systems of Care and Education of Children with Sensory Disabilities in the First and Second Yugoslav State” (J6-50189), which is …

We are delighted to announce the start of a new season of History on the Edge lectures! We are sharing the programme of lectures that will take place through the end of the year. The lectures will be held at the Institute of Contemporary History (Privoz 11, Ljubljana) and via Zoom. An important change this …

You are kindly invited to the first event in the new spinoff lecture series, the Edge of History. The new series will focus on the work of researchers from the Institute of Contemporary History, on their projects and new publications. The lecture will take place on Wednesday, October 7, 2026, at the INZ premises or …

The Slovenian History Portal – SIstory is part of the research infrastructure of Slovenian historiography. It is an online system that not only provides access to historical content relevant to the study of Slovenian history, but also allows researchers to create and use research data in a research environment.

The Contributions to Contemporary History journal is one of the most prominent Slovenian scientific historiographical publications. It informs the public of the latest Slovenian and foreign historiography research, focusing on the political, cultural, economic, and social history of Central and South-Eastern Europe in the 19^th, 20^th, and 21^st centuries.

INZ is also an academic publisher that publishes peer-reviewed, up-to-date research in the fields of the humanities and social sciences.

The Institute of Contemporary History in Ljubljana (INZ) has launched a Visiting Fellowship program in 2022.

The Institute of Contemporary History is the central scientific institution in the Republic of Slovenia that conducts humanities, contemporary history, and digital humanities research with an emphasis on historiography. It is the national coordinating institution for the national digital infrastructure for arts and humanities DARIAH-SI, and a member of DARIAH ERIC.