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This blog is produced by the students of the Master in European Contemporary History of the University of Luxembourg. It has been created within the framework of our “Digital Humanities” class. Our goal is to retrace and follow European historiography. It is intended for History students, teachers and European historiography connoisseurs. We will add sources coming from social networks as Twitter or Facebook, bibliographical references concerning books about European history, reviews of history works and articles made by ourselves or by History teachers.

 

About the RTL Virtual Exhibition

Welcome to the virtual exhibition of the history of Radio Luxembourg / RTL. This exhibition 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. Did you know that the history of Radio Luxembourg goes back…

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World War One goes Twitter

A battle in 140 signs. A whole peace negotiation put into two lines. History written in tweets. The interest in dates and facts of contemporary history is growing, going beyond academic circles. The Master students of European Contemporary History at the University of Luxembourg made it their business to go beyond – via social media.…

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DH Glossary

As part of the Digital Humanities Winter School 2016 in the Digital History Lab of University of Luxembourg, the Master students have developed a DH Glossary, with terms discussed along the Digital Source Critique module, given by Prof. Andreas Fickers. The following students have so far contributed to the project: Aurélia Lafontaine Ben Mahnen Christian…

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