Here is the final programme for the ERC-PREWArAs Workshop on ‘Industrial vigilantism, strikebreaking and patterns of anti-labour violence, 1890s-1930s’. Keynote speaker Geoff Eley. Don’t miss it: 23-24 October – Oxford History Faculty ‘
Read moreCFP for the PREWArAs-École Française de Rome co-organised workshop on “Armed groups, organized violence and the Euro-Mediterranean spaces (1870-1914)”. Don’t miss the opportunity to apply!
Read moreCFP for the PREWArAs-Oxford co-organised workshop on “Industrial vigilantism, strikebreaking and patterns of anti-labour violence, 1890s-1930s. A comparative and transnational perspective” (Oxford, 23-24 October 2018). Let’s apply!
Read moreA new great talk of @PREWArAs_ERC seminar series: on Monday 9 April (8.30 Sala Bortolami @Dissgea), Dmitar Tasić (Università Federico II – Napoli) will give a paper on “Paramilitaries and forging new identities in the Ottoman Balkans 1903-1912”
Read moreDid you miss our conference? Thanks to Amerigo Caruso and Claire Morelon, an exhaustive report of our recent workshop “Armed Groups and Political Violence in Belle Époque Europe” has just been published on HSK.
Read moreDespite the conventional image of the Belle Époque as a time of peace, progress and optimism, the twenty years leading up to the outbreak of the First World War were a period in which the practice of organised violence was part of everyday life for thousands and thousands of male European men. Genuine paramilitary corps
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From December 12th to December 13th 2017 Matteo Millan and his ERC research team, accompanied by international invited speakers, will discuss the case of armed groups and political violence in France, the United Kingdon, Germany and the Austro-Hungarian Empire at the end of the 19th Century. The Conference will be held in Padova, at the
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PREWArAs Researcher and team member Amerigo Caruso visits the NRW Archive in Muenster to investigate how would private police operate during the miners’ strikes between 1890 and 1910 and what was its connection with local enterprises. The German archives preserve documents and resources of great interest on such type of Armed groups.
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