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 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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6 – 9 September 2017 PREWArAs team member presents his paper at the ECPR General Conference in Oslo. The European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR) General Annual Conference is hosted at the University of Oslo, in Norway. The event will create the opportunity for exchanging ideas and sharing the best thinking in the discipline. The
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Discussing the case of Political violence in France from the French Revolution to the late 1800s at the American University of Rome Dr. Romain Bonnet, PREWArAs Researcher and team member gives a lecture at the American University of Rome (AUR) and presents the case of “Regime Changes and Political Violence in France, 1789-1889”. The lecture
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PREWArAs Researcher and team member Romain Bonnet focuses his research on the Jaunes (the “Yellows”, a French independent labour Union) and on strike-breaking groups, both of them are significant examples of Armed Associations operating in France before the outbreak of WWI.
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PREWArAs Researcher and team member Romain Bonnet visits the Bibliothèque de Droit et de Lettres in Dijon, which preserves an interesting collection of Doctoral Theses dating back to the period 1890 – 1922 and dealing with the topic of legitimate defense, which is strictly connected to the legal framework allowing armed associations to operate in
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