Social Security in Switzerland

With over hundred published articles, the webpage „The History of Social Security in Switzerland“ provides a comprehensive insight into the current state of research on the development of the Swiss welfare state since the 19th century. Visit the project website.  

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Workshop with Prof. Peter Cornwell

On 10.11.2016 and 24.11.2016, Prof. Peter Cornwell (Westminster University / Data Futures) held a two day workshop on “How to use digital history tools in your research project“. Following a short introduction on the topic, students of the Basel Graduate School of History and Eucor network presented their projects and designed a data extraction workflow […]

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Workshop on data extraction for digitized source material

In the context of Prof. Dr. Madeleine Herren-Oesch’s lecture on “Global Moments: Fin de siècle and Orientalism in 1900”, the Institute for European Global Studies organized a one-day workshop on data extraction on 27.10.2016. In the process, workshop participants for the first time actively used the method of extracting and generating table of contents, a […]

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