Kristo Nurmis “Ready to Die for Liberty: Tiny Estonia to Declare War on USSR as well as on Reich.” So proclaimed The Boston Globe in July...

Hanna Maria Aunin   In January 1988, the editorial board of the Tallinnfilm studio signed a contract with Rein Saluri for a feature film...

As part of the series that discusses ‘peripheries’ in the Baltic states, Rasa Kamarauskaitė (RK) of the BASEES Study Group on the Baltic...

Kateryna Budz One of the most popular Ukrainian carols is ‘Nova Radist’ Stala’ (‘A New Joy has Come’), which tells the story of the birth...

It is no secret that the Peripheral Histories? editorial team is comprised of a few historians of humanitarianism who are rather...

Mann Loper The establishment of Estonia’s independent statehood in 1918 took the political and cultural freedom of Estonians to an...

Rosario Napolitano Establishing Baltic Studies in Interwar Italy In the aftermath of the First World War, the Western powers paid...

Rasa Kamarauskait ė (RK) As part of the series that discusses ‘periphery’ in the Baltic states, Lithuanian sexuality scholar Rasa...

John Freeman The early modern eastern Baltic Sea has often been considered, with some criticism, a global periphery in comparison to the...

For our special series on libraries and archives with collections easily accessible online, Peripheral Histories? editor Priska Komaromi...

To highlight another fantastic digital resource Peripheral Histories? editor Susan Grunewald spoke to the Blavatnik Archive , a...

As we expand our special series on libraries and archives to highlight collections that are easily accessible from the UK or online,...

Our archives and libraries series is back with new interviews related to digital primary source collections, as well as with archivists...

Josef Butler The 1951 UK census identified 162,339 Polish-born individuals settled permanently in Great Britain. [1] Of this cohort,...

Author Interview with Susan C. I. Grunewald Susan Grunewald’s recently published book From Incarceration to Repatriation (Cornell...

Karina Khasnulina At the beginning of the First Five Year Plan in China, Mao Zedong said: ‘What can we make at present? We can make...

Author interview with Vicky Davis Vicky Davis’ recently published book Central Asia in World War Two: The Impact and Legacy of Fighting...

Tyler C. Kirk is Associate Professor and the Arthur T. Fathauer Chair of History at the University of Alaska Fairbanks.  His research...

Leah Johnson “We all grew up with the history of Estonia, the injustice of that history… what the Soviets did. And as I was growing up,...

Anna Efimova “Take my money and give me a kiss” In July 1913, two individuals of Azeri descent[1] residing in Tiflis disseminated an...