Power and Survival in KL Mauthausen: The Spanish Case - Diego Martínez López, 2023

The experience of Spaniards deported to Nazi camps has traditionally occupied a secondary position in historiography. Available evidence, however, indicates tha...

Food Waste and Survival in Times of the Soviet Famines in Ukraine - Iryna Skubii, 2024

This article focuses on the interconnections and interrelations between food, waste, people and state during a series of survival crises in the famines of 1921–...

Famine in Spain During Franco's Dictatorship, 1939–52 - Miguel Ángel del Arco Blanco, 2021

In the aftermath of civil war, Spain witnessed a period known as the ‘Years of Hunger’, which would extend throughout the postwar years (1939–52). The dictators...

Imperial Ruin and Military Waste on Johnston Atoll - Rohini Patel, 2024

In 1970, the United States military was ordered to halt the use of herbicides in the Vietnam War. The suspension pre-empted a series of considerations by the mi...

Unpacking Western Anticolonialism: Jagi-Jagi and the Second Spanish Republic, 1931–6 - Maria Reyes...

This article explores the appropriation of anticolonial language by the Basque radical newsletter and organization Jagi-Jagi (Arise-Arise). Although Jagi-Jagi i...

The Legacies of Transition, Street Renaming and the Material Heritage of Communist Dictatorship in...

The fall of communism in Eastern Europe did not bring about a radical and immediate destruction of the material heritage of communist dictatorships in the regio...

Spreading the Culture of Economic Growth: Productivity Missions and the Americanization of the...

This article examines how the Marshall Plan stimulated a culture of economic growth in postwar Germany, specifically through an international exchange programme...

The French Press in Wartime London, 1940–4: From the Politics of Exile to Inter-Allied Relations -...

This article examines the history of the French press that was based in London during the Second World War, focusing on its contribution to political debates of...

From Multiracialism to Africanization? Race, Politics, and Sport in Decolonizing Kenya - Kara...

Throughout the 1950s, colonial Kenya experimented with multiracial governance – maintaining separate racial identities and instituting group political represent...

One Voice Many Languages, Colonial Radio in India - Indira Baptista Gupta, 2023

Languages knit people together, but at All India Radio we witness the reverse trajectory. Radio's first 20 years, 1927–47, coinciding with the last 20 of B...

Book Review: The Break-up of Greater Britain by Christian D. Pedersen and Stuart Ward (eds) - Simon...

Open House Festival 2022 - The Wiener Holocaust Library

The Library is delighted to be participating in this year's Open House Festival, an opportunity for people to visit and gain access to a significant number of buildings, landscapes and neighbourhoods...

Liminal Liberalism? Ivan Kats, the Congress for Cultural Freedom, and the Obor Foundation in Cold...

The story of the Obor Foundation is important for several reasons. Firstly, it covers the contribution of an up-till-now largely overlooked Western philanthropi...

Pregnant Women, HIV, and Clinical Research to Prevent Perinatal Transmission in the 1990s - Sarah...

In 1994, American and French AIDS research showed that the drug AZT reduced the risk of HIV transmission from a pregnant HIV-positive woman to her fetus (perina...

The Hijacking of El Al Flight 426: The Advent of Air Terrorism - Dan Porat, 2022

On 23 July 1968, The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine hijacked El Al flight 426 en route from Italy to Israel and diverted it to Algeria. Scholars ...