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A multidisciplinary conference hosted jointly by Parliament’s UK Vote 100 Project, the History of Parliament Trust and the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities at the University of Westminster This major international conference marks the centenary of the 1918...

The History of Parliament will be embarking on a three-year research project funded by the British Academy and Wolfson Foundation. History’s Director, Paul Seaward, will explore the nature of parliaments’ institutional life: what are the ideas and practices that...

Adéla Gjuričová from the Institute of Contemporary History in Prague received a 3-year grant from the Czech Ministry of Education within the Inter-Excellence scheme. This will make it possible for the Institute to take a share of the EuParl.net administration, to...

»Fraktionen im Deutschen Bundestag 1949–1990« is an exceptional project of the German Kommission für Geschichte des Parlamentarismus und der politischen Parteien (KGParl) dealing with the records of the meetings of CDU/CSU, SPD, FDP and the Green Party (as of 1983)....

Carla von Baalen from the Dutch Centre for Parliamentary History/Montesquieu Institute was appointed the head of a committee of inquiry concerning the finance of Royal Family of the Netherlands. The committee investigates a supposed deal between the Dutch government...

Monday, 4 September 2017 The network is spreading further south and east, adopting new members from Romania (Sorin Radu from Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu), Russia (Alexander Semyonov from National Research University-Higher School of Economics in St. Petersburg)...

Monday, 14 August 2017 Our four-year Academy of Finland Project “Supra- and Transnational Foreign Policy versus National Parliamentary Government, 1914-2014”, is approaching its end and is producing several related publications. In June 2017, we organized an...

onday, 24 April 2017 The Board of Directors held their annual meeting on 10 April 2017 at the Institute of Contemporary History of the Czech Academy of Sciences in Prague. The board discussed the current projects as well as planned activities, adopted new members,...

Tuesday, 15 December 2015 Videos of the international workshop 'Complex Parliaments in Transition: Central European Federations Facing Regime Change', organised by the Institute of Contemporary History (16 October 2015, Ljubljana, Slovenia) are now available. The...

Monday, 5 October 2015 The program of the international workshop ‘Complex Parliaments in Transition: Central European Federations Facing Regime Change’ in Ljubljana (16 October 2015) is available. Download the program The workshop is organised by the Institute of...

Monday, 5 October 2015 Speaking in Parliament: history, politics, rhetoric Queen Mary University of London 6-7 April 2016 Call for Papers Thanks to the presence of television cameras in its debating chambers, the spectacle of Parliament is familiar to everyone who...

Thursday, 17 September 2015 A workshop organized by two EuParl.net members, namely the Institute for Contemporary Historyand the Kommission für Geschichte des Parlamentarismus und der politischen Parteien, took place in Prague on February 27, 2015. It brought nearly...

Friday, 1 May 2015 The April 2015 EuParl.net Newsletter has been issued. In this newsletter more information on the international EuParl.net conference in Berlin and other upcoming events organised by EuParl.net members is available. Our summary of a recently...

Tuesday, 25 November 2014 The November 2014 EuParl.net Newsletter has been issued. In this newsletter EuParl.net presents some of the upcoming activities and we present an ambitious program for the next three years, including annual conferences in Berlin, London and...

Tuesday, 11 November 2014 The annual EuParl.net conference 'Criticism of Parliamentarism & Anti-parliamentarism in Europe since 1789', 7-8 May 2015, in 2015 will be organized by the Kommission für Geschichte des Parlamentarismus und der politischen Parteien....

Monday, 15 September 2014 EuParl.net welcomes Jure Gašparič as a new member of the board. Jure Gašparič  is researcher at the Institute of Contemporary History in Slovenia.

Sunday, 8 June 2014 The June 2014 EuParl.net Newsletter has been issued. In this newsletter, you will find more details about the third EuParl.net International Conference, news from our participants, and recent relevant publications in Europe.

Monday, 21 April 2014 EuParl.net is pleased to announce a new member. The Department of Political Sciences of the Sapienza University of Rome has joined the network. Department of Political Sciences of the Sapienza University of Rome conducts research in many fields...

The conference announcement of the 3rd European Information and Research Network on Parliamentary History (EuParl.net) Conference & the 9th Annual Jyväskylä Symposium on Political Thought and Conceptual History (12-14 June 2014) is now available as pdf on this...