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by Rory Finnin, University of Cambridge In 2024 the Laura Shannon Prize in European Studies offered me something precious and even unexpected: a sense of community. Its greatest reward is a closer relationship with the students and scholars at Notre Dame's Nanovic Institute.

Interviewed by Taylor Soja Mezistrano and Lee discuss their ongoing collaborative work.

Interview by Taylor Soja The minds behind KRIA (The Icelandic Constitution Archives) discuss their efforts to preserve documentation of the different phases of Iceland’s constitutional reform process.

By Taylor Soja and Laurie Marhoefer The digital revolution is changing the history profession. Vast amounts of archival materials are now digital, and digital search has both sped up and fundamentally altered many aspects of historical research.

By Geoffrey Turnovsky It is no great insight to say that students today are increasingly reliant on the internet to do their reading and research for papers and projects. I measured the full scale of this trend in a 2019 class I taught on early modern French culture.

By Adrian Kane-Galbraith On May 30, 1963, Katherine Jones, the tenant of a cheap one-room flat in London’s West End, was hauled before the Hampstead Magistrates Court on grounds that she “did unlawfully and knowingly permit [the premises] to be used for the purposes of habitual prostitution.”

By Andrew Cole and Brooke Holmes When we think about the past, we contemplate “history,” and this in turn compels us to talk about “events” and assign them to a given “decade” or “century”—all of these, upon reflection, being hardly straightforward terms or processes.