The start of reforms in training historians by Sigitas Jegelevičius

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The Historian and the Source: Some Contemporary Problems in Holocaust Historiography by Nerijus Šepetys

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25th Annual Forum of Young Legal Historians: Introduction by Wouter De Rycke, Cornelis Marinus in ’t Veld, Maxime Jottrand, Romain Landmeters, Stephanie Plasschaert

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Do Historians Upset Politicians? Once about Polish-Lithuanian Relations by Alfredas Bumblauskas

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The models of behaviour ofthe old generation historians in the presence of sovietization process by Aurimas Švedas

“…Historians with the "bourgeois past" were closely watched and some of them even came under the real threat of repressions. …”
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Akin Ogundiran: The Historian and Archaeologist of Yoruba-Atlantic becomes Chancellor Professor at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte by Toyin Falola

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The problems of Lithuania's self-dependence in the 20th century as discussed by historians in the period of 1988-1990 (historiographic review) by Ona Biveinienė

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Med det förflutna för ögonen by Samuel Rubenson

“… At a retirement it is natural to have the past in front of you, in particular as a historian. But contrary to what we normally think – that we have the past behind us and the future in front of us – all of us in reality look at the future through the past. …”
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Debating Toynbee's theory of challenge and response: Christian civilisation or Western imperialism? by F. Hale

“… In his 1952 Reith Lectures on the British Broadcasting Corporation, “The World and the West”, the eminent London historian Professor Arnold Toynbee sought to explain inter alia why western European hegemony over much of the world was widely resented. …”
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On the nature of civilization in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania by Alfredas Bumblauskas

“… The article by the medievalist historian presents a critical review of the reports on the nature of civilization in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania in Polish, Russian, German, and Lithuanian historiography based on the definition of civilization by the Polish theorist of history, Feliks Koneczny ("Civilization is a method of arranging communal life"), and proves that this civilization was neither Western-Latin nor Eastern-Byzantine, but, rather, quite an independent one, with its own necessary minimum of European values.   …”
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Immigrant Gambling in Finland by Perpetual Crentsil

“… An anthropological study of gambling among immigrant groups in Finland can reveal much about how the society organizes its way of life in categories  elevant for the economist, sociologist, political scientist and the historian. Anthropological studies of other aspects of immigrants’ lives—remittance giving, socio-economic status, and development issues in origin countries—usually present immigrants as ethnographic subjects. …”
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Bọlanle Awẹ: The Matriarch of Feminist History by Toyin Falola

“… At the celebration of the 70th anniversary of the founding of the University of Ibadan, famous historian, Professor Bọlanle Awẹ was conferred with a well-deserved honorary doctorate degree. …”
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Ancient Art in the Collection of the National Museum in Gdańsk by Grzegorz First

“…The only definite aspect is the acquisition of some items: Coptic fabrics from the collection of Robert Forrer—a Swiss collector, antiquarian, archaeologist, and art historian. The remaining artifacts stored in Gdańsk have not been thoroughly studied; they do not form a homogeneous collection, and it cannot be ruled out that they may also be remnants of former bourgeois collections dating back to the 16th century or German collections acquired in Gdańsk after World War II. …”
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Book Review: Decolonizing the Mind (by Sandew Hira) by Patrick Delices

“…This non-Westernised narrative is deeply discussed in Decolonizing the Mind : A Guide to Decolonial Theory and Practice by decolonial scholar, economist, historian and activist Sandew Hira. The aim of Hira’s Decolonizing the Mind is to deeply engage decolonial theory and practice as an alternative to the prominent thinking of the West as illuminated in liberalism and Marxism. …”
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Johannes Hoornbeeck, a monumental 17th Century Dutch theologian: continuities in his thinking on doctrine and life by J. W. Hofmeyr

“…In a later article, the focus will move to his contributions as a systematic theologian, as an historian, as a missiologist, and as a socially engaged theologian with an irenical and ecumenical orientation, in spite of him being a strong polemicist. …”
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Die Filistynse plaag in 1 Samuel 5-6: medies-teologiese verlarings

“…We thus consider that the 1st century AD Jewish-Roman historian, Josephus, was correct when he stated that the Philistine epidemic was dysentery: bacillary dysentery is a disease caused by a micro-organism which spreads from person to person by way of oral-faecal infection in a situation where there is poor hygiene, as was probably the case in 11th century BC Philistia. …”
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“True fiction” – the memory and the postmemory of traumatic war events in a picturebook by Magdalena Howorus-Czajka

“…The transcription of the Second World War memory into picturebooks is especially interesting for me as a historian of art. I analyse the artistic styles adapted by the artists to express difficult topics, such as the holocaust, the horror of concentrations camps, hunger, fear, loss of family, death. …”
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The epidemic of Justinian (AD 542): a prelude to the Middle Ages by Francois P. Retief, Louise Cilliers

“…The symptoms of the disease, as described by various contemporary writers (especially the historian and confidant of the emperor, Procopius, and the two church historians, John of Ephesus and Euagrius), are discussed. …”
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Marching towards the Cruzada: Douglas Jerrold's road to nationalist Spain by F. Hale

“…Perhaps no English Catholic played a more central role in the almost daily war of words in the secular and religious press than Douglas Jerrold (1893-1964), a lay publicist, novelist, and amateur historian whose Tory sentiments and disillusionment with liberal democracy and the course of modern civilisation in general permeated his writing. …”
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سندھی سیرت نگاران کی کاوشوں کی تلخیص و ترجمانی by Ayesha Sadiqa, Tehmina Ghani

“…He was a renowned expert in Maghazi (accounts of the Prophet's battles) and a mentor to the famous historian, Imam Waqidi. In the second century Hijri, Imam Abu Mashar authored Kitab al-Maghazi, the first Seerat work by a Sindhi scholar. …”
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