SOCIAL HISTORY AS REVEALED BY GESTURE: CHANGING EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY STYLES OF MEETING AND GREETING

This essay explores the significance of changing styles of interpersonal greetings in Britain in the long eighteenth century (from 1700 to the 1850s). Everyday rituals of hat honour, when men removed their hats and women curtseyed, were increasingly undertake...

DELINQUENCY OR ENLIGHTENMENT? THE WORKS OF MARQUIS DE SADE

This article is an attempt to explore and offer new interpretations of the personality and works of the notorious Marquis de Sade. A topical matter, de Sade’s literature is important today, as it was back in the past. His impact has shaped the ideas of sev...

THE GERMAN PRISONERS OF WAR IN GULAG AND THEIR IMPORTANCE FOR THE USSR

Between 1941 – 1945 around 3,2 million German POWs are confronted with the harsh realities of the Soviet GULAG. From them 1,1 million die of exhaustion, illnesses and hunger. This article will try to follow the journey of the German POWs from the battle field...

WARTIME SOFIAAND THE PREPARATION FOR AIR DEFENCE (SPRING 1941 – SUMMER 1943)

Since the Kingdom of Bulgaria had joined the Tripartite Pact on 1 March 1941, until the middle of 1943, ordinary Bulgarians lived with an illusion of a “symbolic war”. Life was much more difficult than the pre-war years, traditional Bulgarian goods graduall...

NORTHERN TRAKIA – CASES OF MIGRATION AND DEPORTATION DURING XV – XVII CENTURY AND THEIR HISTORICAL CONTEXT

The aim of the discourse is to add informatively, so far as it is possible, and contextualize direct and indirect records from initial document sources for the status and the settlement of ethnocultural communities, different from the Bulgarian (Tartarian, Ser...

ARCHAEOLOGICAL RESERVES AND ARCHAEOLOGICAL MUSEUMS IN SITU IN BULGARIA. APPEARANCE AND HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT

The interest in preserving the immovable heritage in Bulgaria emerges during the Revival period after starting searching and describing archaeological monuments. Moreover, in 1857 a collection of archaeological finds from Pliska and Preslav is established in...

HISTORY EDUCATION IN BULGARIAN SUNDAY SCHOOLS ABROAD – PROBLEMS AND PROSPECTS

The article examines the problems and challenges of history education in Bulgarian Sunday schools abroad.

PERMANENT INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH SEMINAR OF INTELLECTUAL HISTORY

A NEW RESEARCH OF THE MULTI-FACETED INTERACTIONS BETWEEN AUSTRO-HUNGARY AND THE BALKANS