The war between Russia and Ukraine firmly locates major challenges relating to heritage, society and ethics in areas of armed conflict in the heart of Europe. DECOPE investiga…
Between 1946 and 1991, the Institute of Language and Literature of the Moldovan branch of the USSR Academy of Sciences recorded dialects of the Romanian-speaking community in …
The history of Balkan and Bulgarian Protestants is still little to the general audience. Persecuted by the communist government, Protestant Bulgarians hold documents containin…
Ferenczy Lukács and Kováts István Sr. were not only photographers, but also historians and ethnographers. Their photographs depict life in Transylvania between 1880 and 1925. …
During the Soviet administration, field researchers working in the institutes of the Moldovan branch of the USSR Academy of Sciences created recordings of folkloric beliefs an…
The Institute of Ethnology and Folklore Studies with Ethnographic Museum, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences holds one of the earliest archives in Southern Europe. It collects hand…
The Shevchenko Scientific Society united Ukrainian scientists in Lviv between 1873 and 1939. It played the role of the Academy of Sciences before the foundation of the Ukraini…
Colonel Darvingov and photographer Aleksandar Bozhinov lived through the Balkan wars and the First World War. During the wars, they collected photographs and illustrations of …
The Vasile Parvan Institute of Archaeology in Romania holds thousands of photographic materials. The archive is a source of information for archaeological research and monumen…
