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SIstory presents an extensive digitised collection of official gazettes in one place, enabling users to explore legislation and the country’s development over time.

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Who lived on our streets in 1830?

The renovated portal on SIstory offers various search options for historical censuses and access to transcribed and untranscribed digitised material.

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How did they try to tame the Drava, Savinja, Mura and Pesnica rivers?

A new book, Borba s poplavami (The Struggle Against Floods), explores how people in Lower Styria coped with flooding and regulated river flows during the 19th century and the first half of the 20th century.

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You are kindly invited to a new event in the new spinoff lecture series, the Edge of History. The new series will focus on the work of researchers from the Institute of Contemporary History, on their projects and new publications. The lecture will take place on Wednesday, November 11, 2026, at the INZ premises or …

In October 2026, the Slovenian History Portal – SIstory celebrates its 18th anniversary. Since its launch in 2008, it has developed into an important part of Slovenia’s research infrastructure and a central online platform providing access to digitised historical sources, scholarly literature, and research data. The portal, developed as part of the research infrastructure for …

How has life in the Karst village of Tomaj changed over five centuries? How have major social, economic, and political transformations affected its inhabitants? Our colleague Dr Meta Remec, together with historian Dr Aleksander Panjek from the University of Primorska, appeared on Glasovi svetov (Voices of Worlds) on Radio Ars. In a conversation with Alja …

On Tuesday, 3 November 2026, at 1:00 p.m., you are invited to a lecture by Sarah Oberbichler from the Centre for Modern and Digital History (C²DH) at the University of Luxembourg. The lecture, titled “LLMs for In-Depth Analysis: Where Are the Limits of Scaling?”, will take place in the reading room of the Institute of …

The Slovenian History Portal – SIstory is part of the research infrastructure of Slovenian historiography. It is an online system that not only provides access to historical content relevant to the study of Slovenian history, but also allows researchers to create and use research data in a research environment.

The Contributions to Contemporary History journal is one of the most prominent Slovenian scientific historiographical publications. It informs the public of the latest Slovenian and foreign historiography research, focusing on the political, cultural, economic, and social history of Central and South-Eastern Europe in the 19^th, 20^th, and 21^st centuries.

INZ is also an academic publisher that publishes peer-reviewed, up-to-date research in the fields of the humanities and social sciences.

The Institute of Contemporary History in Ljubljana (INZ) has launched a Visiting Fellowship program in 2022.

The Institute of Contemporary History is the central scientific institution in the Republic of Slovenia that conducts humanities, contemporary history, and digital humanities research with an emphasis on historiography. It is the national coordinating institution for the national digital infrastructure for arts and humanities DARIAH-SI, and a member of DARIAH ERIC.