Organisation: Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (C2DH)

  • News

    The First Digital Love Letters: A Hidden Story of Code

    In 1952, the Ferranti Mark I, one of the world’s first computers at the University of Manchester, did something extraordinary—it generated a series of randomly assembled love letters. These were no ordinary declarations of passion; they were written entirely by an algorithm.

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    Ferdaous Affan: Unraveling colonial propaganda with digital tools

    With a diverse background in data and knowledge engineering, plus using digitisation and AI in news archives, PhD candidate Ferdaous Affan aims to shed new light on the historical impact of colonial discourse. She shares more on the challenges of researching propaganda plus the enriching interactions she has had at the C²DH.

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  • Research Groups

    Public History ACTIVE Principles

    Like those components of a medicine that produce the desired effect, our active principles largely affect the ways in which we practice and reflect upon public history. They provide a summary of what the Public History and Outreach (PHO) Research Group at the C²DH stands for and what defines its work across projects and disciplines.

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  • Pages

    Faces of the C2DH- a team beyond borders

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    Faces of the C2DH- a team beyond borders

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  • Events

    Forced Laborers in Luxembourg: “Keiner weinte, es gab keine Tränen mehr”

    Book Launch with Inna Ganschow

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  • Events

    Humming Home, Public History and Sound (part 2)

    Online presentation and discussion with Dr. Lawrence Abu Hamdan.

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  • Events

    The datafied Web – RESAW 2025 Conference 

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  • Events

    (Re)searching Nineteenth-Century Fairground Ephemera: (Un)conventional Pathways

    Hands-on History talk with Bart G. Moens, University of Antwerp.

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    Western Double Standards in Media Coverage: A Continuing Dehumanization of BIPOC

    Recording of the lecture by Nayansaku Mufwankolo at the C²DH on 18 December 2024.

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