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Operative TV: Audiovisual Closed-Circuits from the Military to the Classroom, 1930s-1990s
The SNSF PRIMA project “Operative TV: Audiovisual Closed-Circuits from the Military to the Classroom, 1930s-1990s” studies the uses of TV in industrial, medical, educational and military contexts.
Hans Eugen Steiner (1907-1962) : un destin national
Des milliers de tirages originaux, 7500 planches contacts, des centaines de diapositives et 106'000 négatifs du photographe Hans Eugen Steiner (1907-1962).

Education and the European Digital Agenda: Switzerland, Germany and Sweden after 1970
This database documents the educational implications of technological change in information and communication technologies (ICT) between 1970 and 2000, focusing on political initiatives in Europe.

University of Basel Kings’ Valley Project
Assessment of tombs in the Kings’ Valley used for burials of royal family and entourage (ca. 1350 BCE), looted (ca. 1000 BCE), and reused for burials of members of priestly families (ca. 800–700 BCE).

Textures of Sacred Scripture
Textures of Sacred Scripture. Materials and Semantics of Sacred Book Ornament in the Western Middle Ages, 780-1300

Historische Lernprozesse erforschen – Research of Learning Processes in History (RicH)
Die RicH-Studie erforscht die Operationen narrativer Kompetenz und deren qualitative Unterschiede anhand eines Novizen-Experten-Vergleichs zwecks empirischer Fundierung eines Progressionsmodelles.

Healing Arts. Representations and Practices of Medical Knowledge in Art and Literature (9th-12th centuries)
The project explores the entangled histories of botany, art and health. It considers plant images in early medieval herbals as modes of knowledge that articulate and negotiate medical practices.

Musiklexikon der Schweiz
Das MLS stellt fundierte Information über die AkteurInnen, Institutionen, Orte, Objekte und Phänomene zur Verfügung, die für die Musikgeschichte Schweiz über alle Sparten und Stile relevant sind.

Bilddatenbank Bibliothek St. Moritz
Bibliothek St. Moritz Dokumentation is the local history archive of the community of St. Moritz, Switzerland.

Globalgeschichtliche Perspektiven im Schweizer Geschichtsunterricht
Das Forschungsprojekt liefert empirische Ergebnisse auf breiter Basis zu Potentialen von globalgeschichtlichen Perspektiven im Geschichtsunterricht.

Interactive Historical Atlas of the Disciplines
The Interactive Historical Atlas of the Disciplines aims to map data related to the history of academic disciplines and provides tools to visualize the evolution of disciplinary borders over time.

Digital Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae (Digital LIMC)
Digital LIMC contains what we know about the iconography of Greek, Etruscan and Roman mythology, both in ancient Greek, Etruscan and Roman art as well as in neighbouring Mediterranean cultures.