As a neutral country, Switzerland was not involved in the devastating military c…

This article examines how Switzerland has remembered and commemorated the First …

Neutrality is a fundamental problem in modern Swiss history and played a pivotal…

This article analyses Swiss migration policy and Switzerland’s role as a country…

In a rapidly expanding universe of publications it is important to reflect from …

This article seeks to analyze how the International Committee of the Red Cross (…

Swiss governmental and non-governmental organizations were intensely involved in…

This article analyses the development of the Swiss labour movement and working-c…

During the First World War, many authors from neighbouring countries who spoke o…

This article describes the business development and the opportunities and risks …

Though Switzerland was not conquered, its economy was strongly affected by the F…

This article explores the war’s impact on women’s economic and legal status in S…

Ador was the third president of the International Committee of the Red Cross (IC…

Shortly after the outbreak of the First World War, the Swiss army moved into a s…

The life and works of the poet Blaise Cendrars testify to a disturbing paradox: …

Dada, a transnational movement of artists, was founded in Zurich in 1916. It dis…

A minority section of the women’s movements opposed World War I and organized th…

Robert Grimm was the most powerful socialist politician in Switzerland throughou…

The Spanish flu, the heaviest influenza pandemic in history, coincided with the …

During World War I, the idea of Switzerland as a peaceful island was created and…

From 12 to 14 November 1918, a national general strike took place in Switzerland…

In neutral Switzerland, the executive powers were strengthened more than in some…

During the 19th century, neutrality evolved into a set of legal and political to…

The so-called “Oberstenaffäre” (colonel’s affair) was a political scandal in Swi…

The Oltener Aktionskomitee was elected in February 1918 by the committee of the …

The Swiss Patriotic Federation (Schweizerischer Vaterländischer Verband, or SVV)…

The privately organized SSS existed from October 1915 to July 1919 to prevent Sw…

“Stimmen im Sturm” was a Swiss cooperative which published nine issues with deci…

During the First World War, the Swiss federal government imposed a state of emer…

The latter Austrian Land Vorarlberg saw the rise of a grass root movement for a …

Anti-war socialists from ten countries met in Zimmerwald in September 1915. They…

In the context of the Swiss organisation Schweizer Verband Soldatenwohl Else Spi…

The article examines international efforts to curb states’ war-making prerogativ…

This article compares the history of labour movements during the war across a ra…

The Treaty of Versailles was signed on 28 June 1919, the same day on which the L…

Many issues surrounding the conduct of war in the years 1914-1918 were imperviou…

National Red Cross societies played a very important role in the First World War…

This article deals with the nature of social conflict during the war. The length…

It may surprise us to learn that some sectors of the European public were in fav…