In late March 2026, research assistant Matea Marušić continued her work at the Archdiocesan Archive in Split. She conducted a detailed examination of the records of the Makarska Diocese held within the Archive. As the materials are not systematically arranged or catalogued in a manner that allows for immediate identification, the process of reading and […]

From March 1 to 15, principal investigator Dr. Teodora Shek Brnardić and research assistant Marta Jurković stayed in Dubrovnik, where they collated transcriptions of letters written by the Dubrovnik nobleman and Enlightenment figure Miho Sorgo (1739–1796) in the collections of the State Archives in Dubrovnik. The Croatian Institute of History had previously signed an Agreement […]

Matea Marušić conducted research at the Archdiocesan Archive in Zagreb, focusing on the identification of sources relating to Andrija Dorotić. Particular attention was given to correspondence addressed to the Zagreb archbishop Maksimilijan Vrhovac between 1795 and 1814, as well as to archival fonds containing the archbishop’s diary and numerous other documents written in Croatian, Latin, French, and Italian. […]

On Tuesday, 3 February, the second annual meeting of the HRZZ project LIGHT was held at the temporary premises of the Croatian Institute of History. Following a review of the project’s achievements to date, the project leader, Dr Teodora Shek Brnardić, presented the research team with the work plan and objectives for the forthcoming project […]

Between 7 and 9 January 2026, Dr Maja Perić, Senior Assistant, participated in the 55th Annual Conference of the British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (BSECS). The conference, entitled Big and Small, was hosted at Pembroke College, University of Oxford. Dr Perić delivered her paper, Big Plans and Small Realities: The Organisation of the Rijeka Sugar Factory […]