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The history of the League of Nations is currently undergoing a renaissance. This network provides the opportunity to trace developments in this fast-paced and emergent field, and for scholars to exchange their work and ideas.

The collapse of the bi-polar world order in the late eighties, combined with the emergence of the field of global history and the opening of key archives, prompted academics and policy-makers alike to return to the League in order to see how this earlier international organization sought to address problems of geopolitical competition and transnational risk that are similar to those we face today.

The greatly under-used archive of the League of Nations has become the foundation for much of this new research. Exploitation of these archives, combined with research in other private and organizational archives and collaborative research projects, has yielded new scholarly insights into the history of the League and the internationalism. These pages are intended to provide a way in to these new histories.

News

Occasional reports on recent events will appear on this homepage for the site - for information on future events, please look to the events page which will be kept fully up to date, and note that there is also a full archive of news that has been presented on this website.

Do feel free to contact admin @ leagueofnationshistory.org about any League of Nations news that you would like us to post into this section.

  • New book on the economic and financial work of the League - March 15th 2013
    The book "Securing the World Economy. The Reinvention of the League of Nations, 1920-1946" by Prof. Patricia Clavin has just been published in the UK by Oxford University Press and will be available in the USA in the next weeks.

    For details see: http://ukcatalogue.oup.com/pro

  • New article on the League of Nations - January 9th 2013
    New publication by Magaly Rodriguez Garcia, "The League of Nations and the Moral Recruitment of Women", International Review of Social History 57 (2012), Special Issue, pp. 97-128.

  • Call for Papers: The League of Nations and its Work on Social Issues - December 6th 2012
    An international symposium on the League’s efforts on social issues will take place on 31 October -1 November 2013 at the UNOG Library in Geneva.
    The symposium aims to go beyond the work of the League’s Social Section and to analyse the organisation’s global effort on social issues from three different perspectives: the League's work on social affairs; the League’s internal work; and national implementation of the League’s proposals.

    Researchers interested in participating are requested to send their proposals to mrodrigu@vub.ac.be by no later than 31 December 2012.

    The proposals (and papers if accepted) can be sent in either English or French.
    For details see: http://www.h-net.org/