25. July 2012
Press Review

When the Universal Postal Union was still in Swiss hands

Ausschnitt aus dem Logo des Weltpostverbands der UNO

From the founding year of 1874 up until the year 1966, the Berne-based Universal Postal Union (UPU) was presided by a Swiss. The election of the Egyptian Rahi broke with this tradition and caused turmoil in the political circles of the Federal Capital. Concerned with these events, an article based on research using the Dodis database was published in the “Berner Zeitung” on July 25 2012.

8. June 2012
Event

Die Schweiz anderswo

Die Diplomatischen Dokumente der Schweiz haben zusammen mit der Schweizerischen Gesellschaft für Wirtschafts und Sozialgeschichte sowie der Schweizerischen Gesellschaft für Volkskunde eine Veranstaltung zur Geschichte der Auslandschweizerinnen und -schweizer organisiert. Die Tagung fand am 8. Juni 2012 im Hauptgebäude der Universität Bern statt.

12. December 2011
Press Review

Dodis in 100 seconds

The programme «100 Sekunden Wissen» on DRS2 really deserves its name: it is a small, highly condensed ration of knowledge for the day. Recently, the research project Diplomatic Documents of Switzerland and the database Dodis had the honour to be presented in this popular radio programme in a witty way: Dodis aptly summed up.

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