Class 1

Introduction to everyday history: the Alltagsgeschichte School; writing social history, finding the historical sources of everyday life. Professionalization in a historical perspective

Class 2

The emergence of the modern metropolis in Central Eastern Europe, and the growing need for specialists in city life

Class 3

Teachers and pupils at the crossroads of systematization and mass education before the Great War

Class 4

Petty merchants in the Habsburg Monarchy: efforts at professionalization and the challenges of inflation/shortages under the Great War

Class 5

The trends of internal migration and urbanization in the light of the First World War

Class 6

The concierges of apartment buildings in the interwar years: living standards, trade unions, employment issues and the effect of the Wall Street Crash

Class 7

The private life of Central Eastern European butchers and their professional problems

Class 8

Physicians, engineers, lawyers: the "unfree" professions until the Second World War

Class 9

The everyday practice of trust: the interwar world of insurance and banking

Class 10

Concierges and butchers in the attraction of power: social changes in the 1930s and 1940s and the agency of ordinary individuals

Class 11

A side-effect of anti-Jewish legislation: the empowerment of concierges during the Nazi reign in Budapest. Butchers and concierges among the beneficiaries of the Second World War

Class 12

How to survive a political transition? Countering the early post-war retribution: how everyday professionals could survive a change on the macro scale even if they were accomplices in the Nazi crimes