European Parliament History Network

We have set up the European Parliament History Network (EPHN) to coordinate and disseminate research about the history of the European Parliament, to circulate information via our newsletter, invite subscribers to online events, and collect information about recently published books, articles, and chapters, which meaningfully relate to our focus. We understand this focus to cover the European Parliament's history from the setting up of the Common Assembly of the European Coal and Steel Community up to the present-day; its internal politics including political groups, committees, individual MEPs, and the administration; horizontal and vertical cooperation and competition with other institutional and political actors within and beyond the EU's emerging political system and relations with citizens; and policymaking in any domain, whatever the EP's changing formal powers. We foster historical and social science research with a temporal perspective, as well as interdisciplinary cooperation.