Areas of research

The areas researched by the staff of the Nicolaus Copernicus University’s Institute of History and Archival Sciences primarily include:

• Ancient history: Greece, Rome, Byzantium
• Medieval and general history of Poland; urban history
• Modern and general history of Poland
• 19th-century and general history of Poland; history of Polish lands under partition
• 20th-century and general history of Poland; World War II
• History of the Baltic Sea region
• History of the Kuyavia-Pomerania region
• History of the Teutonic Order
• History of Toruń; studies on Nicolaus Copernicus
• Sites of memory / places of remembrance
• Military history, especially of the 20th century
• History of the Catholic Church
• History of Protestantism in Poland
• History of Polish diplomacy in the 20th century
• History of Polish political emigration in the 19th century
• History of food and culinary heritage
• Historical statistics and demography
• Auxiliary sciences of history: heraldry and sigillography
• Methodology of history; historiography and anthropology of history
• Regional history and regional education
• Teaching of history and civic education
• Archival sciences
• Records management
• Historical chanceries, with particular emphasis on Old Polish and Prussian history
• General and Polish history of archives
• Organisation and functioning of historical archives
• Organisation and functioning of contemporary offices and archives
• Social communication within institutions
• Public institutions and PR