Historiana, EuroClio’s online alternative to a European History textbook, is a constantly growing platform gathering hundredth of resources about various topics and time periods. This virtual learning environment offers a flexible and well-suited approach to an ever evolving subject. It provides free historical content, ready-to-use learning activities, and innovative digital tools developed by a team of history educators from across Europe and beyond. Historiana’s development is informed by the EuroClio manifesto and seeks to provide resources that are complex and multi-perspective to promote critical thinking.

There are over 50 source collections available on Historiana and more than 100 eLearning activities. Below you can find some of the favourite resources of our network.

Here is a non-exhaustive list of material that is particularly appreciated and used by our network.

Historical Content

Teaching and Learning Content

  • The use of matching exercises to assess the internalisation of notions
  • The use of life stories to enhance students’ understanding of the connection between past and present
  • “Match!”: making connection between concepts and symbols in an entertaining manner
  • Learning about central but tricky concepts
  • Doing research on one’s own family history