The Historiography of Students in Europe, 1800-1945. Some Comparative Perspectives

ISSN: 1988-8503 www.uc3m.es/cian Over the last three decades, the academic literature on the history of education has expanded substantially in most European countries.1 Within this wider field, the history of higher education and of universities has experienced significant, unprecedented growth. In 1998, this development manifested itself in the foundation of three new journals complementing the work of the older History of Universities journal launched in 1981: CIAN in Spain, the Jahrbuch für Universitätsgeschichte in Germany and the Annali di storia delle università italiane in Italy. Moreover, between 1992 and 2011, a collective effort to cover European higher education from the first medieval uni-