In Europa

Europe in the twentieth century

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In Europa is the multimedia followup of Geert Mak’s modern history of Europe ‘In Europa’ [ISBN 9045011786]. VPRO’s Roel van Broekhoven televized the book in two television seasons, 37 episodes. The television series focuses on the stories of the individuals caught in the middle of European history. The website hosts all episodes, an interactive map of Europe and a weblog with stories from behind the scenes.

Here’s a promo (dutch).

http://www.ineuropa.nl

In Europa wins de Tegel award in the categorie internet/multimedia, 2007.

In Europa wins the Prix Europa in the category Emergin Media.
As a crossmedia project it provides different types of material and
most impressive for the jury: The project makes use of a wide variety
of contemporary web applications as for instance visualising the
context of historical material related to time and place by the use of
a map-based navigation method. It enables the users to combine
information about a certain event to different places all over Europe.