A historical investigation into the shift from widespread gun culture to progressive restriction (1870–1970) — and how it reshaped security, public order, and citizenship.

“A Continent Disarmed? Gun Culture, Gun Control and the Making of Western Europe” (EU-GUNS) is a historical research project that investigates lawful gun possession and the use of small firearms by law-abiding civilians in Western Europe between the 1870s and 1970s.
Over the course of a century, Europe underwent a silent revolution that transformed it from a continent where firearms were part of everyday life and culturally accepted to a space where civilians were largely disarmed, while gun ownership became associated with deviance and…

A comparative historical study of how British, Italian, and French ports monitored, regulated, and suppressed small arms circulation between 1890 and 1939

GlobArms is a comparative historical research project examining the strategies employed by public and private law enforcement agencies to monitor, regulate, and suppress the trade, distribution, and smuggling of firearms across British, Italian, and French ports between 1890 and 1939. Focusing on a critical yet understudied dimension of modern European history, the project explores how firearms circulation was policed at the nexus of domestic security and transnational commerce. During this era, the global arms trade expanded exponentially, with weapons…