Noemi Steuerwald02.04.2025Ponies as the silky-smooth projection of feminine sensitivity; riding as a girl’s pink, heart-shaped dream. This cultural image, although common today, only emerged around the mid-20th century.
Juri Jaquemet31.03.2025Eurovision was the original name of cooperative pan-European programmes that were first broadcast on TV in the 1950s. This required a sophisticated radio relay network, with technologically advanced Switzerland at its heart.
René Roca27.03.2025The principle of the cooperative was indispensable to the establishment of Swiss democracy. The UN International Year of Cooperatives in 2025 demonstrates that this type of cooperation is also important at a global level.
Rachel Huber25.03.2025The ‘Cheesemeyer’ in Sissach was the first department store in the canton of Basel-Landschaft. Like Zurich’s Jelmoli, it was also a family business.
Kurt Messmer21.03.2025Social justice. Max Weber spent his whole life fighting for it ‒ as a trade unionist, politician and economist. In an age of extremes he moved with the times, in his own fashion. Many of the views he expressed are still relevant today.
Reto Bleuer18.03.2025From rebellious patricians and ammunition stashed in the city hall to a wave of arrests and a controversial trial – the Erlacherhof plot of 1832 was a turning point in the history of the canton of Bern.
Michael van Orsouw13.03.2025Empress Elisabeth of Austria, better known as Sisi, visited Switzerland nine times and was an admirer of Swiss art, of which she purchased two pieces – setting in motion a trail of events that led all the way to the Federal Palace in Bern.
