The Uses of History in the Media Coverage of the European Union – 2004-2019

This dissertation is found at the confluence of Digital Humanities, Media Studies and History. Digital Humanities because it makes use of digital methods and tools to gather and interpret information. Media studies because we are studying the media coverage of the European Union across a defined chronology and our primary sources are born-digital newspaper articles, and History because we contextualise our sources according to their historical moment (contemporary European History, Post-Maastricht European politics) and we examine several interpretations and appropriations that key 20th century historical events and actors undergo in the corpus. These historical interpretations are then correlated both to ideas of Europe and to views on the European Union and European Integration.