LONSEA: Searching the Globe through the lenses of the League of Nations

The LONSEA database illustrates the history of international organisations and global governance. Its focus is the material collected by the League of Nations on the proceedings of international activities from 1919 to 1946.

LONSEA was created by historians of the research projects "Networking the International System" and “Subaltern Diplomacy 1930-1960” at the University of Heidelberg, Cluster of Excellence "Asia and Europe in a Global Context". Since 2017 the database is maintained by the Institute for European Global Studies, University of Basel. Madeleine Herren (Project Leader), Christiane Sibille (Project Coordination), Christof Meigen (Technical Realisation and Programming), Benjamin Auberer, Timo Holste, Cornelia Knab, Carolin Liebisch and Maya Okuda(Project Members).

Not found what you are looking for?

Browse International organisations, People, Places, or Topics.

• Search for international organisations or persons: go to the organisations or people site and use the search-box on the top of the right margin.
• Find international connections and relationships: the conditional tag clouds in the right margin of each site offer to combine different information to find connections and relationships between organisations, places, and persons.
• Search for international activities in a certain city or region: browse places via our geographic search Please note that geographical units could be listed under different names. Here we recommend to browse through the list of places as well.
• See also the search help site

LONSEA status

At the moment, we have 12359 people, 3868 places, 1161 organisations and 20 topics in our database.