Everyday Life
In order to understand a particular historical period, it is essential to understand what daily life looked like at that time. History of everyday life – history from below, the German Alltagsgeschichte, or the Italian microstoria – is a form of social history that became popular in the 1980s. This approach intends to find links between the experiences of daily life in a certain society, and the broad social and political changes which occur in that society. Finding tensions within relations between the subject (a human) and the structure (a social system) gives meaningful insight into a specific society or culture. Our materials focus on everyday practices and rituals of urban life, discuss the history of consumerism, and shed light on experiences of metropolitan nightlife. To learn about the everyday life of a specific period means to delve into specific sources, such as autobiographies and memoirs, letters and correspondences, photographs, and private recordings.
Primary Sources
![Image for Kharkiv workers on the arrests of Soviet oppositionists in 1929](https://edu.lvivcenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/IMG_20180618_114407-768x1024.jpg)
![Image for Galician Holiday Cooking in the Letters of the Hlynskyi Family, 1890s-1920s](https://edu.lvivcenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Ziskanovane_20240126-2-768x590.jpg)
![Image for Christmas and Easter in Lemberg in 1908: The Case of One Multidenominational Family](https://edu.lvivcenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/image00047-768x637.jpg)
![Image for A letter from Olha Barvinska, a teacher at the Lviv school, to her father, 1893](https://edu.lvivcenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/image00002.jpg)
![Image for Ryszard Gansiniec writing about everyday life of Lviv in 1945-1946](https://edu.lvivcenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/9788323546931-768x768.jpeg)
![Image for Secret report on the moods among Kharkiv factory workers at the time of May Day holidays in 1929](https://edu.lvivcenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/IMG_20180622_103607-768x1024.jpg)
![Image for Olha Maria Zhydacek and her husband Hryhoriy Bandurka, Lviv, spring 1939](https://edu.lvivcenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/24300_ca_object_representations_media_69106_large-1.jpg)
![Image for Photo of the physical exercises, Lviv, 1927](https://edu.lvivcenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/11_06_krypyakevych-768x358.jpg)
![Image for The Morality of Mrs. Dulska, 2013 TV Movie [Moralność pani Dulskiej]](https://edu.lvivcenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/moralnosc-pani-768x508.jpg)
![Image for For the Family Hearth, a 1970 film](https://edu.lvivcenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/dla-vohnyshcha-768x568.png)