On 29 February 2024, beginning at 5:30 p.m., the book launch of Secretum, Papi, guerre, spie: misteri dell’Archivio Vaticano svelati dal Prefetto che lo guida da un quarto di secolo, Intervista con Mons. Sergio Pagano (Popes, Wars, Spies: Mysteries of the Vati…
On 3 April 2024, Tamás Fedeles, co-head of the Fraknói Research Group and Head of Department Professor at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences of the University of Pécs, delivered a lecture entitled “The Last Medieval Hungarian Duke: Lawrence of Ilok …
On 6 April, Gábor Nemes, Senior Research Fellow of the Fraknói Research Group, appeared on the Hungarian television channel M5 in the history magazine programme História, which focused on Cardinal Tamás Bakócz, Archbishop of Esztergom. Drawing also on the resu…
On 23 May 2024, Volume XXI of the series Publikationen der ungarischen Geschichtsforschung in Wien (PUGW) was presented in Vienna. The monograph by István Fazekas, Die ungarische Hofkanzlei und ihre Beamten von 1527 bis 1690, was introduced by Thomas Winkelbau…
On 16–17 October 2024, the conference entitled Peaces and Treaties. Diplomatic History from Louis I to Francis II Rákóczi was held in Szeged, at the headquarters of the Szeged Academic Committee of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (MTA SZAB) and at the premis…
Between 16 and 18 January 2026, the Vestigia Research Group, in cooperation with the Institute of Historical Studies of Eszterházy Károly Catholic University (EKKE), organised a workshop in Eger, hosted in the university’s headquarter. Among the speakers were …
On 8 November 2024, the Military History Working Committee of the Pécs Regional Committee of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (MTA PAB), in cooperation with the Paks Town Museum, organised the conference entitled Military History across the Ages. Recent Resul…
On 4 December 2024, Péter Tusor gave an interview on the M1 television channel, prompted by the Vatican meeting held that day between Pope Francis and the Prime Minister of Hungary. As head of the Fraknói Research Group, he sought to raise his analysis above t…
On 28 October 2024, at the 11th Fraknói Workshop Lecture, I presented my latest research results under the title Fraknói, Haynald, Ipolyi and the Monumenta Vaticana Hungariae: Lessons of a Historiographical Discourse (2004–2024). The lecture reviewed my his…
On 13 March 2025, at the Special College Conference of Pázmány Péter Catholic University (PPKE), Olivér Kőhalmi, a second-year history student at PPKE and a contracted collaborator of the Fraknói Research Group, delivered a paper entitled “The Correspondence o…
Tamás Kruppa, Senior Research Fellow of the Research Group, gave a lecture in Monor on 22 June entitled The Bocskai Uprising and the Peace of Vienna. The event was organised by the Monorért Baráti Kör and the Monor–Nagytemplomi Reformed Parish. Following the l…
Between 17 and 19 July 2025, the academic conference entitled Central European History Convention was held at the University of Vienna. At the event, Viktor Kanász, research fellow of the Research Group, delivered a paper entitled “Relations between Rome and t…
The primary profile of the Fraknói Research Group is the continuation of exploratory archival basic research, first and foremost in the Vatican collections, closely linked to the historical study of relations between Hungary and the Apostolic See, as well as t…
Magyarország egyházmegyéi és püspökei (1804–1918). Intézménytörténeti és életrajzi lexikon V, szerk. Szirtes Zsófia–Tusor Péter–Véghseő Tamás–Rupert Klieber, munkatárs: Kőhalmi Olivér, Budapest 2026 (221 p. + [18] p. kommentált, ff. képmelléklet + [1] p. térké…
The Dioceses and Bishops of Hungary (1804–1918). Institutional and Biographical Encyclopaedia V, eds. Zsófia Szirtes–Péter Tusor–Tamás Véghseő–Rupert Klieber, collaborator: Olivér Kőhalmi, Budapest 2026 (221 pp. + [18] pp. annotated b/w plates + [1] p. map sup…
On 12 December 2025, an international online conference entitled “Unus non sufficit orbis”: Rome and the European Missions in the Late Seventeenth Century was held under the auspices of the Istituto Nazionale di Studi Romani (INSR), several collaborating Ital…
In honour of Bishop Antal József Peitler, the founder of the library, the Diocesan Library of Vác organised a jubilee conference entitled Library – Books – People on the occasion of its 150th anniversary. At the conference, the life and major achievements of …
On 28–29 November 2025, an international conference entitled Mohács 500 – Antemurale Christianitatis II was held in Pécs, at the Magtár Visitor Centre. The English-language event featured presentations by Hungarian, Polish, Czech, Croatian, Italian and Romani…
The editorial board of the series Publikationen der Ungarischen Geschichtsforschung in Wien (PUGW) held its annual working meeting in Vienna on 28 November. András Oross, who became series editor in 2021 (a position that did not exist before), reported on the …
On Monday, 1 December 2025, at 5:00 p.m., the Pontifical Gregorian University hosted the presentation of the edited volume Vatican Diplomacy and the Shaping of the West during the Pontificate of Pius XII, published by Studium. The Fraknói Research Group was re…