The new issue of ARO 2024/2 opens with a FORUM dedicated to the events of urban planning in Europe, the central theme of the volume edited by Max Welch Guerra, Abdellah Abarkan, María A. Castrillo Romón, and Martin Pekár, European Planning History in the 20th Century: A Continent of Urban Planning (New York, 2023), reviewed by Marika Fior and Christoph Strupp.

Following this, numerous reviews of books ranging from early modern to contemporary history are presented, with the aim of examining topics such as the monetary circulation system, infanticide in pre-industrial Europe, welfare policies, and, regarding more recent periods, the history of the German Chamber of Commerce, the role of the mafia during the landing in Sicily, and the origins of the Italian right. These titles represent just some of the topics addressed in the reviews included in this issue.

The main novelty of this issue concerns the renewal of the editorial board, established in the summer of 2024. This new board, distinct from that of the Annals/Jahrbuch, is made up of permanent members of ISIG, post-doc researchers, doctoral students, as well as some scientific collaborators and visiting researchers from Italian and German universities, who are listed here.

In the current organization, the members of the editorial board actively participate in the various phases of preparation of the journal, which is configured as a virtual place of scientific exchange, in addition to representing a useful observatory for monitoring the developments of European historiography.

On this occasion, we would also like to remind you of the procedures adopted by our journal for the reviews: publishers, institutions, and authors can notify us of new publications. However, reviews are assigned solely by the editorial board, and we cannot accept reviews submitted spontaneously. If you are interested in writing book reviews for ARO in the future, please contact the editorial team (aro-isig@fbk.eu), indicating your research area or sector of interest.

We hope you will enjoy this issue!

Katia Occhi