This concise people's history of Europe tells the story of the last hundred years of a very old continent and the ordinary people that shaped the events that defined it from World War I to today.

From the Russian Revolution, through May '68 and the Prague Spring, to the present day, we hear from feminists, trade unionists, conscientious objectors and activists and learn of immigration struggles, anti-colonial conflicts and labour movements. Cutting against the grain of mainstream histories, this is a history of Europe told from below.

Containing new and fascinating insights, Raquel Varela paints a different picture of the European story; one where ordinary Europeans are active agents of their own history.

Introduction
1. The War of the Wars, the Revolution of Revolutions, 1917 
2. The Controlling Man of the Universe: The Crisis of 1929, the Revolutions of the 1930s and Nazism 
3. "Midnight" in the Century: The Second World War
4. The 1945 European Social Pact 
5. Anticolonial Revolutions
6. Crisis and Revolution: from May 1968 to the Carnation Revolution 
7. The End of the Social Pact (1981-2018)
8. Immigration, Internationalism and Solidarity 
Conclusion