The Network on Republicanism: a Shared European Heritage was approved by the ESF Executive Council in May 1995 and it was completed in January 1999.
The Chairman was Professor Quentin Skinner from the Christ's College in Cambridge.

The Network on Republicanism: a Shared European Heritage explores the European republican theory beyond the Renaissance, to envisage the history of the republican theory from a comparative perspective as a shared heritage of European culture. Main topics are: republicanism as anti-monarchism; the rise of commercial society; the political institutions of the republic; the political culture; the perspectives of republicanism in the future of the European Union.

The dossier contains addresses; correspondence concerning publications and Coordination Committee; Network proposal; correspondence on the organisation and management of the Network: agenda of the first meeting of coordinators, Cambridge, 2-3 June 1995.
Documents concerning the workshops: first workshop on "Republicanism as anti-monarchism" and meeting of coordinators, Gottingen, 17-21 April 1996: agenda of the meeting of coordinators, list of participants and scientific report of the workshop, correspondence. Papers of the Gottingen workshop: "Républicanisme et antimonarchisme. L’exemple Suisse" by François de Capitan; "Naples 1647-48. The making of a new republic: classical heritage and European models" by V. I. Comparato; "1572/1574. The Huguenot monarchimachs and Republicanism after the massacre of St Bartholomew" by Saffo Testoni Binetti; "L’antimonarchisme dans le républicanisme polonaise" by Anna Grzeskowak-Krwawicz.
Second workshop on "Republicanism and the rise of commercial society" and meeting of the coordinators, Wassenaar, 25-29 Sep 1996: scientific report of the workshop, report of the meeting, list of participants.
Third workshop on "The political institutions of the republic: discourse and practice" and meeting of coordinators, Perugia, 17-21 April 1997: programme and personal notes of the workshop, report and list of participants of the meeting. Papers of the Perugia workshop: "The founding and failing of the English Republic: the institutional story" by Blair Worden; "European Republicanism. Some personal concluding thoughts: session 3"
Programme, agenda and list of participants of the fourth workshop "Les mœurs républicaines: the political culture of Republicanism", held in Bordeaux, 24-28 Sep 1997.
Programme and list of participants of the Conference "The historical perspectives of Republicanism and the future of the European Union" held in Siena, 23-27 Sep 1998.

The dossier also contains the completion report by Martin von Gelderen, Oct 1999, and evaluations.

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