VENETS: the Belogradchik journal for local history, cultural heritave and folk studies

149-154

Authors: V. Borisov

The most recent three rhymes by Veselin Borisov are shown in the present article. Veselin Borisov is a professor of social medicine at the Medical University in Sofia. He was born in the village of Skomlya mear the town of Belogradchik. For his scientific achievements and public responsibilities in favour Belogradchik Professor Borisov was declared as an honorary citizen of Belogradchik.

175-189

Authors: E. Kozhuharova

The commemorative medals for the wars 1912 – 1913 and 1915 – 1918 were established in 1936. This articles is a archives investigation showing the persons, mainly from the region of Belogradchik, which were awarded with those medals.

201-208

Authors: I. Valev

The article focuses on the question “According to public perceptions, school for what is the conscription: school for war or school for peace; school for military training and education or school for national (civil) awareness and respon-sibility?”. The reason for posing this problem is the widespread public opinion that the return of "the compulsory military conscription" is an opportunity for prevention from certain negative social processes, which developed recently in Bulgaria. In fact, the article tries to indicate some possible factors, which influence public position about the benefits and negatives of the military training and education.

248-258

Authors: B. V. Toshev

Colonel Stefan Iliev was a commander of the 15th Infantry Lom regiment. He was killed in a battle during WWI at Chervenata stena, near Bitolya, Macedonia. His biography and his military activities in the wars 1912 – 1913 and 1915 – 1918 were described in a book by Emilia Kozhuharova.

266-287

Authors: R. Vladova

An annual bibliography of papers in the field of local history, family and community history, cultural heritage, folk studies and anthropology, published in 2016, is collected. The inspected journals are: Bulgarian Journal of Science and Education Policy, Chemistry: Bulgarian Journal of Science Education, Current Anthropology, Family and Community History, Folklore, History and Memory, Journal of Family History, Journal of Folklore Research, Past & Present, Winterthur Portfolio. Many of those journals are available at us under subscription.