The aim of this session is to shed light on the ways in which, during the long nineteenth century, historians and intellectuals construed European narratives. Matthijs Lok will take into consideration how Europe and European history was conceived of in the aftermath of the French Revolution, focusing on conservative thinkers and questioning some common assumptions about their views. Geoffrey Hicks and Jennifer Davey argue, in the paper, consider two aspects of Britain's nineteenth-century narratives about the European continent, namely, diplomacy and genre relations arguing that, there, one might find the roots of modern-day 'Euroscepticism'. Fernanda Gallo will consider how nineteenth-century thinkers understood the relationship between European history and the notion of modernity, looking at two historical narrations of modernity, defined by the Protestant Reformation and by the Renaissance, and considering how they influenced the different European identities during the XIX century. Danilo Breschi will examine political narrations of Europe in the nineteenth century, focusing above all on the works of Alexis de Tocqueville and on the contrast he posited between Europe and America – the latter being, in his views, the land without history. Foscari will consider instead Pirenne’s history of Europe through the lenses of the dichotomy Order/disorder. Marcello Verga considers the ideas of Europe of historians and geographers who actively took part in the shaping of the US towards Europe.