The aim of this panel is to investigate how European narratives and histories were construed in the second half of the twentieth century. Marcello Gisondi examines Federico Chabod’s classic History of the idea of Europe, underlining how his vision was deeply involved in the post-war attempt to get rid of brutal nationalisms. Florian Greiner will identify disparate interpretations of the Europeanness of the First World War, the interbellum, the Second World War and the immediate post Second World War period. Richard Deswarte will consider the perspective of British historians on Europe, arguing how some of them were providing a centuries-old forgotten conceptual narrative for the political ground-breaking process of European integration that was emerging around them. Marzia Maccaferri draws attention to the intellectual debate on Europe in Britain from the 1957 to the end of the Cold War. Andrea Brait, focusing on museums, will seek the starting basis for the “House of European History”. Massimo Asta, in his paper, tries to provide an analysis of the representations of the history of Europe in the public discourse of the French and the Italian Left between the foundation of the European Economic Community and the adoption of the European Single Act. Alessandra Bitumi discusses the ambiguous forms of European self-representation developed within the framework of the Atlantic Community in the 1970s, focusing on the creation of a narrative centered on the alleged identity of the EU as a “civilian/normative power”.