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The video content titled “Explained by an Expert” consists of a series of five videos that feature university professors and experts from various research and educational institutions explaining the terms, events and processes that marked and shaped the history of the 19th century.

• Marko Stabej, PhD, professor at the Department of Slovene Studies, Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana, presents the role of the Slovenian language during the national awakening period.
   
• Assistant Professor Irena Selišnik, PhD, professor at the Department of History, Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana, explains the significance of the March Revolution, which swept the Austrian Empire and the Slovenian lands, among other areas, in 1848.
   
• Professor Aleksej Kalc, PhD, researcher at the Slovenian Migration Institute (Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts) outlines the causes and consequences of emigration from the Slovenian lands to the USA and other European countries in the second half of the 19th century.
   
• Neja Blaj Hribar, researcher at the Institute of Contemporary History, describes the consequences of the earthquake that hit Ljubljana and the surrounding area at Easter in 1895, and presents the post-earthquake reconstruction of Ljubljana.
   
• Katarina Keber, PhD, researcher at the Milko Kos Historical Institute (Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts) explains the spread of infectious-disease epidemics, focusing on a cholera outbreak in the historical region of Carniola in the mid-19th century.