Passato e Presente — Season 1, Episode 47: The Emigrants and Marcinelle

Episode synopsis

Episode dedicated to Italian emigration to Belgium: from the agreement of June 23, 1946 (with which Italy and Belgium agree on the transfer of 50,000 Italian miners in Belgium, in exchange for 2,500 tons of coal every 1,000 miners) to the disaster of Marcinelle (August 8, 1956) in which 262 people died.

About Passato e Presente

Program about historical dissemination, presented by Paolo Mieli. Each episode sees a historian interacting with the presenter and three young university students.

More episodes from Season 1

• E1The Defeat of the Dardanelles
• E2Nicolaj II, the Last Tsar
• E3The Trains of the Sun: Italy's Internal Migration in the 1950s
• E4Duce and America
• E5Charlemagne
• E6Caporetto: Before the Battle
• E7Battle Name: Lenin
• E8Italian Prisoners of the Allies
• E9Discord's Final: 1976 Davis Cup in Chile
• E10Caporetto: the Battle
• E11Tucci, Duce's Explorer
• E12Anne Frank, a Denied Memory