The present publication provides a comprehensive database of textbooks and related materials intended for or used in practice in classes in primary schools and lower grades of secondary schools between the years 1774 and 1918. It was created as part of the work on the project "Schools and Imperial, National, and Transnational Identifications: Habsburg Empire, Yugoslavia, and Slovenia” (J6-2573),² which was co-financed by the Slovene Research and Innovation Agency. Neja Blaj Hribar and Jan Bernot, members of the support team, dealt with the collection, classification, and digitization of the material. Members of the project team, including principal investigator Rok Stergar and researchers Karin Almasy, Jernej Kosi, Jovana Mihajlović Trbovc, Tamara Pavasović Trošt, Marko Zajc, and Vita Zalar, also helped us in the design of the database. Oliver Pejić also helped us with many useful tips and comments. We would like to express our sincere gratitude to Karin Almasy for her generous support and the advice and material collected during her research work. We also wish to thank Matej Hriberšek, who kindly shared with us his lists of textbook materials for classical language classes, and Teodor Domej, who also assisted us with his advice.

A digital publication in this form would not have been possible without the collaborators of the infrastructure program at the Institute of Contemporary History. We would like to give particular mention to Mihael Ojsteršek who put everything into its digital form, the students Tamara Logar and Daša Mikuž, and Marko Kupljen and Ana Cvek for digitizing the textbooks and publishing them on the Sistory.si portal.

Further thanks are due to the Slovene School Museum and all the employees of their library, who made it possible for us to borrow and digitize their textbooks.