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Over the course of the last fifteen years, the journal Vingtième Siècle has undergone several major transformations. The first affected the composition of its reading committee, which is now considerably larger and more diverse. In 2014, the reading committee is now composed of representatives from many different fields of research, instead of being focused on political history as it had been when the journal was launched in 1984. The second transformation concerns the impact of globalisation on the choice of articles published by the journal. Vingtième Siècle now publishes a greater number of articles devoted to non-French topics, especially in the field of transnational history. Finally, the most striking change was the shift to digitalisation and its implications for the mode of reading and a broader readership.