The London Moment Blog
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Join us for our Digital Map Launch!
Thursday, 17th October, 10a.m.-1p.m. Thursday 17 October 2024, 10 a.m.-1 p.m. CET Digital History of Wartime London Chair and Discussion: Cassandra Mark-Thiesen / Mirco Schönfeld Julia Eichenberg &Lea Levenhagen: Visualising Cooperation in Exile. Launch...
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Visualising Cooperation in Exile II
Venues of cooperation in exile of governments-in-exile, experts, and activists explained in a StoryMaps built on our ArcGIS Map – Zoom in to find our more! For a better resolution, you might want to...
Visualising Cooperation in Exile II
Venues of cooperation in exile of governments-in-exile, experts, and activists explained in a StoryMaps built on our ArcGIS Map – Zoom in to find our more! For a better resolution, you might want to...
Visualising Cooperation in Exile I
Governments-in-exile, experts, and activists on an ArcGIS Map – Zoom in to find our more The microcosm of Allied London was filled with exiles: academic communities, legal, economic and financial experts, and anti-colonial activists....
Join us for our Digital Map Launch!
Thursday, 17th October, 10a.m.-1p.m. Thursday 17 October 2024, 10 a.m.-1 p.m. CET Digital History of Wartime London Chair and Discussion: Cassandra Mark-Thiesen / Mirco Schönfeld Julia Eichenberg &Lea Levenhagen: Visualising Cooperation in Exile. Launch...
How London Exile Shaped Development Economics…
As I delved into my doctoral project, I found myself frequently reflecting on the influence of London and its exilic infrastructure on shaping my research pursuits. While my conclusions continue to evolve, I have...
Call for Papers: 11th Early Career Workshop of the German Association for British Studies (AGF)
11th Early Career Workshop of the German Association for British Studies (AGF) Location: Institute of History, University of Bonn Organizer: German Association for British Studies (AGF) Date: November 29, 2024 Application Deadline: August 31,...
The Emergency Rescue Committee – Review of “Transatlantic”
We are back with another review of a series related to our research project. Like The London Moment, the series is about a very specific group of refugees – not heads of state, politicians,...
Unraveling the London Moment: Navigating Financial and Economic Experts in Exile through Digital Network Visualization
Examining financial and economic experts during the London Moment, as I intend to do in my dissertation project , is a challenging endeavor. During the time in exile, numerous working groups, committees, and panels...
New post for the German Historical Institute London Blog “A Short Walk through London’s History during the Second World War: Financial Experts in Exile”
In March 2023, I had the fantastic opportunity to spend a month conducting archival research in London with a scholarship from the German Historical Institute. As a follow-up to this research stay, I wrote...
The van Kleffens in London and Diplomatic Couples – Book review
“For all the people behind the scenes” is the dedication of Susanna Erlandsson’s book and sets the tone for her study in diplomatic history. The book follows the international careers of a Dutch diplomatic...
The Political Importance of Printing Banknotes in Exile
Printing several tonnes of paper money in British exile, storing it there temporarily and shipping it back home after the end of the war – this may seem very bizarre at first. On closer...
The European League for Economic Cooperation and its founding fathers
With “mon cher ami” Paul van Zeeland, Belgian foreign politician, began a letter to the Polish political advisor Józef Retinger in 1946, in which he proposed an initial meeting to establish an association for...
Call for Papers: 10th Junior Workshop of the German Association for British Studies (AGF)
Date: 17-18 May 2023 Venue: Centre for British Studies, Mohrenstraße 60, 10117 Berlin Convenor: German Association for British Studies (AGF) CfP-Deadline: 17 March 2023 In times of fundamental geopolitical reorientation of the United Kingdom,...
“We do not make a noise but we get things done”: The League of Coloured People’s campaign against racial discrimination in the British armed forces 1939
The outbreak of the Second World War posed a problem to the British government regarding their colonial population. On one hand, Britain needed the support from its colonies for the war effort, in the...
Mapping the London Moment
by Finlay McCracken One of our goals of the London Moment project is to observe the interactions between various governments groups (governments-in-exile, academics, activists, and others) cooperating in London during the Second World War. ...
