Author: Julia Eichenberg
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...
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....
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...
JOB ALERT! Come and work with the London Moment team!
The Freigeist Research Group “The London Moment” offers a PhD position “Experts in exile” (m/f/d) (E 13 TV-L, 65%), limited to three years. The aim is to investigate the project “Experts in Exile”. The...
Metromod – Sourcing Traces.
Recording of interdisciplinary panel discussion available online. Metromod, a fellow research group investigating questions of exile, led by Prof. Burcu Dogramaci as an ERC project at the LMU Munich, currently organizes a panel series...
Keep Calm and Carry On. The most famous war time propaganda there never was.
For the last couple of months, we have been using the blue “Keep Calm and Wash Your Hands” poster (left) for our blog series on the links between war historiography and understanding how we...
New Year, New Phase, New Place
Luckily, there were still some good news in 2020 despite Covid-19: After successful international external evaluation in autumn 2020, the “London Moment” project has been granted a second phase as a Freigeist-Research Group funded...
Death and Mourning. Part V of: If we are at war with Corona, can history of war teach us anything?
Many countries have lifted lockdowns, while others continue to be badly affected. As of now, more than 650.000 people have died of the coronavirus (WHO 28.7.2020: 650.805 confirmed deaths, current numbers here). While for...
VE Day and more: Sound Archives remembering the War and its End
As frequently referred to, public speeches and radio broadcasts played a significant role during the Second World War, from de Gaulles’ speech rallying the Free French over Queen Wilhelmina’s addressing the occupied Netherlands to...
If we are at war with Corona, can history of war teach us anything? Part III: War Culture
There are various problems of comparing a health crisis to any war, and in particular to the Second World War. However, the comparisons are all around us: While German president, Frank-Walter Steinmeyer pointed to...
If we are at war with Corona, can history of war teach us anything? Part II: News and Media Consumption
Drawing comparisons between Corona and warfare seems omnipresent in the current crisis, as the United Nations, Macron, Merkel and even the British Queen have referred to the coronavirus pandemic as the biggest challenge since...
If we are at war with Corona, can historians of war teach us anything? Part 1: Comparisons and the Mystery of Toilet Paper
Last week, French president Macron declared we were “at war” with a virus. The rhetoric had been martial before – „fighting“ the virus, doctors „at the front“ against an invisible “enemy“ – but now,...
Contemporary History of Law – an AK GRR Round Table on Valentine’s Day
Our legal history research seminar, AK GRR, co-organized by Benjamin Lahusen, Marcus Payk, Kim C. Priemel, and myself, has been running since 2014. In November 2019, the journal Zeithistorische Forschungen/ Contemporary Studies of History...