Exile Governments, Academics, and Activists in the Capital of Free Europe, 1940–1945
Among British criminologists, Leon Radzinowicz is considered one of the founding fathers of the discipline. In 1959, he became the first Wolfson Professor of Criminology and founding Director of the newly established Institute of...
The ninth Junior Workshop of the German Association for British Studies (AGF) will take place May 05 and 06, 2021. The workshop provides an opportunity for M.A.-students, graduate students and Post-Docs working on the...
The “London Moment” was not just about London, it also had ripple effects on the much smaller university towns of Oxford and Cambridge. Both in close proximity to London and only a short train...
The London Moment is all about the people who met and interacted in London during the Second World War. They collaborated, argued and quarrelled, formed tightly knit national exile communities and cosmopolitan circles. Some...
The summer holidays of 2020 are approaching, and the only thing that can be said with certainty is that they will look and be quite different: social distancing instead of crowded beaches, mandatory mask-wearing...
Read about Sara’s take on the newest publication by James Loeffler and Moria Paz (eds.), The Law of Strangers, published in 2019, in H-Soz-Kult. Sara Weydner: Review of: Loeffler, James; Paz, Moria (Hrsg.): The...
The United Nations War Crimes Commission (UNWCC) is receiving more and more scholarly attention. Established in 1943 by the Allied states in London, it prepared for the trial of war crimes committed by Axis...
Until the outbreak of the Second World War in 1939, around 70,000 Jews escaped to Great Britain, seeking refuge from the escalating legal, social, cultural and economic repression put forward by the Nazis. Starting...
Writing transnational history comes with its own set of unique requirements. It is challenging to construct a coherent narrative out of the numerous factors involved. A biographical approach is one possibility to operationalize research...
The “London Moment” was characterised by deprivation and shortages. War economy took its toll on Brits and immigrants alike, influencing every aspect of daily life – food, transportation, mail, reading. At the same time, refugee...
On 14 June 2019, the Centre for Historical Research Berlin of the Polish Academy of Sciences (PAN) in Pankow, Berlin, welcomed a small group of interdisciplinary academics to discuss a topic that has not...
Photo credit: The Lotte Meitner-Graf Archive The onslaught on Jewish scholars in Germany as well as the increasingly difficult situation for other jurists in the occupied parts of Europe forced many among them to...
The Members of the Commission of the League of Nations, Paris, France, 1919. Photo credit: Wikimedia Commons. In the last decades, legal historians – in particular those of international law – have broadened their...
It can feel like London during the Second World War was an exclusively male territory. This is particularly true when dealing with jurists during that time. Perhaps unsurprisingly – given the restrictions for women...
There are research projects whose primary aim is to analyse a pre-defined body of sources, e.g. a set of newspapers in a certain period, or an intellectual’s complete papers. More often though, historians begin...
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"Capital of Europe" is a blog following the Freigeist research project "The London Moment. Transnational Collaboration of Governments-in-exile during the Second World War and its Impact on European History". The project, coordinated by Dr. Julia Eichenberg, the Principle Investigator, is based at Humboldt Universität zu Berlin and funded by the Volkswagen-Stiftung.
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