Exile Governments, Academics, and Activists in the Capital of Free Europe, 1940–1945
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,...
“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 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...
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...
A jealous colleague once remarked that contemporary historians are like journalists, only with a slightly more generous deadline. If that is the case, then my research project has put me in a position which...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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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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