Researchers: Lea Levenhagen
I am a PhD student at the Institute for Franconian Regional History at the Universities of Bamberg and Bayreuth and a member of the research project “The London Moment”. After completing my Bachelor’s degree...
I am a PhD student at the Institute for Franconian Regional History at the Universities of Bamberg and Bayreuth and a member of the research project “The London Moment”. After completing my Bachelor’s degree...
On the occasion of the 9th Junior Workshop of the German Association for British Studies, 12 graduate students and Post-Docs working on the history of the United Kingdom, the Commonwealth or the British Empire...
Through migration from colonial territories to Britain, London was a hub for migrant flows from all over the globe from the Victorian era onwards. As such, the city became a “junction box”[1] for Black...
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...
Date: 14-15 May, 2020 Venue: Centre for British Studies, Mohrenstraße 60, 10117 Berlin Convenor: German Association for British Studies (AGF) CfP-Deadline: March 6 2020 In times of a fundamental geopolitical reorientation of the United...
Review of Waters, Rob: Thinking Black: Britain, 1964-1985. Oakland: University of California Press 2019. The review (in German) is available on HSozKult: https://www.hsozkult.de/publicationreview/id/reb-28444
I have always had a thing for small archives. Big national archives have many advantages, they host a vast range of collections, they have mostly long opening hours and very quick turnaround. They seem...
On Whitehall in Westminster, London’s government district, the cenotaph commemorates the British soldiers killed in the First World War. Until today, it is at the centre of Remembrance Day service, taking place on the...
Since I first went online to research the history of the German Social Democratic Party (SPD) a few years ago, the party has given its website a thorough makeover. Much cleaner and containing a...
Christmas in London still exemplifies the experience of European governments-in-exile in London: Since 1947, every year, the large Christmas tree on Trafalgar Square is presented to the people of London by the city of...
The blog’s subject, Europeans in wartime London, has been covered by a couple of feature films. There is the classic: Ernst Lubitsch’s „To be or not to be“ from 1947 about a Polish theatre...
Tobias Becker (GHIL London) on our co-organized workshop (together with Daniel Steinbach, Exter) “Competitors and Companions: Britons and Germans in the World” http://www.hsozkult.de/conferencereport/id/tagungsberichte-7325?language=en
In the all-time ranking of historic speeches, London wartime speeches feature prominently, and Charles de Gaulle’s first calls for resistance are certainly high up on the list. His address to the French nation right after his...
After the November 2015 Paris attacks, the London Eye was illuminated in blue, white and red, the colours of the French flag, as a memorial to the attacks. The British People – as the...
Next week, the Centre for British Studies at Humboldt Universität zu Berlin will host the ADEF Workshop “Competitors & Companions: Britons and Germans in the World”, organized by Daniel Steinbach (Exeter), Tobias Becker (GHI...
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