The London Moment: Workshop Summary
Last October, the London Moment Project held a workshop in Bayreuth at the Alexander von Humboldt Haus. Researchers from around Europe met together over two days to discuss different aspects of how the European...
Last October, the London Moment Project held a workshop in Bayreuth at the Alexander von Humboldt Haus. Researchers from around Europe met together over two days to discuss different aspects of how the European...
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...
As part of my doctorate on pan-African activism in London during World War II, I was fortunate enough to undertake an archival trip to West Africa in March 2020. In the following, I will...
The Cameroonian historian Achille Mbembe postulated that archives are “not a piece of data, but a status.”[1] He alluded to the fact that the recording of documents is a profoundly political act: decisions on...
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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.