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...
The London Moment demonstrates how networks were central to the political thinking and practice of European exiles during the Second World War. London became a convergence point for a diverse array of actors –...
The London Moment revealed significant disparities among the exile governments in terms of their access to national and colonial resources, which in turn shaped their positioning and influence in exile. Some governments-in-exile were able...
One of the London Moment’s most significant publications has been Dr. Sara Weydner’s PhD thesis, Law in Exile: European Pioneers of International Criminal Law in the Second World War. Dr. Weydner is interested in...
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...
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...
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....
As I delved into my doctoral project, I found myself frequently reflecting on the influence of London and its exilic infrastructure on shaping my research pursuits. While my conclusions continue to evolve, I have...
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,...
In March 2023, I had the fantastic opportunity to spend a month conducting archival research in London with a scholarship from the German Historical Institute. As a follow-up to this research stay, I wrote...
With “mon cher ami” Paul van Zeeland, Belgian foreign politician, began a letter to the Polish political advisor Józef Retinger in 1946, in which he proposed an initial meeting to establish an association for...
The outbreak of the Second World War posed a problem to the British government regarding their colonial population. On one hand, Britain needed the support from its colonies for the war effort, in the...
by Finlay McCracken One of our goals of the London Moment project is to observe the interactions between various governments groups (governments-in-exile, academics, activists, and others) cooperating in London during the Second World War. ...
During the “London Moment”, the central banks of the occupied countries were essential[1]: on one hand, they helped the national governments-in-exile to achieve financial security, on the other, they facilitated the exchange of knowledge...
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...
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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.