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Join us for our Digital Map Launch!

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...

Visualising Cooperation in Exile I

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....

Mapping the London Moment

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. ...

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...

Film Review: Darkest Hour (2017)

Opening Scene: A heated debate is raging in the British Parliament: Clement Attlee, head of the opposition Labour Party, explains to British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain what he thinks of his appeasement policy and explains his condition for a coalition government: His condition is called Winston Churchill. (Not Lord Halifax, as favoured by the Conservatives.) Thus, Churchill is present in the film before he even appears for the first time.