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Forgotten in the Victory Celebrations: Thoughts on the 25th Anniversary of the Fall of the Wall
by Simon Coll While the rest of Europe continues its sombre reflections on the outbreak of the First World War, the Germans are taking time out for a more celebratory form of national remembrance…
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Narrating the First World War and experiencing the World Café
by Janine Noack Interested and inspired by the article about the Weber World Café Charlotte Jahnz published last month on our blog, I decided that I wanted to experience the WorldCafé myself. I visited on the day that the topic “Narrating the First World War – Experiences and Reports from Transregional Perspectives” was happening in…
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Responses to BBC Radio 4: “Germany: Memories of a Nation” Part 1
by Tiia Sahrakorpi and Janine Noack This morning, the first episode of the BBC radio 4 programme Germany: Memories of a Nation aired. Neil MacGregor, Director of the British Museum, presented…
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Remembrance, Re-launch and Richard III
By Emily Ward Doing History in Public (DHP) has been a fully-functioning, up-and-running collaborative blog project for the best part of a year. Those of us who have been involved with it since the start wear the ‘blogger’ badge with pride and have found blogging to be an excellent medium with which to pursue thoughts…
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World War I event at WeberWorldCafe: September 16
Our blogger at DHP, Janine Noack, is a science reporter for the WeberWorldCafe blog, which is hosting a World War I event today starting 2 P.M (CET) or 12 P.M. GMT, for those of us in the UK. The theme of the WeberWorldCafé is “Narrating the First World War – Experiences and Reports from Transregional…
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