Category: Archive

  • The WorldCafé – a way to discuss history

    The WorldCafé – a way to discuss history

    by Charlotte Jahnz Charlotte Jahnz (@CJahnz) is a Masters student in history at Bonn University and Community Manager at the Max Weber Stiftung. One way to discuss history in public is through a WorldCafé, which aims to bring together experts and participants. Gesche Schifferdecker (@GSchifferdecke), press officer at Max Weber Stiftung, is currently organizing the…

  • Beach reading for historians (or why simple writing makes your argument smarter)

    Beach reading for historians (or why simple writing makes your argument smarter)

    by Marta Musso Summer reading is always tricky for young academics. On the one hand, the summer holidays are the perfect and unique time of the year to relax and read all the pleasant, light novels that you never have time for. On the other hand, summer is also the time to catch up with…

  • Shadows of the First World War: Surveillance, Censorship, and the Right to Privacy

    Shadows of the First World War: Surveillance, Censorship, and the Right to Privacy

    by Catherine Katz Catherine Katz is an MPhil in Modern European History student at the University of Cambridge. In a recent Wall Street Journal article, historian…

  • Issues of Studying Nineteenth Century Women in Foreign Affairs

    Issues of Studying Nineteenth Century Women in Foreign Affairs

    by Tiia Sahrakorpi A under-researched field is women in diplomatic history. Furthering this field would enhance the study of diplomatic history itself as mostly men are in the forefront as leaders of diplomatic missions. This leads to questions such as, “how to treat gender as a concept in foreign affairs and how to write about…

  • British Identity in Fascist Italy

    British Identity in Fascist Italy

    by Konstantin Wertelecki Konstantin Wertelecki is an MPhil student in Modern European History at the University of Cambridge. In June 1940, British citizens Mr. and Mrs. Waterfield drove to the Florence railway station, just in time to catch the last train to France before Italy declared war on Britain. Bizarrely, this was their second escape…