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Professor Sir Richard J. Evans on History and the Public
by Janine Noack and Tiia Sahrakorpi On January 28th, 2014 Sir Richard J. Evans gave a Q&A session to Cambridge University MPhil and Ph.D students on what it has been like to work and research as a prominent historian in the digital age and earlier. Students sent in various questions about his career and how history has…
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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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Responses to BBC Radio 4 Germany: Memories of a Nation “Divided Heaven” Part 2
by Tiia Sahrakorpi and Janine Noack This morning the second episode of the BBC Radio 4 programme, Germany: Memories of a Nation aired. Janine Noack (JN) and Tiia Sahrakorpi (TS) provided…
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PhD Challenges: The Tangled Web of Historiography
By Eleanor Russell Any historian endeavouring to research an area of history must investigate its historiography (the scholarship of previous historians); not only using their evidence and arguments but analysing, revising, and, where appropriate, challenging them. For historians, this process can be fraught with tension and doubt: which texts do I need to read? Who…
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Questioning Modern Slavery Legislation through the Trade of SS Allach Porcelain
By Tristan Bromley @TefaBrom Porcelain is not something usually associated with Nazism. Yet from 1936–45, the Nazi SS, were fostering this precise link through the Allach Porcelain Manufactory, an SS company.[I] Amongst its produce were animal figurines, vases, candleholders, as well as models of SS men and other ‘Aryan’ figurines. Each piece bore the company’s mark…
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