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BBC Live Debate on World War One
by Tiia Sahrakorpi Was the Great War a great mistake? 100 years on, historians and the public reflect on Britain’s involvement in World War One – a debate led by Niall Ferguson on BBC Two, Friday 28 February 2014. It then was moved to Radio 5 Live at 10.30 pm – 11.30 pm through which…
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The Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria has closed his account
By Marta Musso Have you ever wondered what world leaders would write in their Facebook accounts (in the pre-Obama era, of course)? Even though it’s two years old (a bygone era in the age of the internet) this post from CollegeHumor is more actual than ever. “Facebook News Feed History of the World: World War I…
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Cultural Memory and the Finnish Civil War
by Tiia Sahrakorpi “Why are Finnish people constantly discussing World War II?” The Second World War is brought up by many elderly Finns in interviews concerning Russia’s actions today in relation to Finland. World War II still forms an important part of Finnish cultural memory and self-identification. However, the Finnish Civil War of 1918 does not have…
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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…
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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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