I’m Glad that Zoom Conferences are the Future. Here’s Why.
It’s been a lonely year for many of us. For me, the first UK Lockdown coincided with the beginning of a year of research leave which should have enabled me to travel, visit archives, and above all, network. In the end, I spent most of the year in one room (where I am now), and…
A German Communist memoir at the height of British appeasement
[Note – This post was first published by the Blog of the Working Class Movement Library, WCML, and can be found here.] On 20 February 1938, Anthony Eden resigned from his post as Foreign Secretary to protest against the policy of appeasement pursued by PM Neville Chamberlain. Like many others in Britain, Chamberlain was still…
‘Lefty lawyers’ and ‘law and order’: Who is the law for?
Priti Patel and Boris Johnson’s scorn for ‘lefty lawyers’ is a threat to British democracy. This week both the British Home Secretary, Priti Patel, and the Prime Minister Boris Jonson called into question the integrity of lawyers on the political Left. Patel made her comments last Sunday, in the context of the discussion on immigration.…
On Knowing the Nazis
I realised recently that my current project of researching life in Nazi Germany, the idea of ‘knowing the Nazis’, is something I have specifically avoided in my study of German literature and culture up to this point. In my first year at university I had to read the poem ‘Todesfuge’ (Death Fugue) by the Romanian-born…
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When I have an idea I need to share, I blog about it. Mostly these are reflections from my research, and on academia in general. I hope that there is something here for you.
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