📢 New series of the @germanhistsoc.bsky.social 'Glimpses of German History' videos coming soon! Featuring (among other things) denazification forms, stained glass windows & a samovar - all with their curious stories to tell about the past. youtu.be/qFinubQvf60?...

Exactly what I thought when I first saw the cover design!

Delighted to see my forthcoming book - The Long Death of Adolf Hitler - is now available for preorder... yalebooks.co.uk/book/9780300... 👀

Just ahead of the 80th anniversary of the death of Adolf Hitler, I've been delighted to contribute to this feature for BBC Mundo: www.bbc.com/mundo/articl.... The vivid headline comes from a postwar testimony from a former bodyguard & also features in my forthcoming monograph...

Join us for IHR@Sheffield! Frank Trentmann (Birkbeck) speaks on "Complicity, Conscience and Compassion: History and Morality in Germany since the Second World War" The lecture will take place at the University of Sheffield on Wednesday, 30 April, at 4:15pm. Save the date, more details to follow

Really pleased to share news of this AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Partnership between @uni-roehampton.bsky.social & @nationalarchives.gov.uk.web.brid.gy on colonial POWs, British Democracy & Laws of War: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMM400/p...

If you read the Where do you bury a Nazi NYT article (or didn’t for reasons but this interests you), check out the great work @carolinesharples.bsky.social has done on this topic 🗃️ Bonus if you check out this book: a chapter on sport during the occupation….

Enormous thanks to @tlgrady68.bsky.social for a fascinating paper @ihrgermanhistory.bsky.social last night - and delighted to finally get my hands on a copy of his amazing new book. It's been an absolute privilege to watch this take shape over the past couple of years.

Had a very productive & enjoyable site visit to IWM Duxford today. Some exciting research-informed activities coming soon... 👀

PhD candidates! We still welcome applications for our PhD showcase until 13 Dec. Come and present your project to the wider German history crowd at a seminar on 29 Jan 2025 More details here: www.history.ac.uk/seminars/mod...

Privileged to mark Holocaust Memorial Day on campus today with a talk for colleagues & students from Anne Wolfe-Skinner who came to the UK in 1939 on the Kindertransport.

Very much looking forward to the next IHR Modern German History seminar (15 Nov, 5:30 GMT). Dr Jane Freeland will be talking about "Gender Regimes and Divided German History: Rethinking Asymmetry and Entanglement" It's an in-person seminar, but there is an option to join online. Sign up here:

Very pleased to welcome Jeff Bowersox to speak @ Roehampton University today as part of our Enhancement Week & Black History Month. Jeff gave a fabulous paper on 'Listening through the silences of the archive' - a case study of music hall star Josephine Morcashani.

Lovely to be back at the University of Sussex today as an Isaacsohn & André Families' Research Fellow on the Sussex Digital Holocaust Education Project. Looking forward to exploring Mass Observation archive materials!

Better plug something quickly while I'm here. New series of the IHR Modern German History Seminar launches next Wednesday with a paper from yours truly: www.history.ac.uk/seminars/mod... Join us in person or online!

Finally checking out this space. Thanks @historyandrew.bsky.social for the invite!