WW2 historian @qmhistory Author of 'The SS Officer's Armchair', out now with @HachetteUS & @JonathanCape
London, England
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My new book is out on Tuesday @HachetteUS It's the story of a low-ranking Nazi (with an American father) whose swastika-covered papers were discovered inside the cushion of an armchair. The brilliant staff @Loyaltybooks in DC can arrange non-US shipping hachettebooks.com/titles/dan…
Rommel, who was charged with defending France against Allied invasion, missed #DDay because he was surprising his wife on her 50th birthday in Germany with a pair of handmade grey suede shoes. He got her the wrong size.
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We would love to know more about the people in Wolverhampton who made it possible for some German & Austrian Jews to move to the city in 1938-39. The discovery of this diary by an 18 year old Austrian Jew in May 1939, sheds new light on GB & the refugee crisis.
Diary sparks mystery of man helping Jews flee war bbc.in/3H1fbHf
What an ending sentence to a most powerful review. Excellent work @annesebba
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And as a counterbalance to yesterday's Butler nonsense, cleanse your LRB palette with this book review by the brilliant @daniellee550
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I so enjoyed writing this piece about D-Day for the London Review of Books lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v47/n06/…
To commemorate the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, my @BBCRadio3 programme examined the creation of Sweden’s first Holocaust Museum. Interviews with Livia Fränkel, survivor of Auschwitz & Bergen-Belsen & former Swedish PM Stefan Löfven bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0027ds…
Of possible interest to @Dannythefink @wienerlibrary @HMD_UK @TheAJR_ @UKHMF @holocaustnorth @GermanAmbUK
This is not a photo of Jews interned in the Vel d’Hiv in July 1942. Not a single photograph exists from inside the arena. Rather, this image shows a group of collaborators interned inside the Vel d’Hiv after the Liberation of Paris.
Your account of the rafle is otherwise excellent. Using this photo is an easy mistake as many others have done the same 20minutes.fr/politique/25691…
This was such an excellent event. So many parallels exist when considering the fate of Jews in Vichy France & Slovakia during WW2. Can all @QMHistory students please buy @Freedland’s new book. It is historical writing at its finest.
Thank you @SLOVAKIAinUK for commemorating the 80th anniversary of the Vrba-Wetzler escape with His Excellency Dr Róbert Ondrejcsák, @Freedland, AJR CEO Michael Newman, @JuliaSherwood, Hannah Janulewicz, Dr @bea_lewkowicz & Dr Martin Korčok, Director, Holocaust Museum, Sereď.
The equivalent of Liechtenstein winning Euro 2024, in the view of one expert pundit
Congratulations to the @QMUL men's football team, winners of the London University Football League for the first time ever!
It's not just Bayer Leverkusen making football history this year.
Sarala Krishnamurthy's path-breaking oral history work in Namibia has uncovered voices & stories related to the Herero & Nama Genocide that have been suppressed for more than 100 years. Sarala will present her research in person in London, Weds 27 March @QMUL Please register here
IHSS Visiting Fellow, Professor Sarala Krishnamurthy sheds new light on suppressed voices and un-recorded history @QMHistory
Herero and Nama Genocide Survivor Narratives eventbrite.co.uk/e/prof-sara…
This event in London on the Herero & Nama Genocide might be of interest to @HMD_UK @ghilondon @CharlesMooreUK @TheAfricaCentre @AfricaProg @EwelinaUO @DavidAltonHL @GenocideAPPG @UCL_SPRC @hakimadi1 @BBC_AudreyB @HenningMelber
Those who enjoyed @TobiasBuckFT recent piece in the @FT (below) might also be interested in this event next Wednesday in London on the Herero & Nama Genocide
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Fantastic work that drew on the excellent scholarship of @hannaediamond @FabriceVirgili @matthewcobb @sandrinesanos, @c_e_clark & others. Well done, Eli!
Congratulations to @QMHistory alumna Eli Jeannin
Their dissertation 'Crowning the Citizen: Reshaping Gender Dynamics through Photographs of Women During the liberation of Paris' supervised by @daniellee550 is the winning entry in @asmcf D. Johnson Memorial Essay Prize Competition
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10pm tonight on @BBCRadio3 @annemcelvoy discusses the challenges of the archives and writing history with @PistolRachel @EHRIproject @daniellee550 @QMUL_HSS Barbara Warnock @wienerlibrary @WeberLiza @Centre_GJS
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Henri Steiner has died aged 101. He was arrested by French police in August 1942 in France’s so-called “Free Zone” & deported to Auschwitz. It was a privilege to interview him. He taught me the importance of learning local patois / dialect in rural France ladepeche.fr/2024/01/02/carn…
This podcast is at once sensitive & extraordinary. Utterly compelling listening. Can all @QMHistory students please listen. Journalism at its finest by @jennykleeman. Family history / genealogical studies = highly important tool for historical research
💥📻I can finally share The Gift with you. My new series for @BBCSounds and @BBCRadio4 launches on Monday 11th September. Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts. And check out the trail: bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0gbkn…
