Twitter RSS
Close

Month: September 2018

Conference: Solidarias: Voluntary involvement and actions of the foreign women in the Spanish Civil War

jeanetteatkinsonLeave a comment

Paris, 24-26 october 2018 Conference website: http://solidarias2018.com/index.php/en/accueil-solidarias-2018-en/ The Spanish Civil War is one of the most studied events in 20th century European historiography. However, some phenomena related to the conflict are still unknown or underestimated. The ways in which Spanish women participated in the conflict on both sides have been examined in the works of…

The Usage of Ego-documents in Jewish Historical research – an International researchers’ workshop

jeanetteatkinsonLeave a comment

The workshop will deal in the usage of Ego documents by historians. By ego-documents we refer to letters, diaries, life stories written by individuals. The workshop will concentrate of Jewish History in the last three centuries, especially the 20th century. Since early modern hysterography, Ego-documents were considered sources unsuited for historical research. However, in the…

New book: A New Nationalist Europe Under Hitler

jeanetteatkinsonLeave a comment

A New Nationalist Europe Under Hitler Concepts of Europe and Transnational Networks in the National Socialist Sphere of Influence, 1933–1945 Edited by Johannes Dafinger, Dieter Pohl Routledge Nazis, fascists and völkisch conservatives in different European countries not only cooperated internationally in the fields of culture, science, economy, and persecution of Jews, but also developed ideas…