On Friday 19 June 2026, the Holocaust Research Institute (HRI) at Royal Holloway, University of London, hosted Intersecting Methodologies: Micro and Macro Approaches in Holocaust and Nazi Persecution Studies at Bedford Square, University of London. The one-day workshop was organised by PhD candidates Lewis Champion and Bill Edmonds, and was made possible by the support of the German History Society alongside funding from the HRI.

The workshop explored a central methodological question: how micro historical approaches, focused on individuals and small groups, and macro historical approaches, focused on large scale patterns, can complement one another. Across three panels, ten postgraduate and early career researchers presented work on marginalised groups and mediated sources, on the movement from individual records to collective patterns, and on postwar reckoning, memory, and restitution, before a closing discussion drew these threads together.

Support from the GHS was central to the workshop’s international character, allowing us to offer participants a contribution towards travel and accommodation. We welcomed speakers from across Europe and beyond, including institutions in the UK, Germany, Poland, France, Hungary, Ireland, and the United States. The event also gave early career scholars a supportive forum to test their methods and build international networks.

We are very grateful to the German History Society for its support, and we hope to build on the connections made.

Lewis Champion is a part-time PhD researcher at Royal Holloway, University of London.