Attending the Conference ‘Crafting Fashion in the Longue Durée’
The conference, ‘Crafting Fashion in the Longue Durée / Les savoir-faire de la mode: matérialité et temporalité dans la longue durée’ took place from 28-30 November 2024 at the Université Sorbonne-Nouvelle in Paris. The conference was part of a research project by Ariane Fennetaux (Université Sorbonne Nouvelle) and Emilie Hammen...
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin Language Course, Researching Hirschfeld, and the GHS Scholarship
I am incredibly grateful for the support of the GHS Postgraduate Scholarship and the GHS Small Grant, which funded my language study, fieldwork, and conference attendance in Berlin and Potsdam over this summer. The experiences enabled by the support of the GHS have set me up with stronger language skills,...
The Internationale Sommerkurse at the Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf
The German History Society and the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) language course grant allowed me to attend the Internationale Sommerkurse at the Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf. The course offered a great opportunity to revise and refresh my German language proficiency before beginning archival research and oral history interviews for my PhD...
‘A Place of Refuge’ Exhibition
Refugees have help shape the University of Southampton and make it the world-leading institution it is today. Like much of refugee history, however, that contribution remains largely invisible. As Southampton is soon to gain status as a ‘university of sanctuary’, making itself accessible to those fleeing persecution, it was a...
Research Trip to Strasbourg: GHS Funding Report
Harry O'Neill
By the autumn of 2023, I had been researching the latter-day prophet, Ursula Jost, for around two and a half years. Having just returned to London from Birmingham after presenting my first paper at that year’s German History Society conference, I was feeling rather pleased with myself about how it...
Report on ‘Animals and the Holocaust’ Workshop
On 11-12th July 2024, Barnabas Balint (University of Oxford) and Charlotte Gibbs (University of Southern California) convened the ‘Animals and the Holocaust’ interdisciplinary workshop at Magdalen College. It brought together ten scholars from eight institutions across four countries for two days of collaborative discussions and presentations about the relationship between...