historians of modern European history

Cultural dementia The phrase is the title of a new book by a historian of modern Europe, Professor David Andress, who argues that France, the US and Britain are all engaged in “particular forms of forgetting, mistaking and misremembering the past”. This is more deadly than straightforward nostalgia, which ...

A GROUP of students from a school in Christchurch took part in a Question Time-style debate on WW1. BBC Newsnight's Mark Urban chaired the debate, which was hosted by Hayesfield School in Bath. Pupils from Highcliffe School joined over 100 young people from across the South West at the debate ...

As the High Library continues to feature the WWI and America Exhibition, it sponsored the lecture “Defining the Nation: Gender, Race and Belonging in World War I.” Assistant professor of history Dr. Chelsea Schields gave the lecture in the High Library Wednesday, Feb. 14. Archivist Rachel Grove ...

New York University curator and historian to speak at Marshall University on Scottsboro case ... He earned a master's degree in library and information science from the University of Texas at Austin and a Ph.D. in modern European history from New York University, where he is also an affiliated faculty ...

But the culture they fostered — hermetically sealed worlds of hypochondria and self-indulgence — were by then an indelible part of modern Europe. ... As the historian David Clay Large has written, “the grand spas in their heyday amounted to their world's equivalent of today's golf and tennis resorts, ...

Between May and August 1918, as World War I entered its final months, a 32-year-old historian named Charles Kingsley Webster, then on wartime leave ... For him, this was the first great diplomatic interaction between modern European powers and the single greatest precedent available to 20th century ...

Originally commissioned by France 5, The Real War of Thrones (4 x 60, pictured) is a 4K docu-drama series that charts the rival dynasties that forged the history of modern Europe. Each episode focuses on a period of 30 to 40 years, which corresponds to a critical moment in European history and a clash ...