The Liberation of the Camps: 8 May 1945, Theresienstadt
By May 1945 all of the concentration and extermination camps across Europe had been liberated. In this final piece…
European History
VE Day Anniversary: A WW2 Round-Up
Friday 8 May is the 70th anniversary of VE Day, the date that marked the end of the…
The Liberation of the Camps: 15 April 1945, Bergen-Belsen
The Bergen-Belsen camp is perhaps one of the best-known of the atrocities committed by the Nazis during the…
The Liberation of the Camps: 11 April 1945, Buchenwald
It has been 70 years since the Nazi-led concentration and extermination camps were liberated by the allies. The…
Fashion Victims: Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette
The court of Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette in 18th-century France was, and still is, one of the most…
When Harry Met Annie: Love and Financial Fraud in the Nineteenth Century (Part 3)
Harry Marks was one of the foremost financial journalists of the late nineteenth century. He was also a man…
When Harry Met Annie: Love and Financial Fraud in the Nineteenth Century (Part 2)
Harry Marks was one of the foremost financial journalists of the late nineteenth century. He was also a man…
When Harry Met Annie: Love and Financial Fraud in the Nineteenth Century (Part 1)
Harry Marks was one of the foremost financial journalists of the late nineteenth century. He was also a man…
Albert Speer: An Artist Under Hitler
‘When Speer’s father saw the model of Berlin, he responded to his son, “You’ve all gone completely insane”.’ Albert…
The Siege of Bastogne: Up Close and Personal
In the harsh winter of 1944-45, the month-long battle for Bastogne, a town with a peacetime population of…
Kristallnacht and the Nazi Imagination
How were the Nazis able to conceive of eradicating an entire people… of ‘A World Without Jews’? This…
Family Politics: Joseph Goebbels
Paul Ginsborg’s Family Politics tells the story of the 20th-century through the lens of the family, examining key…
Weimar and Bauhaus
The 15th of August was the first day of the seminal Bauhaus exhibition of 1923. Described by Michael…
Death of Venice? An alternative history
To coincide with the historical festa del redentore in Venice on July 19th-20th, we’ve prepared a blog that…