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 of few scruples, and his salacious…
European History
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 of few scruples, and his salacious…
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 Speer left an indelible imprint on German architecture…
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 4,000 and seven roads, claimed 23,000…
Kristallnacht and the Nazi Imagination
How were the Nazis able to conceive of eradicating an entire people… of ‘A World Without Jews’? This week marks 76 years since Kristallnacht,…
Family Politics: Joseph Goebbels
Paul Ginsborg’s Family Politics tells the story of the 20th-century through the lens of the family, examining key moments of revolution and dictatorship in…
Weimar and Bauhaus
The 15th of August was the first day of the seminal Bauhaus exhibition of 1923. Described by Michael Kater as ‘the most important cultural…
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 looks at a different take on…