Dirty Coal – The Real Priority for the Paris Conference
The United Nations Conference on Climate Change – an annual meeting of all countries that want to take…
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Meet Ivan Maisky: The Ribbentrop-Molotov Pact
In part two of our blog series celebrating publication of The Maisky Diaries, Gabriel Gorodetsky shares an excerpt…
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…
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…
Monty’s Men: The British Army and the Liberation of Europe
In Monty’s Men: The British Army and the Liberation of Europe, John Buckley offers a radical reappraisal of Great…
Summer Art Selection
Is there a finer season than summer? The sun is presumably shining, work is in relatively short supply…
The First Modern Woman Artist: Paula Modersohn-Becker
Paula Modersohn-Becker (1876-1907) was a groundbreaking painter whose often-overlooked place in modernism forces us to reconsider our understanding…
Common Ground: German Photographic Cultures Across the Iron Curtain
Common Ground: German Photographic Cultures Across the Iron Curtain is the first book to thoroughly evaluate the photography that…
Bismarck: The Iron Chancellor
Yale University Press’ Little Histories collection is a family of books that takes a closer look at some…
‘Eva Hesse,1965’, Off The Wall
Eva Hesse (1936 – 1970) was a Jewish German-born American sculptor and artist, who habitually challenged conventions. She is…
Bernd Brunner’s ‘Bears’ emerges from the wild
Bernd Brunner introduces an exclusive video trailer for his book Bears: A Brief History.