IHR Summer Reading Series

IHR Summer Reading Series

Volume 4 During the month of August we will be sharing summer reading lists, experiences, and suggestions from the IHR community. If you’d like to share your own, please Tweet (X) us @ihr_history. Daniel Snowman has been a Senior Research Fellow at the IHR since...
Should we concrete over ‘dark tourist’ monuments?

Should we concrete over ‘dark tourist’ monuments?

By Daniel Snowman, Senior Fellow, IHR This is the final in a series of three blog pieces by IHR Senior Fellow, Daniel Snowman, raising provocative issues about how we regard and memorialise what we think of as ‘history’. Read the first and second blogs...
Queer History and the Holocaust

Queer History and the Holocaust

By Anna Hájková Queer victims rarely feature in the historiography of the Holocaust. One of the reasons for this neglect is that they complicate the dominant categories of analysis: we usually regard persecuted homosexuals as gentiles and Jewish victims as...

Racism – A Global History

Global History seminarFrancisco Bethancourt (King’s College London)10 March 2010Racism – A Global HistoryThis is a guest post by Bianca Harrisskitt, one of IHR Digital’s interns from the University of Leicester.     In March 2010, Professor Francisco...

Children’s literature and war – two authors’ views

In a radio interview, the authors Tomi Ungerer and Judith Kerr discuss their books about the Second World War and the Holocaust and how the events influenced their writings. Ungerer briefly outlines his time during the German occupation and discusses his book Otto:...