Second World War | History Matters

Has mental illness always been stigmatised in Modern Britain? Newspapers and The Munich Crisis

by Lee Norton on November 30, 2017

Recently, the mental health charity Heads Together celebrated its first year of campaigning. Launched in May 2016 by the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, alongside Prince Harry, its main initiative was to ‘tackle stigma and

Haw-Haw and Radio War: Fake News in the 1940s

by Liam Liburd on February 21, 2017

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Fake news is a feature of the ‘post-truth’ world, which we are supposed to have entered some time last year

What history can’t tell us about the future: Non-predictions for a Trumpy world

by Martin Brown on January 20, 2017

Europe faces a clear and present danger. NATO and the Russian Federation are facing off in the eastern Baltic. Rival

From horse-riding to Holocaust: Hermann Fegelein and the Waffen-SS

by Henning Pieper on November 20, 2014

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In the early 1930s, Hermann Fegelein, one of Germany's most successful jockeys, met Heinrich Himmler. In 1937, he was appointed

The Tube and the Blitz: A Historical Legacy

by Kathryn Robinson on October 3, 2014

Earlier this year, the London Transport Museum announced that the disused Aldwych Underground Station would be open to the public

How Should You Bury A Nazi?

by Caroline Sharples on November 13, 2013

What do you do with a dead Nazi? This question is at the very heart of my work on funerary practices in postwar Germany. Clearly, I have macabre research interests, and the notion of writing

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