Episodes

Friday Jul 10, 2020
Contested Pasts and Radical Futures - Anne Heffernan and Jake Richards
Friday Jul 10, 2020
Friday Jul 10, 2020
Contested Pasts and Radical Futures: Statues and the Politics of Commemoration in the BLM Era features Anne Heffernan and Jake Richards in conversation with Alan Fentiman. For more on Jake's research see Anti-Slave-Trade Law, ‘Liberated Africans’ and the State in the South Atlantic World, c.1839–1852 and for Anne Student/teachers from Turfloop: the propagation of Black Consciousness in South African schools, 1972–76.

Thursday Jun 18, 2020
Iron Curtain Twitchers: A Romanian German Family during the Cold War - James Koranyi
Thursday Jun 18, 2020
Thursday Jun 18, 2020
Iron Curtain Twitchers features James Koranyi, Durham University, talking with Alan Fentiman, on touching biographies of a family separated by the Cold War, torn between West Germany and Romania. The podcast draws on research that James has recently published in Romanian, ‘Priviri secrete peste Cortina de Fier: O familie de germani din România în perioada Războiului Rece’ (‘Iron Curtain Twitchers: A Romanian German Family during the Cold War’) in Mathias Beer, Sorin Radu and Florian Kührer-Wielach, Germanii din România. Migrație și patrimoniu cultural după 1945 (Germans in Romania: Migration and Cultural Heritage since 1945) (Bucharest: Editura Academiei Româna, 2020), pp. 73-94.

Thursday Jun 11, 2020
Two Centuries of Misunderstanding Wuhan: Part 2 - Chris Courtney
Thursday Jun 11, 2020
Thursday Jun 11, 2020
Two Centuries of Misunderstanding Wuhan: Part 2 features Chris Courtney and Alan Fentiman on the longer connections between Britain and Wuhan, and the deeper roots of cultural mis-representation that characterised these connections.

Monday Jun 08, 2020
Two Centuries of Misunderstanding Wuhan: Part 1 - Chris Courtney
Monday Jun 08, 2020
Monday Jun 08, 2020
Two Centuries of Misunderstanding Wuhan, Part 1, features Chris Courtney, Durham University, speaking on cultural misunderstandings relating to the city of Wuhan, prominent in the media within the current pandemic. Part 1 explores mis-representation of food culture and the nature of Covid-19.

Saturday May 30, 2020
Resilience or reticence? Holocaust memory in the United Kingdom - Daniel Adamson
Saturday May 30, 2020
Saturday May 30, 2020
Resilience or reticence? features Daniel Adamson, Durham University, on responses to the Holocaust in Britain, during and after World War Two.
More information: https://www.wienerlibrary.co.uk/digital-holocaust-resources

Tuesday May 19, 2020
World War Two Newsreels - Grace Stephenson
Tuesday May 19, 2020
Tuesday May 19, 2020
Featuring Grace Stephenson, an AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Award-holder with Tyneside Cinema talking with Alan Fentiman about how news in the war was framed and cast.
More information at: http://bufvc.ac.uk/newsonscreen/search/

Thursday May 14, 2020
Love and Collecting in a Time of War - Ludmilla Jordanova
Thursday May 14, 2020
Thursday May 14, 2020
Love and Collecting in a Time of War features Ludmilla Jordanova, Durham University, talking about the creation of extra-illustrated book during the First World of War; a labour of love and reflection on the importance of immersive activities during a time of crisis.
For more information https://history.rcplondon.ac.uk/inspiring-physicians

Monday May 04, 2020
Chronicling Crisis - Tom Hamilton
Monday May 04, 2020
Monday May 04, 2020
Chronicling Crisis features Tom Hamilton, Durham University, talking about diary-writing and crisis.
Further reading: J. S. Amelang (ed.), A Journal of the Plague Year: The Diary of the Barcelona Tanner Miquel Parets, 1651(1991); J. Pollmann, ‘Archiving the Present and Chronicling for the Future in Early Modern Europe’, Past & Present, 230 (2016), 231–52