Imagining Reconstruction in Western Europe during and after the First World War

Here is the podcast of the latest seminar of the Centre for War Studies at Trinity College Dublin. It was held last week and was the opportunity for me to present and discuss my current project alongside Dr. Alex Dowdall, my friend and colleague at TCD. The discussion was chaired by Prof. John Horne.

Rebuilding European Lives. 1914-1939

Rebuilding European Lives. The reconstitution of urban communities in interwar France and Belgium (1914-1939). Paper presented at the “Recreating historical cities after WWI” Conference, Kalisz (Poland), 16-17 April 2015   In July 1998, in Noyon, a medium-sized town in northern France, construction workers pulled down the decayed community hall and chopped down the acacias which had […]

Through the Fog of War

My introduction to Aftermath. Legacies and Memories of War in Europe, 1918–1945–1989 (Ashgate: 2014), co-edited with two of my favourite former colleagues at Birmingham, Nick Martin and Tim Haughton.