3rd September 2009
For anyone reading this blog for the first time, I am a PhD history student at the Centre for Contemporary British History at the University of London, researching the British in occupied Germany after the end of World War Two. I am now in the third year of a six year part-time course. In my view, history is a process of discovery, and I try to post something new and interesting on this blog once a week, as I work my way through the research.
Here is a list of all posts since May 2007. For earlier posts, see the previous list
Stephen Spender on Humphrey Jennings, libraries, and his Humber car 6th June 2009
More on Stephen Spender and post-war Germany 1st June 2009
Stephen Spender – European Witness 9th May 2009
Marriage with ‘ex-enemy nationals’ 2nd May 2009
General Sir Brian Horrocks – Corps Commander 24th April 2009
Why did Field-Marshal Montgomery believe that a Germany that 'looked East’ was ‘a menace to the British Empire’? 5th April 2009
What did Field-Marshal Montgomery mean by ‘Winning the Peace’ in 1945? 30th March 2009
Field-Marshal Montgomery and the fraternisation ban 14th March 2009
Field-Marshal Montgomery’s ‘Notes on the occupation of Germany’, part 1 21st February 2009
Stealing coal in Germany after the war 14th February 2009
Field-Marshal Montgomery as Military Governor of the British Zone of Germany 1st February 2009
Eckernförde under British Occupation 25th January 2009
John Bayley – In Another Country 18th January 2009
Patrick Gordon-Walker – the Lid Lifts (part 2) 9th January 2009
Patrick Gordon-Walker – the Lid Lifts 4th January 2009
Amy Buller – Darkness over Germany 15th December 2008
The documentary film 'School in Cologne' made in 1948 6th December 2008
More on Goronwy Rees’ six day tour of Germany, 1945 30th November 2008
Turning Points: when and why did British policy in Germany change after the end of the Second World War? 23rd November 2008
‘GIs and Germans’ by Petra Goedde 15th November 2008
Another Two Kreis Resident Officers 9th November 2008
More about the film: K.R.O. Germany 1947 5th November 2008
Kreis Resident Officer – The film K.R.O. Germany 1947 2nd November 2008
Justum et tenacem propositi virum – the wise man, firm of purpose 26th October 2008
How three British army offices reacted to the transition from war to peace in Germany, 1945 28th June 2008
More on Major General Sir Alec Bishop 19th May 2008
Major General Sir Alec Bishop 12th May 2008
Goronwy Rees on Weimar Germany 3rd May 2008
Goronwy Rees on Field Marshal Montgomery27th April 2008
Goronwy Rees and Sir William Strang’s six day tour of Germany in 194518th April 2008
Goronwy Rees and his preface to Der Fragebogen by Ernst von Salomon 12th April 2008
Konrad Adenauer and his dismissal as Mayor of Cologne by the British in 1945 30th March 2008
Sholto Douglas – and the German Luftwaffe 3rd March 2008
More on Sholto Douglas – and his opposition to the death penalty 23rd February 2008
Sholto Douglas: the second Military Governor of the British Zone of Germany 18th February 2008
Mass Observation at the Movies 8th February 2008
‘You have to see it to believe it’: British first impressions of Germany after the war 2nd February 2008
E F (Fritz) Schumacher 26th January 2008
Follow the People (continued) 20th January 2008
Follow the People 13th January 2008
Happy New Year 8th January 2008
Drew Middleton: The Struggle for Germany 8th December 2007
British and US first impressions of Germany in 1945 1st December 2007
Potsdam 1945 to Western Germany 1965: A Miracle 24th November 2007
Sir Brian Robertson 18th November 2007
Englishness and Empire and ‘Winning the Peace’ 11th November 2007
Finest Hour – films by Humphrey Jennings 3rd November 2007
Winning the Peace – the British in occupied Germany 1945-51 29th October 2007
The Battle of the Winter 23rd July 2007
Germany in 1945 and Britain in 1967 as 'super-Sweden' 14th July 2007
‘Germany under Control’ exhibition 2nd July 2007
Alec Cairncross – 'The Price of War' and 'A Country to Play With' 24th June 2007
Ratchford and Ross – Berlin Reparations Assignment 18th June 2007
George Clare – Berlin Days 9th June 2007
Ivone Kirkpatrick – The Inner Circle 2nd June 2007
The Bonfire of Berlin – a lost childhood in wartime Germany 29th May 2007
Germany Year Zero 20th May 2007
How it really was 