Caroline Sharples

The latest episode in our Glimpses of German History series is now available!

Delighted to see the launch of Series 2 of 'Glimpses of German History'. If you're a History teacher, do consider using these films with your students as a prompt for entering the GHS Creative Research Contest. Details: www.germanhistorysociety.org/2025/09/17/c...

And then we'll take those 12 weeks and impose an extra hour per week per module...

YouTube video by German History Society Glimpses of German History Season 2: Trailer

📢 New series of the @germanhistsoc.bsky.social 'Glimpses of German History' videos coming soon! Featuring (among other things) denazification forms, stained glass windows & a samovar - all with their curious stories to tell about the past. youtu.be/qFinubQvf60?...

That's very kind.

Congratulations!

Exactly what I thought when I first saw the cover design!

Thanks, Heather!

The Long Death of Adolf Hitler - Yale University Press London A fascinating exploration of why Hitler’s death was only confirmed in 2018   Adolf Hitler has taken a long time to die, despite the lethal efficie...

Delighted to see my forthcoming book - The Long Death of Adolf Hitler - is now available for preorder... yalebooks.co.uk/book/9780300... 👀

Just ahead of the 80th anniversary of the death of Adolf Hitler, I've been delighted to contribute to this feature for BBC Mundo: www.bbc.com/mundo/articl.... The vivid headline comes from a postwar testimony from a former bodyguard & also features in my forthcoming monograph...

Join us for IHR@Sheffield!

Frank Trentmann (Birkbeck) speaks on "Complicity, Conscience and Compassion: History and Morality in Germany since the Second World War"

The lecture will take place at the University of Sheffield on Wednesday, 30 April, at 4:15pm.

Save the date, more details to follow

PhD Opportunity in International Law/History: Empire’s Other Captives: Colonial Prisoners of War, British Diplomacy, and the Laws of War 1872—1977 at University of Roehampton Start your UK & international job search for academic jobs, research jobs, science jobs and managerial jobs in leading universities and top...

Really pleased to share news of this AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Partnership between @uni-roehampton.bsky.social & @nationalarchives.gov.uk.web.brid.gy on colonial POWs, British Democracy & Laws of War: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMM400/p...

If you read the Where do you bury a Nazi NYT article (or didn’t for reasons but this interests you), check out the great work @carolinesharples.bsky.social has done on this topic 🗃️

Bonus if you check out this book: a chapter on sport during the occupation….

Thanks Heather. And that chapter on sport is awesome..

History Matters - How Should You Bury A Nazi? Caroline Sharples | 13 November 2013 ◇ Modern History | European History | Military History

Another, quick piece here: historymatters.sites.sheffield.ac.uk/blog-archive...

Thanks for posting. This is fascinating stuff. I've published a couple of pieces on burying executed war criminals (www.bloomsbury.com/uk/transform...) - and should have a new monograph on topic coming soon(ish)!

Enormous thanks to @tlgrady68.bsky.social for a fascinating paper @ihrgermanhistory.bsky.social last night - and delighted to finally get my hands on a copy of his amazing new book. It's been an absolute privilege to watch this take shape over the past couple of years.

Had a very productive & enjoyable site visit to IWM Duxford today. Some exciting research-informed activities coming soon... 👀

Aww, thank you. It's been a genuine pleasure.

Congratulations! Delighted to see this brilliant book project come to fruition.

Thank you so much for speaking to us. It's such a fascinating project!

Yes, all good. Some rather exciting book news coming soon... 👀

Congratulations, Caroline! 🥳 That's brilliant news!

Modern German History The Modern German History seminar draws scholars from all around the UK, Europe, and the wider world.

PhD candidates! We still welcome applications for our PhD showcase until 13 Dec.

Come and present your project to the wider German history crowd at a seminar on 29 Jan 2025

More details here:
www.history.ac.uk/seminars/mod...

It really is! Had the great privilege of reading through the work in progress over the past year or so.

Roehampton History students have also been working with @wienerlibrary.bsky.social to create a special exhibition on the HMD theme, 'The Fragility of Freedom'. Delighted to see their work now on display in the uni library.

Privileged to mark Holocaust Memorial Day on campus today with a talk for colleagues & students from Anne Wolfe-Skinner who came to the UK in 1939 on the Kindertransport.

Modern German History The Modern German History seminar draws scholars from all around the UK, Europe, and the wider world.

Very much looking forward to the next IHR Modern German History seminar (15 Nov, 5:30 GMT). Dr Jane Freeland will be talking about "Gender Regimes and Divided German History: Rethinking Asymmetry and Entanglement"
It's an in-person seminar, but there is an option to join online. Sign up here:

Very pleased to welcome Jeff Bowersox to speak @ Roehampton University today as part of our Enhancement Week & Black History Month. Jeff gave a fabulous paper on 'Listening through the silences of the archive' - a case study of music hall star Josephine Morcashani.

Concrete sign on a grass verge reading University of Sussex.

Lovely to be back at the University of Sussex today as an Isaacsohn & André Families' Research Fellow on the Sussex Digital Holocaust Education Project. Looking forward to exploring Mass Observation archive materials!