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How Should You Bury A Nazi?
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 the...
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Remembering the Forgotten War: Korean veterans and the power of public memory
Over the next four years, historians and the public alike have been called upon to commemorate and remember the First World War. Countless documentaries, articles, books and blogs have been prepared...
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War, morality and violence in the early Middle Ages
I was recently surprised when a group of my students, asked to describe the early Middle Ages, almost entirely chose to describe the period as ‘violent’. More fool me, of course, because everyone knows...
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Wounded warriors or pension neurotics? Disabled veterans in the ‘land fit for...
The overwhelming success of the commemorative poppy installation at the Tower of London has highlighted the enduring public sympathy for those killed during the First World War. Meanwhile, the recent...
View ArticlePoppies, football and remembering the dead: they’ve always been political
In 1919 a series of special international football matches were held between the British home nations. They were not to honour or remember the dead but to celebrate victory in the Great War. For all...
View ArticleMilitarism, Immigrants, and Modern America
As the world commemorates the centenary of the First World War and the US begins to grudgingly do the same for its entry, it is worth looking at what America thought it was, what it was fighting for in...
View Article“Confederate Heritage Month” and the Memory of the American Civil War
The history of the American Civil War is very much about memory and, in recent years, the construction and contestation of this memory has played out on social media platforms like Twitter. While this...
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