See what’s coming up at the library, or you may be interested in past events.
In this Virtual PhD and a Cup of Tea talk, Julia Eisner talks about visibility in the archive and its consequences, with a focus on Lotte Eisner, the well-known film historian and author of major retrospective studies of Weimar cinema.
Tickets (both in-person and virtual) are available for the second annual Alfred Wiener Holocaust Memorial Lecture at the Museum of London. Professor Jan Grabowski will discuss how scholars of the Holocaust find themselves confronted with the hostile reactions of various states pursuing the policies of Holocaust distortion.
In this in-person talk, exhibition co-curators, Roland Clark and Tim Grady, will explore what people meant by fascism from a variety of countries, offering a new way of thinking about what fascism was in interwar Europe.
Learn how to take the first steps in conducting your own family research using the International Tracing Service archive of the Linen Hall Library’s resources. This workshop will provide a demonstration of the ITS archive and a skills workshop as well as the opportunity for short, one-on-one consultations with the panellists.
This event will explore the history of the ITS archive and what it reveals about the Second World War helps provide context for research, both family and academic, within the archive itself. The discussion will include themes raised by the exhibition, including war, migration, rupture, survival and victimhood.
In this virtual lecture, Professor Marja Jalava will follow the transnational turn within the broader field of fascist studies by focusing on the Lapua Movement and the Patriotic People’s Movement as Finnish manifestations of a European-wide, transnational mobilisation.
This virtual workshop, aimed at British secondary school teachers and educators, will critically consider the use of photographs in Holocaust education.
In this lecture, Dr Chris Millington will explore the origins and consequences of the violence, including the various fascist movements in French politics.
'The Dressmakers of Auschwitz' exposes the greed, cruelty and hypocrisy of the Third Reich and offers a fresh look at a little-known chapter of the Second World War and the Holocaust. Author Lucy Adlington in conversation with Imogen Dalziel.
The virtual launch of a major new collection of nearly 300 filmed interviews with 'Third Reich' contemporaries, which enhances our understanding of everyday life in Nazi Germany and Nazi-occupied Europe, and of post-war reflections on responsibility, complicity, and justice, of ‘ordinary’ people who were implicated in, witnesses to, or on the periphery of war and genocide.
In this virtual lecture, Sophie Fetthauer will present her recently published monograph exploring the experiences of the musicians who fled Nazi persecution in Germany and Austria to Shanghai from 1938 to 1949.
In this virtual talk, aimed at GCSE and A-Level students, the Library’s Head of Education will draw upon the Library’s rich and diverse collections of original historical material to provide an introduction to the key events and the main features of the Holocaust.
