Popular Photography and the Third Reich
March 23, 2016
How should historians use “vernacular photography,” pictures and snaps taken for personal use, and not for publication? In a new article for the journal Central European History (see link), Professor Maiken Umbach addresses this question by exploring the significance of personal photography and photo-album making during Third Reich. These records offer valuable insights into everyday …
New Histories of Anglo-German Diplomacy under Elizabeth I and James VI and I
March 14, 2016
In his 1569 account of ‘The State of Germany’, the English diplomat Robert Beale recorded that, at mealtimes, the Count Palatine of the Rhine kept twenty-four tables of eight people each in two different rooms. ‘In the one place … sitteth himself, his wife, and Children standing att one Table, alone … And his gentlewomen …
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