Almost 70 years after the liberation of the concentration camps, the future of Holocaust studies has been discussed at a unique conference at the Universities of Southampton and Winchester, organised by the Parkes Institute for Jewish/non-Jewish Relations. Uniquely, it featured talks by around 60...

Professor Barbara Yorke discussed new developments in biography writing at the 2013 University of Southampton Reuter Lecture. She reflected on the recent renewal of popularity of biographies and talked about the challenges of researching and writing about people from earlier centuries. The...

What do people hear in music? How might that change over time? Why should that be of interest to historians? This lecture explores such questions by asking how Germans listened to Richard Strauss' work after 1945. In doing so it seeks to engage from a historian's perspective in and with the...