Work

Review of David B. Dennis' Inhumanities. Nazi Interpretations of Western Culture (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012), in Reviews in History.

For the past few years, David B. Dennis has had the unenviable task of steeping himself in the (turgid, yet strangely compelling) prose of the Völkischer Beobachter, the Nazi party’s major propaganda organ, and the Third Reich’s dailyRead more...

Presented at an international conference on Graeco-Roman Antiquity and the Idea of Nationalism in the 19th Century, University of Durham, 22 June 2013.Read more...

Presented at an international conference on 'Post-Classicisms', University of Cambridge, 17 June 2013.Read more...

Review of Veterans and Weimar Political Culture, by Benjamin Ziemann (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012), in The English Historical Review 131 (553), December 2016, pp. 1569-71.

Views of the Weimar Republic as essentially anarchic, unloved and unmourned have been extensively questioned in recent scholarship. Still, popular pronouncements tend to perpetuate such impressions – witness one critic of a recent exhibition, who began with the statement that ‘Nobody in Germany liked the Weimar Republic’. Read more...

Review of Daniel M. Knight, History, Time, and Economic Crisis in Central Greece (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015) and Sheila Lecoeur, Mussolini’s Greek Island: Fascism and the Italian Occupation of Syros in World War II (London: I.B. Tauris, 2015), in Reviews in History.

There were times during the resurgence of the economic crisis in 2015 when it seemed as if 'Greek-bashing' had become a pan-European pastime. In this fraught international context, Daniel Knight’s first monograph provides a salutary reminder of the human consequences of austerity.Read more...

Public lecture, given at the Wiener Library for the Study of the Holocaust and Genocide, London, 24 May 2013.Read more...

Review of Johanna Hanink's The Classical Debt: Greek Antiquity in an Era of Austerity (Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2017), in Reviews in History.

At the height of the Greek financial crisis, reports from colleagues based in Athens painted a sorry picture of citizens who had fallen upon hard times desperately rummaging in dustbins to supplement their dwindling larders. The statistics told an even grimmer story – between 2010 and 2011, suicide rates in Greece rose by 40 per cent.Read more...

Presented at Declines and Falls: Perspectives in European History and Historiography - Twenty Years of the European Review of History / Revue européenne d'histoire - An Anniversary Conference, Central European University, Budapest, 17 May 2013.Read more...

Presented at the Classical Association Conference 2013, University of Reading, 5 April 2013.Read more...

Presented at an international conference on Anglo-German Perceptions and Prejudices since 1800, University of Cambridge, 21-22 March 2013.Read more...