From Monday 12 June to Wednesday 14 June, the Materialising the Cold War team brought together international experts from across historical, museological, heritage and memory studies backgrounds to discuss Cold War Museology at a conference held at the National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh. What questions are raised by collecting and exhibiting Cold War material in
Category: Research Blog
Professor Holger Nehring recently published an essay in Labour History Review entitled ‘War Times: Layers of history in Russia’s war on Ukraine’. To read the article follow this link: https://doi.org/10.3828/lhr.2022.11 Full citation: Peter Gurney, Matthew Grant, Grace Huxford, Christoph Laucht, Jennifer Luff, Holger Nehring. 2022. “Round Table: The New Cold War.” Labour History Review 87 (3): 277-312.
In this essay for the Scottish Association for Teachers of History (SATH) Yearbook 2022, Jessica Douthwaite considers how to teach the end of one era and beginning of another in schools without diminishing the contextual interplay between the two. Focusing on the years that bridge Second World War and Cold War histories she offers three
– this was the title of a boundary-pushing exhibition held in the grounds of a military airbase in 1999. The base, adjacent to the Norwegian Aviation Museum in Bodø, gave curators Karl Kleve and Bodil Nyaas an apt location in which to consider how the Cold War framed contemporary society. They had been keen, both
Cold War Museology: How museums shape(d) our understanding of the Cold War We invite practitioners and academics to propose papers for an international conference hosted in Edinburgh in June 2023, that will bring together inter-disciplinary and international research on Cold War museology. We aim broadly to analyse the current condition of the material heritage the
Samuel J.M.M. Alberti & Holger Nehring (2022) The Cold War in European museums – filling the ‘empty battlefield’, International Journal of Heritage Studies, 28:2, 180-199, DOI: 10.1080/13527258.2021.1954054 Recent historical research has analysed the Cold War as an ‘imaginary war’, an interpretation that poses specific challenges for displaying the conflict in museums. In contrast to well-established representations of the First and Second World