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The Shortest History of England (2020) reached #4 in The Times non-fiction pb bestsellers. His latest book is Brilliant Isles , the tie-in to the BBCTV series Art That Made Us (2022). Throughout June 2022 he was on the three-person writing team chosen by Andrew Davies to help create an original TV drama series for Lionsgate.
During the German Empire (1871–1918), the "East Elbian Junker" formed the monarchy's reactionary backbone. Later, in Weimar Republic (1918–1933), it became a politically charged term used especially by the leftist parties to denote the rich civil servants of the conservative, right-wing German National People's Party (DNVP) who fit the ...
A German cartoon from 1834 poking fun at the microscopic size of the Principality of Schaumburg-Lippe, one of the many tiny states of the German Confederation Early 19th century anti-Kleinstaaterei cartoon calling for the elimination of the myriad custom barriers between statelets The hyper-fragmented Principality of Ansbach The ancient Prince-Bishopric of Liège, with its tormented geography ...
Hoyer was born in Guben, East Germany, [5] where her mother was a teacher and her father an East German military officer. [6] She received a Master's degree from the University of Jena [3] and moved to the United Kingdom in about 2010. [7] Hoyer is a visiting research fellow at King's College London and has published two books about the history ...
By 1900, Germany was the dominant power on the European continent and its rapidly expanding industry had surpassed Britain's while provoking it in a naval arms race. Germany led the Central Powers in World War I, but was defeated, partly occupied, forced to pay war reparations, and stripped of its colonies and significant territory along its ...
A History of Modern Germany: vol 2: 1648–1840 (1961) Hughes, Michael. Early Modern Germany, 1477–1806 (1992). Lewis, Margaret Brannan. Infanticide and Abortion in Early Modern Germany (2016). Robisheaux, Thomas. Rural society and the search for order in early modern Germany (2002). Rowlands, Alison. "Witchcraft and old women in Early Modern ...
The historiography of Germany deals with the manner in which historians have depicted, analyzed and debated the history of Germany.It also covers the popular memory of critical historical events, ideas and leaders, as well as the depiction of those events in museums, monuments, reenactments, pageants and historic sites, and the editing of historical documents.
Classification: People: By occupation: Academics / Non-fiction writers: Historians: By nationality: German Also: Germany : People : By occupation : Academics / Non-fiction writers : Historians Pages in this category should be moved to subcategories where applicable.