DOUBLE SESSION: The Greatest Catastrophe? Germany in the First World War /

This exciting double session will showcase the range of options available to you within Goldsmiths' History degrees. The session will be split into two parts:
The Greatest Catastrophe? Germany in the First World War

This part explores Germany’s extraordinary struggle during the 1914-18 war, and the ordeal’s evil legacy. It asks why Germans mobilised against – in their emperor’s words – ‘a world of enemies’ and if examines the fateful radicalisation of violence through the conflict. Germany was subjected to brutal invasion and illegal ‘starvation blockade’, and it perpetrated many of its own vicious war crimes, most especially in East-Central Europe. The lecture shows how the experience shattered German society, polarised politics and spawned the dreams of racial conquest later embraced by the Nazis.

Is there Black British history outside of Britain?

Black British history has become increasingly popular in recent years and—in the wake of the resurgence of the Black Lives Matter movement last summer and the ongoing Windrush Scandal—increasingly important. However, how we think about Black British history and what it includes shapes the power of the field, which has the ability to reshape how we understand the history of Britain. So what happens when we step beyond the British Isles? This lecture will serve as an introduction to a global Black British history, using the Caribbean as an example of the exciting possibilities this field presents.