I was grateful and honoured to be jointly awarded the GHIL’s 2021 Ph.D. prize with Jonathan Triffitt this November. As with all such honours, picking the recipients was no doubt a subjective decision. Therefore, I am all the more grateful to the Institute for choosing my thesis ‘Negotiating Violence: Public Discourses about Political Violence in Interwar Britain and Germany’, as it is a piece of historical research in which I chose to acknowledge head-on how it was informed and influenced by present-day concerns along the way.
Continue reading Talking about Political Violence in Interwar Britain and GermanyAuthor: Anita Klingler
She completed her PhD in History at the University of Edinburgh, examining public discourses around political violence in interwar Britain and Germany. She was awarded the GHIL's thesis prize in 2021. Her research interests lie broadly in twentieth century European history, and language and conflict. She is interested in colonial violence, the history of National Socialism and the Holocaust, 'coming to terms' with violent pasts, as well as in contemporary history. She is currently a Teaching Associate in Modern European History at the University of Sheffield.