Martin Gropius Bau, venetian friezes, Gestapo HQ, Berlin Wall death strip (Clockwise from top left) My new novel, Fables & Lies: A World...

'I know no one ever believes us nowadays – everyone thinks we knew everything. We knew nothing, it was all kept well secret....

German revolutionaries (Wikimedia Commons) Nationalism in its modern form was born in 1848, the Year of Revolutions, and it was a very ...

This month marks the 70th anniversary of the end of the Warsaw Uprising. By the summer of 1944 the tide of the Second World War had turned....

Marie-Louise Jensen: Today on the History Girls blog, I'm pleased to introduce Anne Booth, author of Girl With A White Dog , which I r...

This is a photocopy of a letter written eighty years ago this week, denouncing my grandfather, Lieutenant Bernhard Rösel, of the Zabrze-Hi...

Building on my last blog post in March - history is annoying - I have decided to tackle the even more contentious issue of history being poi...

I don't have a photo of my mother as a teenager, but here she is aged 20. Gerda, my mother, was the daughter of a police office...