Dr Colin Storer

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Rm 3.67, third floor of the Faculty of Arts Building 024 76523380, internal extension 23380 C.Storer@warwick.ac.uk Monday 10-11am and Tuesday 2-3pm

 

Academic Profile

1998-2001: BA (Hons.) History and Politics, Keele University

2002-2006: PhD, Modern History, The Univesity of Nottingham

2004-2007: Seminar Tutor, The University of Nottingham

2007-2008: Lecturer, De Montfort University

2008-2009: Teaching Fellow in Modern German History, The University of Warwick

2009-2012: Teaching Associate in Twentieth Century History, The University of Nottingham

2012-2013: Teaching Fellow in Modern German History, The University of Warwick

2013-2014: Teaching Associate in Twentieth Century History, The University of Nottingham

2014-2016: Teaching Fellow in Modern European History, The University of Warwick

2016-2019: Senior Teaching Fellow in Modern European History, The University of Warwick

2019-Present: Associate Professor in Modern European History, The University of Warwick

Teaching

• HI153 Making of the Modern World (undergraduate first-year core module)
• HI290 History of Germany, From Bismarck to the Berlin Republic (undergraduate second-year option module)
• HI2J7 The Weimar Republic, 1918-1933Link opens in a new window (undergraduate second-year option module)
• HI3G7 Amity, Antagonism and Appeasement: Anglo-German Encounters, 1871-1945 (undergraduate final-year option module)
• HI3T4 From Fireplace to Cyberspace: The Folklore of Europe from Prehistory to the Present (undergraduate final-year option module)

Research Interests

• Anglo-German relations in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries
• The Weimar Republic
• European Cultural History in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries (especially popular culture and media history)
• The folklore of Europe

Public Engagement

• BBC Radio 4 In Our Time - Paul von HindenburgLink opens in a new window
• Historical Association Film Series - Power and Authority in Germany, 1871-1914 IntroductionLink opens in a new window
• Historical Association Podcast - Bismarck, German Unification and the Rise of the German EmpireLink opens in a new window
• Historical Association Podcast - Weltpolitik and German NationalismLink opens in a new window
• Historical Association Podcast - How Democratic was Germany by 1914?Link opens in a new window
• Historical Association Podcast - How United was Germany in 1914?Link opens in a new window
• Historical Association Podcast - Was the Weimar Republic the heir to the German Empire?Link opens in a new window

Publications

Books:

• A Short History of the Weimar Republic: Revised Edition (2024) Bloomsbury; LondonLink opens in a new window
• A Short History of the Weimar Republic (2013) I. B. Tauris; London
• Britain and the Weimar Republic: The History of a Cultural Relationship (2010) I. B. Tauris; London

Articles in Peer-Reviewed Journals:

• 'A "Wholly Unjustifiable Treatment of British Subject"? The Detention of W. T. Goode in the Baltic, 1919', History: The Journal of the Historical Association (2025)Link opens in a new window
• 'Censoring an "English Renegade" in Germany: The Case of Morgan Philips Price', The Historical Journal 
  Volume 61, Issue 3 (September 2018), pp. 767-786Link opens in a new window
• “‘The German of Caricature, the Real German, the Fellow we were up Against’: German Stereotypes in John Buchan’s Greenmantle”, Journal of European Studies, Vol. 39, No. 1 (March 2009), pp. 36-57Link opens in a new window
• 'Weimar Germany as seen by an Englishwoman: British Women Writers and the Weimar Republic', German Studies Review, Vol. 32, no. 1 (Feb 2009), pp. 129-147Link opens in a new window

Other Articles:

• '"Dropping the Pilot: Bismarck's Fall and its Consequences', Modern History Review, Vol. 28, No. 1 (2025), pp. 24-8
• 'Zero Hour? The Post-war Reconstruction of West Germany', Modern History Review, Vol. 27, No. 3 (2024/5)
• 'Turning Failure into Victory: The Beer Hall Putsch and the Making of Hitler', Modern History Review, Vol. 26, No. 2 (2023)
• 'German Unification and its Consequences', Modern History Review, Vol. 24, No. 3 (2022), pp.30-3
• 'Reinterpreting the Weimar Republic', History Today, Vol. 65, No. 7 (2015), pp. 28-30Link opens in a new window

Book Reviews:

• Kracauer: A Biography by Jorg Spater, Correspondence 1923-1966 by Siegfried Kracauer and Theodor W Adorno (edited by Wolfgang Schopf), and Weimar Controversies: Explorations in Popular Culture with Siegfried Kracauer by Peter S. Fisher (German History, Vol. 40, No. 2 (2022), pp. 301-305)
• From Weimar to Hitler: Studies in the Dissolution of the Weimar Republic and the Establishment of the Third Reich, 1932-1934. Edited by Hermann Beck and Larry Eugene Jones (History, Vol. 106, No. 369 (2021), pp. 145-7)
• Oil and the Great Powers: Britain and Germany, 1914-1945. By Anand Toprani (German History, Vol. 37, No. 4 (2019), pp. 587-8)
• Heligoland: Britain, Germany and the Struggle for the North Sea. By Jan Ruger (European History Quarterly 47:4 (2017), pp. 780-1)
• A Vision of Europe: Franco-German Relations during the Great Depression, 1929-1932. By Conan Fischer (History, Volume 102, Issue 352 (2017), pp. 716-718)
• The German Right in the Weimar Republic (Reviews in History, review no. 1973Link opens in a new window (August 2016))
• Rethinking the Weimar Republic: Authority and Authoritarianism, 1916-1936 (Reviews in History, review no. 1636 Link opens in a new window(August 2014))
• British Images of Germany: Admiration, Antagonism and Ambivalence, 1860-1914 (Reviews in History, review no. 1380Link opens in a new window(February 2013))
• Fascism and the Jews: Italy and Britain (Studies in Ethnicity and Nationality, Vol. 12, No. 2 (2012), pp. 420-3)
• Work in a Modern Society: The German Historical Experience in Comparative Perspective (European Review of History, Vol. 18, No. 4 (2011))
• German Colonialism, Visual Culture, and Modern Memory (European Review of History, Vol. 18, No. 5 (2011))