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

• 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)
• HI3T4 From Fireplace to Cyberspace: The Folklore of Europe from Prehistory to the Present (undergraduate final-year option module)
• HI9B7 Amity, Antagonism and Appeasement: Anglo-German Encounters, 1871-1945Link opens in a new window (MA optional module)

Research

I am historian of Britain and Germany in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, with a particular focus on Anglo-German cultural encounters before and after the First World War and the history of the Weimar Republic. My work has appeared in internationally recognized peer-reviewed journals and in monographs published by leading academic publishers. I am currently working on three projects dealing with the ways in which the British press reported Wilhelmine political scandals, the representation of the Weimar Republic in contemporary Anglophone media, and the reception of the Finnish epic the Kalevala in Britain.

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, Vol. 111, No. 396 (2026), pp.Link opens in a new window 386-403
• '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))