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Dr. Jörg Arnold

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The University of Nottingham, UK
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External Senior Fellow
September 2020 – September 2021

E-Mail: joerg.arnold@frias.uni-freiburg.de

Last Update: 31.08.2021

Curriculum Vitae

I identify as a social and cultural historian of twentieth-century Europe with a strong interest in the models and approaches of neighbouring disciplines. I joined the University of Nottingham in 2013 after holding posts at Freiburg i.Br. and Edinburgh. I was educated at the Universities of Göttingen, Edinburgh, Southampton and Heidelberg. I completed my PhD in Modern German History at the University of Southampton in 2007.

My research focuses on how societies, communities and individuals deal with sudden rupture and loss. My first book, published by Cambridge University Press in 2011, examined the long-term impact of World War II bombing on German cities. More recently, my main interest has shifted towards the social and cultural history of de-industrialisation, with particular emphasis on the British coal miners’ struggle to preserve their jobs and identities in the face of far-reaching structural changes in the period of circa 1967 to 1997.

I am currently drafting my second monograph, under contract with Routledge Publishers. I have organised two international conferences on the ‘end of coal’ in Britain, which have led to a Special Issue in Contemporary British History, the founding of a Coal & Steelworkers’ Study Group and a number of peer-reviewed publications. I am also involved in a project that seeks to save the archival holdings of the National Union of Mineworkers, Britain’s most important trade union in the second half of the twentieth century.

Selected Publications

FRIAS Project