Dr Peter Lambert

MA (Cantab), PhD (Sussex)

Contact

Email: pal@aber.ac.uk
Office: C55
Phone: 1683

Teaching Areas

Dr Lambert teaches First Year introductory and option modules, the core undergraduate modules of Historians and the Writing of History, General Historical Problems, Skills, methods and sources, Dissertations and a Special Subject on the Third Reich. He also teaches on Masters courses.

Biography

Dr Peter Lambert MA (Cantab), PhD (Sussex) has research interests in the Weimar Republic and in uses of the past in the construction of German identities. His recent publications include 'The Professionalization and Institutionalization of History' in S. Berger et al (eds.)Writing History: Theory and Practice (2003); ed. with S Berger and P Schumann Historikerdialoge (2003); ed with P Schofield Historians and the Making of History(September 2004).

Staff Publications

2006

'A German - Korean historiographical exchange: Views from Cardigan Bay, Wales' in You-Jae Lee and Sangrok Yi (eds.), Modern Korean History from a History of Everyday Life Perspective: A new encounter between Korean and German Alltagsgeschichte (Seoul: Cum Libro, 2006), pp. 405-419 [in Korean].

2005

with Jie-Hyun Lim (guest eds.), 'Heroisation and Demonisation in Mass Dictatorships', Special Issue of Totalitarian Movements and Political Religions (vol. 6 no. 3, 2005), 110pp.
'Heroisation and Demonisation in the Third Reich' in Jie-Hyun Lim and Yong-woo Kim (eds.), Mass Dictatorship vol. 2: Political Religion and Hegemony ( Seoul: Bookworld 2005), pp. 329-362 [in Korean]

2004

with Phillipp Schofield (eds.), Making History: An Introduction to the Practices of a Discipline ( London: Routledge, 2004) xii + 310 pp.
with P. Schofield, 'Introduction', ibid., pp. 1-6
with Robert Harrison and Aled G. Jones, Part I: 'The Professionalisation of History' (Ch. 1, 'The Institutionalisation and Organisation of History'; Ch. 2, 'Methodolgy: "Scientific" History and the Problem of Objectivity'; Ch. 3, 'The Primacy of Political History'), ibid., pp. 7-59
Ch. 6, 'Social History in Germany', ibid., pp. 93-108
with P. Schofield, 'Conclusion: History and Power', ibid., pp. 290-98

2003

'The professionalization and institutionalization of history' in Berger, S, Feldner, H and Passmore K (eds.), Writing History: Theory and Practice ( London, Arnold, 2003), pp. 42-60
with Stefan Berger and Peter Schumann (eds.), Historikerdialoge. Geschichte, Mythos und Gedächtnis im deutsch-britischen kulturellen Austausch 1750-2000 (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2003) 467 pp.
with Stefan Berger, 'Intellectual Transfers and Mental Blockades: Anglo-German Dialogues in Historiography', ibid., pp. 9-61 (and in German version, ibid., pp. 63-120).
'Friedrich Thimme, G. P. Gooch and the Publication of Documents on the Origins of the First World War: Patriotism, Academic Liberty and a Search for Anglo-German Understanding, 1920-1938', ibid., pp. 275-308.

1999

'From Anti-Fascist to Volkshistoriker: Demos and Ethnos in the Political Thought of Fritz Rörig, 1921-1945' in Stefan Berger, Mark Donovan and Kevin Passmore (eds.), Apologias for the Nation-State: Historiography and Nation-Building in Italy, France and Germany since 1800 (London: Routledge, 1999), pp. 137-149.

1998

'Paving the "peculiar path": German nationalism and historiography since Ranke' in Geoffrey Cubitt (ed.), Imagining Nations (Manchester: MUP, 1998), pp. 92-109

1996

'German Identities: the Impact of Unification' in Barbara Einhorn et al. (eds.), Citizenship and Democratic Control in Contemporary Europe (London: Edward Elgar, 1996), pp. 40-53.

1995

'Generations of German historians: patronage, censorship and the containment of generational; conflict 1918-1945' in Mark Roseman (ed.), Generations in Conflict. Youth revolt and generation formation in Germany 1770-1968 (Cambridge: CUP, 1995), pp. 164-183.
'German Historians and Nazi Ideology. The Parameters of the Volksgemeinschaft and the Problem of Historical Legitimation, 1930-1945', European History Quarterly 25 (1995), pp. 555-582.