In today’s episode, we continue our series on graduate student research with an interview with Daniel Adamson. We discuss Daniel’s research on how the British response to the Holocaust is represented in schools and museums, as well as how Daniel uses approaches from memory studies to information his research.
Daniel Adamson is a PhD student at Durham University whose research focuses on representations of the British response to the Holocaust in schools, museums and other educational settings. Daniel writes for The Conversation, as well as the British Association for Holocaust Studies’ blog and the University of Cambridge ‘Doing History in Public’ project.
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Plans for a UK Holocaust Memorial looked promising, but now debate has stalled by Daniel Adamson
Textbook Portrayals of Britain and the Holocaust by Daniel Adamson
Resilience or reticence? Holocaust memory in the United Kingdom with Daniel Adamson