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- Title
Chancing Your Arm: The Origins and Early Years of Contemporary European History.
- Authors
BURK, KATHLEEN
- Abstract
In 1989 I was chatting to Anthony Seldon, then the head of the Institute of Contemporary British History in London, and we agreed that the turmoil and resultant developments in the Eastern bloc gave hope for the rise of a new Europe. We were academics, and we immediately considered how information and ideas about these exciting events might be provided to the academic community. What about a journal? We looked around. There were many journals focusing on what was then termed Western Europe, and some on the bloc then termed Eastern Europe, as well as on the USSR; there was a journal on contemporary history in toto, although it was then in something of a quiescent period. Our conclusion was that there was no general academic journal which stood back and focused on the whole of Europe from the Atlantic to the Urals, as the area was then described. We decided that something should be done about it.
- Subjects
EUROPEAN history; SOCIAL conditions in Europe; EUROPE-Great Britain relations; EUROPEAN Community; EUROPE-Soviet Union relations; TWENTIETH century; HISTORY; 20TH century European history
- Publication
Contemporary European History, 2016, Vol 25, Issue 1, p5
- ISSN
0960-7773
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1017/S0960777315000569