Staff profiles
Professor Matthew Stibbe
Phone 0114 225 3535
E-mail m.stibbe@shu.ac.uk
Research interests/current work
- the First and Second World Wars
- 20th century Germany, with special emphasis on the 1914/18 period
- the Kaiser
- gender and history, in particular women and Nazism
- East and West German historiography in the post-1945 period
- ideology and politics in the early GDR
Current work includes
- a major project on civilian internment during the First World War
- an extended essay on historical writing on the First World War in East and West Germany from 1945 to 1990
- an edited book (with Kevin McDermott) on the 1989 revolutions in Central and Eastern Europe, following on from our successful British Academy-funded conference at Sheffield Hallam in September 2009
Research collaborations
- new project with Kevin McDermott at Sheffield Hallam and Miriam Dobson of the University of Sheffield on former victims of Stalinist terror in the post-1953 Soviet bloc
- member of research network Historische Vorstellungswelten in Ost und West. Konturen einer vergleichenden Historiographiegeschichte im geteilten Deutschland, based at the University of Jena, Germany
Research outputs since 2001
Books
Edited book with Ingrid Sharp, Aftermaths of War: Women's Movements and Female Activists, 1918-1923 (Leiden: Brill, 2011)
Germany, 1914-1933: Politics, Society and Culture (Harlow: Pearson, 2010)
Edited book with Kevin McDermott, Stalinist Terror in Eastern Europe: Elite Purges and Mass Repression (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2010)
Edited book, Captivity, Forced Labour and Forced Migration in Europe During the First World War (London: Routledge, 2009)
British Civilian Prisoners of War in Germany. The Ruhleben Camp, 1914-1918 (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2008)
German Anglophobia and the Great War, 1914-1918 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001, republished as paperback, 2006)
Edited book with Kevin McDermott (eds.), Revolution and Resistance in Eastern Europe. Challenges to Communist Rule (Oxford: Berg, 2006)
Women in the Third Reich (London: Arnold, 2003)
Journal articles
'Juergen Kuczynski and the Search for a (Non-Existent) Western Spy Ring in the East German Communist Party in 1953', Contemporary European History, 20/1 (January 2011), pp. 61-79
'Civilian Internment and Civilian Internees in Europe, 1914-1920', Immigrants and Minorities, 26/1-2 (March-July 2008), pp. 49-81
'The Internment of Civilians During the First World War and the Response of the International Committee of the Red Cross, Journal of Contemporary History, 41/1 (January 2006), pp. 5-19
A Question of Retaliation? The Internment of British Civilians in Germany in November 1914, Immigrants and Minorities, 23/1 (March 2005), pp. 1-29
The Fischer Controversy over German War Aims in the First World War and its Reception by East German Historians, 1961-1989, The Historical Journal, 46/3 (September 2003), pp. 649-68
Nationalism, Anti-Feminism and the German Right, 1914-1920. A Reappraisal, German History, 20/2 (May 2002), pp. 185-210
