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Your Name — Writer, Scholar & Broadcaster

Writer · Scholar · Broadcaster

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Writing at the intersection of history, culture, and the present moment.

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12
Publications
34
TV Appearances
15+
Years Active

Ideas worth fighting for, arguments worth making.

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Publications

Books, essays & academic papers

2024
The Unfinished Century: Europe After the Wars
Allen Lane / Penguin Press
A reappraisal of twentieth-century European history and what it means for the crises of today.
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2022
Borderlands: A Journey Through Forgotten Europe
Faber & Faber
Longlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize. A reportage across the margins of the continent.
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2020
The Memory of Nations
Yale University Press
How societies remember — and misremember — collective trauma. Winner of the Historians' Book Prize.
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2019
After the Fall — Essay Collection
The Guardian / New York Review of Books
A selection of long-form essays on politics, culture, and historical memory published across major outlets.
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2017
Ghosts of the Republic
Oxford University Press
Academic monograph on the contested legacies of interwar Central European states.
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2015
Writing the Present: Dispatches from a Correspondent
Granta Books
Journalism and memoir from two decades of reporting from conflict zones and post-communist transitions.
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Television & Media

Appearances, panels & documentary work

Mar 2025
Newsnight
On the European security situation and NATO's eastern flank
BBC Two
Jan 2025
The Andrew Marr Show
Discussion of The Unfinished Century and its contemporary relevance
LBC / Global
Sep 2024
Channel 4 News
Live analysis: European Parliament elections and far-right surge
Channel 4
Jun 2024
Hardtalk
In conversation on memory, identity, and the war in Ukraine
BBC World
2023
Borderlands — Documentary Series
Writer and presenter of four-part original series based on the book
BBC Four
2022
Question Time
Panel member — three appearances across the year
BBC One
2021
Start the Week
The Memory of Nations discussed alongside Timothy Garton Ash and Anne Applebaum
BBC Radio 4
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Curriculum Vitae

Positions, education & selected honours

Academic & Professional
Professor of Modern History
2018–present
University College London
Chair of Twentieth-Century European Studies. Director of the Centre for Memory Studies.
Contributing Editor
2015–present
The Guardian, Long Reads
Quarterly longform essay and reportage on history, politics and culture.
Senior Research Fellow
2013–2018
St Antony's College, Oxford
Foreign Correspondent
2005–2013
The Times / The Economist
Eastern and Central Europe desk. Based in Warsaw, Prague, and Kyiv.
Education & Honours
D.Phil, Modern History
2005
University of Oxford
Thesis: "Nation, Myth and Memory in Interwar Poland". Supervisors: Prof. T. Judt, Prof. J. Gross.
BA (Hons), History, First Class
2001
Cambridge University
Awards
Historians' Book Prize
For The Memory of Nations, 2021
Baillie Gifford Prize Longlist
For Borderlands, 2022
RTS Television Journalism Award
Borderlands documentary series, 2023
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