History: Kris Inwood's new book is here!
Professor Kris Inwood's new edited collection has just been published and features insights from Kris' work with the Historical Data Research Unit in the Department. Congratulations from all of us!
from the jacket: Collective histories and broad social change are informed by the ways in which personal lives unfold. Lives in Transition examines individual experiences within such collective histories during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. This collection brings together sources from Europe, North America, and Australia in order to advance the field of quantitative longitudinal historical research.
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Professor Kris Inwood's new edited collection has just been published and features insights from Kris' work with the 
Our own Dr. Christine Ekholst has just published a monograph, A Punishment for Each Criminal: Gender and Crime in Swedish Medieval Law, with
Our own Dr. Christine Ekholst has just published a monograph, A Punishment for Each Criminal: Gender and Crime in Swedish Medieval Law, with
A journalist asked me recently ‘what were you doing when the Berlin Wall fell?’ I was fourteen years old in 1989; I wasn’t thinking about the collapse of communism, but about scoring goals in my next football match. Football, not politics, was the centre of my world. And I wasn’t the only one. Andy Meyer, a teammate of the future German goalkeeper Robert Enke, recalled how their team in the East German town of Jena barely noticed the momentous events of 1989 and 1990. ‘There was nothing crucial about it for us kids. The football training just went on.’ Football can be appropriated by mighty organisations. It can also resist them. The journalist’s question got me thinking again about the title of my new book on East German football, The People’s Game.
A journalist asked me recently ‘what were you doing when the Berlin Wall fell?’ I was fourteen years old in 1989; I wasn’t thinking about the collapse of communism, but about scoring goals in my next football match. Football, not politics, was the centre of my world. And I wasn’t the only one. Andy Meyer, a teammate of the future German goalkeeper Robert Enke, recalled how their team in the East German town of Jena barely noticed the momentous events of 1989 and 1990. ‘There was nothing crucial about it for us kids. The football training just went on.’ Football can be appropriated by mighty organisations. It can also resist them. The journalist’s question got me thinking again about the title of my new book on East German football, The People’s Game.
When the Berlin Wall fell in November 1989, Alan McDougall was thinking about what was often on his 14-year-old mind: soccer. The end of the Cold War registered only as a backdrop to the coming weekend’s contest on the pitch in southern England. “I do remember playing football that weekend, and somehow having an association of my regular life going on while these events were occurring that were world-changing,” says McDougall, now a U of G history professor.