Historian of the Holocaust and Christian-Jewish relations | PhD from @uclhjs
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18 Aug 2023
I'm delighted to have my first journal article published in the English Historical Review - '"The True Physicians Here are the Padres": British Christian Army Chaplains and the Liberation of Bergen-Belsen', @enghistrev
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15 Oct 2024
FINAL CALL❕
Join us tonight, 1830hrs at The Guards’ Chapel, London, for a Lecture by Dr Rob Thompson on Army Chaplaincy at the Liberation of Bergen-Belsen.
FREE tickets are still available on Eventbrite
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8 Oct 2024
Just a week to go until I give the Royal Army Chaplains' Museum Annual Lecture at the Guards Chapel, reflecting on army chaplaincy at the liberation of Bergen-Belsen.
If you can get to London on 15 October 18.30, free tickets are available here - bit.ly/3Z0E4tR
Join us next Tuesday evening for a lecture by Dr Rob Thompson on Army Chaplaincy at the Liberation of Bergen-Belsen.
When: 15th October, 1830
Where: The Guards’ Chapel, London
👉Book your FREE tickets now on Eventbrite bit.ly/3Z0E4tR
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Rob Thompson retweeted
Two weeks to go...
Join us at 1830 on Tuesday 15 October at The Guards’ Chapel for a Lecture by Dr Rob Thompson on Army Chaplaincy at the Liberation of Bergen-Belsen.
Book your FREE ticket now on Eventbrite
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9 Sep 2024
I'm looking forward to delivering the Royal Army Chaplains' Museum Annual Lecture on 15 October at @TheGuardsChapel in London.
I'll be discussing the unique contribution of army chaplains in the liberation of Bergen-Belsen.
Free tickets can be booked - bit.ly/3Z0E4tR
Join us at 18:30 on Tuesday 15th October at The Guards’ Chapel for a Lecture by Dr Rob Thompson on Army Chaplaincy at the Liberation of Bergen-Belsen.
Book your FREE ticket now on Eventbrite
👉bit.ly/3Z0E4tR
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6 Jun 2024
Remembering the chaplains on #DDay80. I wrote this 5 years ago in @MethRecorder about Leslie Skinner. He landed on D-Day with the Sherwood Rangers, dedicating himself to supporting his comrades and burying the dead. A remarkable Christian witness in war: "I go with them" he said.
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5 Jun 2024
Very sorry to hear Prof Jürgen Moltmann has died. It was one of the highlights of my time at CCJ to organise this lecture. Just weeks before the first Covid lockdown, a packed room hung on his every word.
"Truth is the first act of freedom, however painful the truth may be."
4 Jun 2024
We are saddened to hear of the death of Prof Jürgen Moltmann, one of the most influential Protestant theologians of recent times. CCJ was honoured to host Prof Moltmann at one of his last speaking engagements in the UK, in 2020, on Jewish and Christian theologies after Auschwitz
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23 May 2024
Proud to graduate with my PhD and a new hat 🎓 Thank you to all my teachers over the years, to Shirli Gilbert, my brilliant supervisor, to @uclhjs, a wonderful academic community, and to @wolfsonfdn for a Postgraduate Scholarship which made my research possible.
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17 May 2024
David Stewart is a key person in the book I am writing on Christians in the aftermath of the Holocaust. You can read more about his Belsen pamphlet in my @enghistrev article, "The True Physicians Here are the Padres"
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17 May 2024
Reverend David Stewart was sent to Bergen-Belsen as a British Military Chaplain in May 1945
In this pamphlet he describes what he saw in the camp shortly after its liberation, including conversations with people about their lives before they were deported bit.ly/4afKmrf
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3 Apr 2024
A 'research report' from me in the latest edition of Contemporary Church History Quarterly, discussing my research journey and current work:
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24 Mar 2024
"the Methodist church was a place where what was high and mighty mixed with the ordinary and the day-to-day..."
A beautiful essay, by Robert Colls, on Methodist culture and what its loss would mean not just for us Methodists but for British democracy.
24 Mar 2024
“The closure of a Methodist chapel on Tyneside tells a story of England’s dwindling congregations – and highlights the loss of a vibrant community life that cannot be replaced.”
🖊️ Robert Colls
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6 Mar 2024
Pleased to share my review of @DorisBergen's 'Between God and Hitler: Military Chaplains in Nazi Germany' - "sure to become one of the essential texts in understanding the place of the Church, and of Christianity, in the murder of six million Jews":
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3 Jan 2024
Safely arrived in Washington DC and excited to begin my research fellowship at the Mandel Center, @HolocaustMuseum. Time to turn my thesis into a book!
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30 Nov 2023
I'm thrilled to say that yesterday I passed my viva - the final stage of my PhD. Huge thanks to my incredible examiners, Profs. John K. Roth (zooming in from the US west coast) and Tony Kushner and to the most wonderful supervisor, Prof. Shirli Gilbert.
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30 Nov 2023
This long journey would not have been possible without a lot of support from many people, not least a place @uclhjs and funding from a @wolfsonfdn scholarship. Thank you!
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28 Nov 2023
Positive news and a pinch of Jewish humor.
Returnees from Gaza have confirmed that historian Alex Danzig, held by #Hamas, is alive, fairly well, and even giving lectures to fellow hostages.
Alex’s son in law, this morning on Israeli radio: “Well, at least he now has a captive audience”.
21 Oct 2023
Alex Danzig (75) is a renowned historian who has dedicated his life to Holocaust education.
He spent the last 30 years working at @yadvashem.
He has been missing since Hamas terrorists attacked his home in Nir Oz.
We stand in solidarity with his family and pray for his return.
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11 Nov 2023
5 years ago I was in Jerusalem for a @yadvashemschool seminar and on the 100th anniversary of the Armistice I laid a wreath at the @CWGC cemetery. It feels like an even more poignant memory this year, and my thoughts continue to be with all my friends at Yad Vashem.
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3 Nov 2023
Sending solidarity to friends @wienerlibrary - one of the very best research centres for Holocaust Studies and which deserves all our support.
2 Nov 2023
jewishnews.co.uk/gaza-daubed…
.@metpoliceuk and @CST_UK alerted after graffiti attack outside world's oldest Holocaust studies library and research centre.
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15 Oct 2023
Especially this week there are few places I'd rather be than @HolocaustCentUK. Today we joined with 17 survivors in celebrating 28 years of a wonderful interfaith space for Holocaust education.
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13 Oct 2023
"there should still be room in your heart for a Jewish child whose last moments were filled with unimaginable terror – the same terror his grandparents, and their grandparents, thought they had escaped for ever."
13 Oct 2023
"The angel of death is licking his lips." My piece on the horrors of the last week theguardian.com/commentisfre…
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