by Talking Humanities | Nov 7, 2019 | Being Human festival, Events, Features, History & Classics, Human Rights, Politics & Law, Public Engagement, Republished
Thirty years after the Cold War barrier was removed, Dr João Florêncio, a lecturer at the University of Exeter, and Ben Miller, a writer and researcher, consider the origins of the ‘legend of Berlin’ and how the newly undivided city provided queer folk...
by aseifert | Nov 7, 2014 | Analysis & Comment, History & Classics
By Dina Gusejnova Familiar images from 1989 show people on the Berlin Wall, dancing, holding hands, feet dangling east and west, and laughing. Twenty-five years on, these images remain icons of a fleeting phenomenon: political happiness. It is all too easy to confuse...
by aseifert | Nov 6, 2014 | Analysis & Comment, History & Classics
By Dr Michael Rowe The Berlin Wall fell on 9 November 1989. The event, which has come to symbolise the end of the Cold War, came about when an East German government spokesman miscalculated, and erroneously announced the previously sealed border open. Crowds of...