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Talk on “pop nostalgia” at IHR, 16 May

13/05/2016PostsTobias Becker

I’ll be talking popular culture and nostalgia, American Graffiti and Life on Mars at the Sport and Leisure History Seminar at the Institute of Historical Research on Monday, 16 May, 5:15pm.

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Until the 1950s the term nostalgia primarily designated a pathological form of homesickness. Only from the mid-60s onwards did the new definition, a “yearning for the past”, find its ways into the dictionaries. At the same time intellectuals in the United States, Britain and West Germany observed a “nostalgia wave”. This diagnosis serves as point of departure for a research project at the German Historical Institute London on the popularisation of history in the 1970s and 80s. This blog introduces the project, shares ideas and information and charts its progress.


Noch bis in die 1950er Jahre hinein bezeichnete der Begriff Nostalgia in erster Linie eine krankhafte Form des Heimwehs. Erst Mitte der sechziger Jahre fand die “Sehnsucht nach Vergangenheit” Eingang in die Wörterbücher. Zeitgleich meinten Intellektuelle in den USA, Großbritannien und Westdeutschland eine “Nostalgie-Welle” zu beobachten. Diese Diagnose bildet den Ausgangspunktes eines am Deutschen Historischen Institut London angesiedelten Projekts über die Popularisierung von Geschichte in den 1970er und 1980er Jahren. Dieser Blog stellt das Projekt vor und hält über seine Fortschritte auf dem Laufenden.

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