Professor Tim Cole
M.A., Ph.D.(Cantab.)
Current positions
Professor of Social History and Director of Brigstow Institute
Department of History (Historical Studies)
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Research interests
Tim has wide ranging interests in social and environmental histories, historical geographies and digital humanities and also works within the creative economy. His core research has focused in the main on Holocaust landscapes - both historical and memory landscapes - writing books on Holocaust representation (Images of the Holocaust/Selling the Holocaust, 1999), the spatiality of ghettorization in Budapest (Holocaust City, 2003), social histories of the Hungarian Holocaust (Traces of the Holocaust, 2011) and the spatiality of survival (Holocaust Landscapes, 2016) as well as co-editing a collection of essays emerging from an interdisciplinary digital humanities project he co-led (Geographies of the Holocaust, 2015). Alongside this research, Tim has also developed interests in environmental history, being a co-editor of a study of military landscapes (Militarised Landscapes, 2010) and now working on a new book that explores social, cultural, landscape and environmental change in post-war Britain (About Britain).
Research supervision
Tim has supervised a wide range of PhD and MPhil topics in Holocaust Studies, environmental and landscape history, public history and contemporary social history. He welcomes proposals in all of these areas.
Positions
University of Bristol positions
Professor of Social History and Director of Brigstow Institute
Department of History (Historical Studies)
Projects and supervisions
Research projects
8009 Bristol and Bath R&D Cluster - AH/S002936/1 - Tim Cole - UWE lead
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
Department of History (Historical Studies)Dates
01/10/2018 to 31/03/2023
Bristol Bath Creative Industries Cluster - UoBristol costing
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
Department of History (Historical Studies)Dates
01/10/2018 to 31/03/2023
SPAN: a participatory history
Principal Investigator
Role
Co-Investigator
Description
This project brings together Barton Hill Settlement (BHS), the University of Bristol and the Feminist Archive South to research the history of Single Parent Action Network (SPAN), a voluntary organisation…Managing organisational unit
Department of History (Historical Studies)Dates
01/01/2019 to 30/06/2021
GW4 N8 AHRC bid
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
Department of History (Historical Studies)Dates
01/11/2016 to 31/12/2018
REACT Alumni Project - MAYFLY
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
School of HumanitiesDates
01/04/2015 to 01/01/2016
Thesis supervisions
The Natures of the Beasts: An Animal History of Bristol Zoo since 1835
Supervisors
The River Danube as a Holocaust Landscape
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Memory Protagonists and the Construction of Holocaust Remembrance in London, 1948–2001
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The ss Great Britain - an Object in Stasis
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Guano and British Victorians
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Gentrification and the Growth and Decline of LGBT Space in New York City
Supervisors
Publications
Selected publications
19/09/2014Geographies of the Holocaust
Geographies of the Holocaust
Crematoria, Barracks, Gateway: Survivors' Return Visits to the Memory Landscapes of Auschwitz
Traces of the Holocaust. Journeying in and out of the Ghettos
Traces of the Holocaust. Journeying in and out of the Ghettos
Militarized Landscapes: From Gettysburg to Salisbury Plain
Militarized Landscapes: From Gettysburg to Salisbury Plain
Holocaust City: The Making of a Jewish Ghetto
Holocaust City: The Making of a Jewish Ghetto
Recent publications
30/01/2021Geographies of Holocaust Rescue
Journal of Historical Geography
Digital Mapping
Doing Spatial History
Introduction
The Holocaust in the Twenty-First Century
Mapping the Holocaust
Cambridge History of the Holocaust
Mind the Gap: Reading across the Holocaust Testimonial Archive
The Holocaust in the 21st Century: Relevance and Challenges in the Digital Age