Paul Betts

I’m Professor of Modern European History at St. Antony’s College, Oxford.

I’m a historian of modern Europe. I’ve been interested in the interface between cultural and political history over the course of my career. I have a long-standing interest in German cultural history, which has expanded to a broader idea of European cultural history and to thinking about Europe’s changing place in a post-Cold War world.

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Publications

Betts, P. (2020). Ruin and Renewal: Civilizing Europe after World War II. Basic Books.
Betts, P. (2019). 1989 At Thirty: A Recast Legacy. Past & Present, 244(1), 271–305.
Betts, P. (2019). The Intimacy of Revolution: 1989 in Pictures. In J. Evans, P. Betts, & S.-L. Hoffmann (Eds.), The Ethics of Seeing: Photography and Twentieth-Century German History (pp. 250–273). Berghahn Books.
Betts, P. (2010). Manners, Morality and Civilization: Reflections on Postwar German Etiquette Books. In F. Biess, & R. G. Moeller (Eds.), Histories of the Aftermath: The Legacies of the Second World War in Europe (pp. 196–214). Berghahn Books.
Betts, P. (2010). Within Walls: Private Life in the German Democratic Republic. Oxford University Press.
Pence, K., & Betts, P. (Eds.). (2008). Socialist Modern: East German Everyday Culture and Politics. University of Michigan Press.

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Within Walls: Private Life in the German Democratic Republic

Ruin and Renewal: Civilizing Europe After World War II