The Sandwich that Sabotaged Civilisation

Myths and Mistakes. How a well known photograph and an infamous lunch break have shaped our memory of the Sarajevo assassination.

Dr Paul Miller is a Marie Curie Fellow at the University of Birmingham (UK) and Associate Professor of History at McDaniel College (US). In this short talk he contests the tension between history and memory and explores how what we think we see shapes what we think about the past.

Date Published: 10 January 2013

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University of Oxford Podcasts

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http://media.podcasts.ox.ac.uk/oucs/WW1_talks/2012_11_23_ww1_Paul.mp4

Contributors: Dr Paul Miller

In Collection(s): Contexts

Keywords: assassination, media, #greatwriters, world war one, First World War, memory

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