Art is a crucial component of culture and culture is a crucial driver of behavior and cognition. Thus, a key question worthy of investigation is: To What extent does life imitate art? Or conversely, does art imitate life? What is the role of art in: Social Change, Protest and Equality?
Art& Literature
- What role does art and literature play in societal and cultural change?
- In what ways are artistic movements linked to historical events and vice/ versa?
- How can historians use art to inform understanding?
- To what extent is art a faithful source of historical knowledge?
- What is the role of art and literature in change movements?
WW2 Book List
Schindler’s List
All the Light We Cannot See
Man’s Search for Meaning
Thin Red line
Naked and the Dead
The Investigation
HHHH
The Book Thief
The Zookeeper’s Wife
All but my Life: A Memoir
Hiroshima John Hershey
The Second World War- John Keegan
A diary of a young girl
The Hiding Place
Night
The Winged Watchman
Number the Stars- Lois Lowry
Catch-22
Slaughterhouse Five
Empire of the Sun
Unbroken — Good
Irena’s Children
Stalingrad- Antony Beevor
War of the Rats – Also Stalingrad
Code Girls
Flyboys
Flags of our Fathers
Helmet for my Pillow
Eye of the Needle- Ken Follet
Spies of the Balkans