Dr Mark Allinson (Head of School)
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Email: m.allinson@bris.ac.uk
Telephone: + 44 (0117) 33 18038
Room: G84
Teaching
Dr. Allinson specialises in the modern political history of Germany and Austria. His options programme varies from year to year, and often includes units on the German Democratic Republic (the postwar communist East Germany) and Germany's political history. He also offers a general introduction to German history since 1600 for first year students. In 2009/10 he is involved in the teaching of:
| Unit code: | Unit name: |
| GERM1009 | German Language 1 (Grammar Workshop) |
| GERM32058 | Prague |
| MODLM2041 | Concepts of Europe |
| MODLM2042 | Constructing Identities |
| MODLM2046 | European Society |
Research Interests
Dr Allinson studied German and French at the University of Salford, before moving to University College London where he completed a PhD on the early history of the GDR under the supervision of Professor Mary Fulbrook. This work has subsequently appeared as 'Politics and Popular Opinion in East Germany' 1945-1968 (Manchester University Press). Appointed to the German Department in Bristol in 1994, he has also served as Secretary of the German History Society (1997-2002). His research interests have broadened beyond the GDR to include the modern constitutional history of the German-speaking world and the interwar period in Austria, on which topic he is currently preparing articles for publication.
He is currently working on a project investigating the workings of the GDR in a 'normal' year in the 1970s.
Dr Allinson has recently supervised two doctoral students: Anna Saunders investigated the development of patriotism in young East Germans before and since the unification of Germany in 1990; Leon Quinn completed his PhD thesis on the handling of environmental politics in East Germany by the government and the opposition under the supervision of Dr Allinson. He has also supervised an MPhil dissertation by Jon Higham on the nature of the Freedom Party of Austria, and is currently supervising an MPhil on minority groups in the early GDR.
Major Publications
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Germany and Austria 1814-2000 published 2002 |
Politics and Popular Opinion in East Germany 1945-1968 published 2000 |
Contemporary Germany published 2001 |
Recent Publications
'1977: The Most Normal Year of the GDR?', in Mary Fulbrook and Alf Lüdtke (eds) Power and Society in the GDR, 1961-79, pp.253-75 (Berghahn, 2009)
'Zentrale Wirtschaftsplanung in der DDR - Fakt oder Fiktion?', in Barker, P, Ohse, M-D and Tate, D (Eds.), Views from Abroad - Die DDR aus britischer Perspektive, pp. 93-105 (Bertelsmann, 2007)
'Politics on the streets: popular political culture in the Austrian First Republic', University of Bristol, Rose, 2007.
'Popular opinion', in Patrick Major and Jonathan Osmond (Eds.), The Workers' and Peasants' State. Communism and society in East Germany under Ulbricht 1945-71, pp. 96-111 (Manchester University Press, 2002)