Professor Bob Moore 

B.A., Ph.D. (Manc)

Professor of 20th Century European History

Netherlands; prisoner of war history; Holocaust

Office Hours: Spring 2012-13 - Mondays 2-3pm and Wednesdays 9-10am

r.moore@sheffield.ac.uk

+44 (0)114 22 22565
 

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Major Publications

Biography

Bob Moore studied at the University of Manchester, graduating in 1976, and subsequently completed a PhD in 1983. Since then, he has held teaching posts at UMIST, North London Polytechnic, Manchester Polytechnic, Cambridgeshire College of Arts and Technology, Bristol Polytechnic and the Manchester Metropolitan University. He joined the University of Sheffield in 1999.

His research is in the field of twentieth century European history and in addition to his post at Sheffield he has held visiting fellowships at the Department of War Studies, Kings College London, the Center for Advanced Holocaust Study at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, the Université Libre de Bruxelles and the Institut d´Etudes Politique (Sciences Po) in Paris. He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and the Dutch Koninklijk Nederlands Historisch Genootschap. He has been a member of the academic advisory board for the Centre for Holocaust and Genocide Studies in Amsterdam and currently has a similar role for the Bijdragen en Mededelingen Betreffende de Geschiedenis der Nederlanden. He was also the co-editor of the Britain and the Netherlands Conference series from 2002 to 2009.

His teaching is primarily on the Holocaust and Twentieth Century European History at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels and he is currently working on a number of comparative European History projects.

Membership of Professional Bodies

• Fellow of the Royal Historical Society
• Vice President, International Committee for the History of the Second World War
• German History Society
• British International Studies Association
• British International History Group
• Nederlands Historisch Genootschap

Research

Current Research

Since publishing a major study of the Nazi persecution of the Jews in the Netherlands in 1997, Bob Moore has edited a collection on civilian resistance to German occupation in World War II and co-written a monograph on Italian prisoners of war in the British Empire during World War II (with Kent Fedorowich, UWE, Bristol). More recently, he has completed other major collaborative projects on decolonisation, published in 2009 and on refugee policy in the 1930s, published in 2010. His latest monograph Survivors - on the rescue of Jews in Europe during World War II - was published by Oxford University Press in 2010. He is currently working on projects associated with the history of the Netherlands and with the repatriation and rehabilitation of prisoners-of-war after World War II.

Research Interests

His research interests include the Holocaust, with specific reference to Western Europe; the history of the Netherlands and its colonies; and prisoners of war in twentieth century conflicts.

Research Supervision
He has successfully supervised doctoral theses on topics related to his areas of academic expertise and welcomes applications from research students wanting to work in these fields.

Current PhD Students
Andrew Chesworth, The Repatriation and Rehabilitation of Britain's Far East Prisoners of War c.1944 - 1950
W Ray Palmer, The Origins of the US War Refugee Board
Henning Pieper

Administrative Roles and Responsibilities

Acting Head of Department (2009-2011)
Departmental Executive Board
Senior Admissions Tutor (2007-2010)
Faculty of Arts Graduate Studies Committee (2005-2007)
Senate (2009-2011)
Faculty Executive Board (2009-2011)

Selected Publications

Books

- Survivors: Jewish Self Help and Rescue in Nazi-Occupied Western Europe (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010
- Refugees from Nazi Germany and the Liberal European States, 1933-1939 (edited with Frank Caestecker) (Providence RI: Berghahn, 2010)
- Catholic Communities in Protestant States, Britain and the Netherlands 1580-1720 (edited with Henk van Nierop, Judith Pollmann and Benjamin Kaplan) (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2009)
- Crises of Empire. Decolonization and Europe´s Imperial States, 1918-1975 (with Martin Thomas and Larry Butler) (London: Hodder/Arnold, 2008) pp.xiii + 457 (ISBN 978 0340 731277)
- Prisoners of War, Prisoners of Peace: Captivity, Homecoming and Memory in World War II, (edited with Barbara Hately-Broad) (Berg: Oxford, 2005)
- Colonial Empires Compared, edited with Henk van Nierop (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2003)
- The British Empire and its Italian Prisoners of War 1940-1947, with Kent Fedorowich (Basingstoke: Palgrave 2002)
- Resistance in Western Europe, (Oxford: Berg, 2000)
- Victims and Survivors: The Nazi Persecution of the Jews in the Netherlands, 1940-1945, (London: Arnold, 1997). Also published as Slachtoffers en Overlevenden: De nazi-vervolging van de Joden in - Nederland, 1940-1945, (Amsterdam: Prometheus, 1998)
- Prisoners of War and their Captors in World War II, Co-edited with Kent Fedorowich (Oxford: Berg Publishers, 1996)
- Refugees from Nazi Germany in the Netherlands, 1933 40, (IISG/Nijhoff:Dordrecht, 1986)

Book Chapters and Articles

- "The Treatment of Prisoners of War in the Western European Theatre of War 1939-1945" in Sibylle Scheipers (ed.) Prisoners in War (Oxford: OUP, 2010) pp.111-126 (ISBN 978 019 957757-6)

- "Le context du sauvetage dans l´Europe de l´Ouest occupée" in Jacques Sémelin, Claire Anedrieu and Sarah Gensburger (eds.) La résistance aux genocides. De la pluralité des actes de sauvetage (Paris: Presses de la Foundation Nationale de Sciences Politiques, 2008) pp.277-290 (ISBN 978 2 7246 1089 5) Published in English as "The Context of Rescue in Nazi-Occupied Western Europe" in: Jacques Semelin, Claire Andrieu and Sarah Gensberger (eds.) Resisting Genocide. The Multiple Forms of Rescue (New York: Hurst, 2010) pp. (ISBN 978 1 84904 059 4)

- "The Netherlands" in Richard Bosworth (ed.) The Oxford Handbook of Fascism (Oxford: O.U.P., 2009) pp.452-468 (ISBN 978 019 929131-1)

- "La controverse ininterrompue au sujet du Conseil juif d´Amsterdam" Revue d´histoire de la Shoah/ Center de Documentation Juive Contemporaine Vol.185 (July-December 2006) pp. 331-353 (ISSN 1281-1505)

- "Unwanted Guests in Troubled Times: German Prisoners of War in the Union of South Africa, 1942-43" Journal of Military History LX (2006) pp.63-90 (ISSN 0026-3931)

- "Italienische Kriegsgefangene in britischem und amerikanischem Gewahrsam 1941 bis 1947. Eine vergleichende Sozialgeschichte" in Günther Bischof, Stefan Karner and Barbara Stelzl-Marx (eds.) Kriegsgefangene des Zweiten Weltkrieges. Gefangennahme, Lagerleben, Rückkehr (Wien/München: R. Oldenbourg, 2005) pp.287-302 (ISBN 3 7029 0537 5)

- "British Perceptions of Italian Prisoners of War 1940-1947", in: Bob Moore and Barbara Hately-Broad (eds.) Prisoners of War, Prisoners of Peace: Captivity, Homecoming and Memory in World War II, (Berg: Oxford, 2005)

- "The Rescue of Jews in Nazi-Occupied Belgium, France and the Netherlands" Australian Journal of Politics and History, L/3 (2004) pp. 385-395.

- "Nazi masters and accommodating Dutch bureaucrats: working towards the Führer in the occupied Netherlands, 1940-1945", in: Anthony McElligott and Tim Kirk (eds.) Working towards the Führer. Essays in honour of Sir Ian Kershaw, (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2003) pp. 186-204.

- "The Rescue of Jews from Nazi Persecution: a Western European Perspective" Journal of Genocide Research V/2 (2003) pp. 293-308.

- ""Goed en fout" or "grijs verleden"? Competing perspectives on the history of the Netherlands under German Occupation, 1940-1945" Dutch Crossing XXVII/2 (2003) pp. 155-168.

- "The Importance of Labor: the Western Allies and their Italian Prisoners of War in World War II" Annali dell'Istituto storico italo-germanico in Trento XXVIII (2002) pp. 529-550.

- "Niederlande: Anpassung - Opposition - Widerstand" in Gerd R Veberschar (Ed.) Handbuch zum Widerstand gegen Nationalsozialismus und Faschismus in Europa 1933/39 bis 1945 (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2011) pp. 111-123 (ISBN 978 3598 117671)

- "Jewish Self-Help and Rescue in the Netherlands during the Holocaust in Comparative Perspective" Tijdschrift voor Geschiedenis Vol. 123/4 (2011) pp. 492-505 (ISSN 0040 7518)