An “Unknown” War in Greece? Perceptions and Historiographical Approaches to the First World War in the Wake of the Centenary

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Published: Oct 10, 2020
DOI: https://doi.org/10.12681/historein.24039
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First World War historiography First World War Studies Centenary of the First World War
Elli Lemonidou
University of Patras
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3037-3970
Abstract

This article presents an overview of the main pillars of European historiography of the First World War throughout the years, with a special regard to the impact of the recent commemorative period, while it also discusses the presence of the war in Greek historiography, from the interwar period to the initiatives undertaken on the occasion of the centenary.

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Author Biography
Elli Lemonidou, University of Patras

Elli Lemonidou is Professor of Contemporary History and head of the Department of History and Archaeology of the University of Patras. She has also taught in undergraduate and postgraduate programmes of other universities in Greece and abroad. Her main research interests include the history of the two world wars, the study of controversial and traumatic events of the recent past, the relation between history and memory, as well as issues of public history and historical education. She has participated in numerous conferences, workshops and other scholarly events related to her subject, while she has published the findings of her research in journal articles, conference proceedings and collective volumes in Greece and abroad. She has edited the collective volume entitled 100 ans après: La mémoire de la Première Guerre mondiale, while her latest monographs are History on the big screen: History, cinema and national identities, History and Memory of the First World War in Europe and The First World War (1914–1918): History of a Universal Catastrophe.

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