CRIC Research Project

This film shows the often unexpected outcomes of reconstruction after war , and demonstrates the complexity of international involvement in this process.

CRIC researcher Dr. Ioannis Armakolas discusses the case of the

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CRIC researcher Dr. Ioannis Armakolas discusses post-conflict heritage reconstruction and memorialisation in the city of Tuzla,

Bosnia-Herzegovina. Tuzla had a unique history in the 1990's Bosnian war and its aftermath. It...

CRIC researcher Prof. Karl-Siegbert Rehberg introduces a new study , carried out with CRIC historian, Matthias Neutzner on the emergence of the Frauenkirche Dresden. as a place of German memory and commemoration.

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CRIC historian, Matthias Neutzner looks at the creation of a symbolic site of wartime trauma and loss and the political manipulation of commemoration ceremonies held there. The Heidefriedhof is Dresden's main municipal ce...

This film introduces one of the most emblematic buildings of the Francoist repression. Using the forced labour of the very same prisoners that it was intended to hold, the Carabanchel prison was built in the south of Madri...

In this film, CRIC researcher Dr Paola Filippucci discusses a unique type of commemoration that takes place on the Verdun battlefield, remembering nine villages that were destroyed during the battle of 1916 and were never...

When the Spanish Civil War ended, on the 1^st of April 1939, a General Directorate for Devastated Regions and Reparations was set up to administer the reconstruction of the country. Soon a law was created by which those to...

Nine months into the Spanish Civil War, on 26 April 1937, the Basque town of Gernika was the target of a large aerial bombing campaign carried out on behalf of Generals Emilio Mola and Francisco Franco by the German and It...

'The Cemetery of France'

The title of this film cites the words used by French President Michel Lebrun in 1932 to describe the battlefield of Verdun, site in 1916 of one of the most brutal battles of the Great War.

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This film examines the transformation of Dybbøl battlefield into one of the most important places of memory for the Danish people; a site which came to represent both catastrophic loss and the rebirth of a nation.

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Do memorials matter? If so in what way?

With preparations for the 2014 Great War anniversary well underway it is a particularly relevant time to find out how new generations think the past and present needs to be remembe...

CRIC resarchers Prof. Karl-Siegbert Rehberg and historian, Matthias Neutzner explain how the memory of the bombing of Dresden on the 13th of February 1945 has been affected by political instrumentalisation from the afterma...

The Isted Lion , the "most travelled and most reinterpreted " of Danish monuments .The film looks at the dynamism of cultural heritage through the duties assigned to this huge bronze sculpture on its journey across Europe ...

CRIC researcher Dr Dacia Viejo-Rose from the University of Cambridge discusses various dimensions of the reconstruction of cultural heritage after the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) and their continued presence in Spain tod...

The CRIC Research project has investigated the use of memorials, commemorations and anniversary events to understand the way communities attempt to come to terms with catastrophic loss of life. Significant sites across Eu...

CRIC researcher , Dr. Dzenan Sahovic explains how heritage sites from the socialist era have been transformed in the aftermath of the 1990s war in Bosnia. World War II monuments built to represent the national identity of...