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About Roland Clark
Professor Roland Clark is Chair of Modern European History at the University of Liverpool. He has written Holy Legionary Youth: Fascist Activism in Interwar Romania (Cornell University Press, 2015), Sectarianism and Renewal in 1920s Romania: The Limits of Orthodoxy and Nation-Building (Bloomsbury, 2021), and edited European Fascist Movements: A Sourcebook (2022) as well as numerous journal articles and book chapters. His interests include fascism, lived religion, the Holocaust, gender, and student movements.Roland Clark is a Professor of Modern European History at the University of Liverpool.
NBN Episodes hosted by Roland:
December 26, 2025
People without History are Dust
Queerness remains one of the most stigmatized and overlooked aspects of Holocaust history, often erased due to the lingering homophobia of survivors. …
December 18, 2025
Welfare Work Without Welfare
Welfare Work Without Welfare: Women and Austerity in Interwar Bucharest (De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2025) argues that women activists, wage workers, and h…
October 29, 2025
Thunder Cross
Founded in 1932, the Pērkonkrusts ("Thunder Cross") was the largest and most prominent right-wing political party in Latvia in the early twentieth cen…
October 26, 2025
On Antisemitism
What do we mean when we talk about antisemitism? A thoughtful, vital new intervention from the award-winning historian. For most of history, antisemit…
October 26, 2025
Colonial Terror
Focusing on India between the early nineteenth century and the First World War, Colonial Terror explores the centrality of the torture of Indian bodie…
October 22, 2025
Dossierveillance, Collaboration, and Fear in Society
Exploring the cultural history of surveillance practices of the Securitate, Romania's secret police during its communist period, the book blends biogr…
September 16, 2025
Murder in Marseille
On 9 October 1934, terrorists murdered King Alexander I of Yugoslavia in a Marseille street. The Croatian ultranationalist Ustashe was behind the atta…
March 27, 2025
The Miracles of Mary in Twelfth-Century France
Murder in a cathedral, horrific illnesses and deformities, narrow escapes from injury and death, a vengeful dragon, a wandering eyeball, a bawdy monk …
March 6, 2025
Conditions of Violence
Mass violence comes not only from states, but also from people. By analyzing mass violence as social interaction through survivor accounts and other s…
March 5, 2025
Justice and Restitution in Post-Nazi Romania
On 23rd August 1944, following the collapse of the pro-Nazi dictatorship of Ion Antonescu, Romania changed sides and abandoned the Axis to join the Al…
February 17, 2025
Vacationing in Dictatorships
Vacationing in Dictatorships: International Tourism in Socialist Romania and Franco's Spain (Cornell UP, 2024) examines the political effects of inter…
January 25, 2025
Collared
Dogs are our constant companions: models of loyalty and unconditional love for millions around the world. But these beloved animals are much more than…
January 10, 2025
The Making of Dissidents
Before Hungary’s transition from communism to democracy, local dissidents and like-minded intellectuals, activists, and academics from the West influe…
October 19, 2024
The Bible
A “wonderful…highly comprehensive” (John Barton, author of A History of the Bible) global history of the world’s best-known and most influential book …
October 9, 2024
Jesus and the Making of the Modern Mind, 1380-1520
For his fifteenth-century followers, Jesus was everywhere – from baptism to bloodcults to bowling. This sweeping and unconventional investigation look…
September 19, 2024
Alternative Evangelicals
Today I talked to Iemima Ploscariu about Alternative Evangelicals: Challenging Nationalism in Interwar Romania's Multi-ethnic Borderlands (Brill, 2024…
September 13, 2024
The Untold Journey of the Nazarene Emigration from Yugoslavia to North America
What role does religion play in migration processes? What is the reason behind migration of religious minorities? Is religious affiliation a deciding …
September 4, 2024
Activism Across Borders Since 1870
From the Occupy protests to climate change school strikes and the Black Lives Matter movement, the 21st century has been rife with activism. Although …
July 26, 2024
The Women of 'Little Paris'
Filling a gap in Eastern European fashion studies, this book presents middle-class women consuming fashion in the symbolic 'Little Paris' of interwar …
May 18, 2024
Steamboat Modernity
Through a skillful combination of economic and cultural history, this book describes the impact on Moldavia and Wallachia of steam navigation on the D…
April 17, 2024
Underground
Bruce O'Neill's Underground: Dreams and Degradations in Bucharest (U Pennsylvania Press, 2024) gets to the bottom of the twenty-first-century city, li…
April 10, 2024
Ceausescu
Today I talked to Traian Sandu about his book Ceausescu: Le dictateur ambigu (Perrin, 2023). Born in January 1918, Nicolae Ceauşescu began his appre…
March 11, 2024
Nationalisation of the Sacred
The Eastern Orthodox Churches in post-communist Eastern Europe are embroiled in long-running conflicts over ownership of territory, saints, sites, nat…
January 6, 2024
From Grand Estates to Grand Corruption
Today I talked to Klaus Buchenau about his new book From Grand Estates to Grand Corruption: The Battle Over the Possessions of Prince Albert of Thurn …