John Hiden

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John Hiden

Professor of Modern European History; Coordinator, Baltic Research Unit

Cobden Building, Room 13

tel: 01274-233809; fax: 01274-235550

e-mail:J.Hiden@bradford.ac.uk

Publications

Professor Hiden is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and Co-ordinator of the Baltic Research Unit.

He completed the work revising and enlarging two earlier books, Germany and Europe 1919-1939 and his best selling Weimar Republic. In addition he completed the work for his new book, Republican and Fascist Germany. Themes and Variations on the History of Weimar and the Third Reich (Longman). In 1996 he also published the nine volume edition of documents from the Confidential Print of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office on the Baltic States and Scandinavia between 1919 and 1939. This major edition was jointly edited with Dr. P. Salmon of Newcastle University. With Dr Salmon Professor Hiden also completed a revised and extended version of their joint book, The Baltic Nations and Europe.

His long-standing research interests in Modern Germany and in the Baltic states have been increasingly combined in the past two years or so, through his work on one of the leading figures in the inter-war minorities movement, Paul Schiemann. the latter was also the most significant Baltic German political leader between the wars and editor of an influential newspaper, Rigasche Rundschau. Professor Hiden has now examined Schiemann's private papers in Riga, with funding from the British Academy, as well as the records of his party's meetings and the voluminous political writings which Schiemann published during his life time. In September of 1997 he gave an initial paper to the Association of German Librarians, ‘Uncovering Paul Schiemann’, and is due to give two more papers in 1998, at the University of Cambridge and at the conference of the American Association for Baltic Studies at Bloomington, Indiana. Schiemann's ideas on minorities and on Europe have an astonishing resonance today. In due course John Hiden will be publishing a book on Schiemann and his work. He is also contracted to write a short study of Baltic security issues in the twentieth century. Some of this work has been supported by the British Council in Cologne. The British Council in Riga has also funded a joint research project between the Baltic Research Unit and the University of Latvia, leading to a book jointly edited by John Hiden and Atis Lejins (Riga).

Other papers delivered at international conferences by John Hiden in recent years include ‘Die britische Politik gegenüber den baltischen Staaten in der Zwischenkriegszeit’ (Göttingen, 1995); ‘All Small States Now. Baltic Security Issues’ (Waltham, Mass., June 1996.); ‘Some Current Baltic Security Problems’ (Selwyn College, Cambridge 1996); ‘Baltic Security and Lithuania’ (University of London, Sept. 1996); ‘Regional Security Prospects’ (Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, Nov. 1996); ‘On banks and economic trends in Latvia 1918-1940’ (University of Umeå, Sweden). He took part in the Briefing Seminar for the British Ambassador to Latvia at the FCO in January 1996, talking on ‘Latvia's position in the Baltic states’. Finally, he gave public lectures on 'The Third Reich. Preparing For War’ (Newcastle, 1996); ‘Hitler's Foreign Policy’ (Salford) and ‘Running the Reich’ (London, 1997).

John Hiden's work on the Baltic states was recognised by his invitation to become a member of the Baltische Historische Kommission in Germany and by an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Klaipeda in 1996.

Publications:
Books:

Scandinavia and the Baltic States 1918-1939 British Documents on Foreign Affairs. A 9 volume edition of documents from the Confidential Print Run of Foreign Office documents, jointly edited with P Salmon (University of America Publications, 1997).

Republican and Fascist Germany. Themes and Variations on the History of Weimar and the Third Reich (Longman, May 1996) 270 pp.

The Weimar Republic (2nd enlarged edition, Longman, May 1996) 118 pp.

Contributions to books:

`The Baltic republics. Estonia-Latvia-Lithuania', in The Annual Register. A record of world events. 1997, edited by AJ Day, Longman, 1998.

`The Baltic republics. Estonia-Latvia-Lithuania', in The Annual Register. A record of world events. 1996, edited by AJ Day, Longman, 1997.

`The Baltic republics. Estonia-Latvia-Lithuania', in The Annual Register. A record of world events. 1995, edited by AJ Day, Longman, 1996.

`The Baltic republics. Estonia-Latvia-Lithuania', in The Annual Register. A record of world events. 1994, edited by AJ Day, Longman, 1995.

Recent Articles:

‘Hitler's Foreign Policy’, History Review, Vol 8, No 4, April 1997.

‘Reflections on Current Baltic Security Issues. All Small States Now?’, Tiltai 1, January, 1997.

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