Tim Cole

Tim Cole

Bio

Tim Cole is Professor of Social History and the director of Brigstow Institute, University of Bristol, and chair of the Bristol History Commission. He has wide-ranging interests in social and environmental histories, historical geographies and digital humanities and also works within the creative economy. His core research has focused in the main on Holocaust landscapes – both historical and memory landscapes – writing books on Holocaust representation, ghettorization in Budapest, social histories of the Hungarian Holocaust and the spatiality of survival as well as co-editing a collection of essays emerging from an interdisciplinary digital humanities project he co-led. Alongside this research, he has also developed interests in environmental history, being a co-editor of a study of military landscapes and he is now working on a new book that explores social, cultural, landscape and environmental change in post-war Britain.

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