Holger Nehring

Biography

Holger Nehring is Chair of Contemporary European History at the University of Stirling in Scotland. He studied contemporary history, politics and philosophy at Tuebingen and at then London School of Economics, graduating with an MA, before coming to Oxford to work on his DPhil. Following various stints at Oxford and at Sheffield, he moved to Scotland. Holger is a historian of post-1945 Western Europe, with special interests in the history of social movements, protests and political activism in Britain and West Germany, the history of violence and peace and the history of sub-national diplomacy. He has also started work on Cold War heritage. This work contributed to an exhibition on Cold War Scotland at National Museums Scotland in Edinburgh (2024-2026).