Thomas SODEN
Lecturer
Additional Role
Dr. Thomas Soden specialises in modern Germany, British and German diplomatic relations and the history of European integration.
Thomas’s doctoral research project explores the role of the diplomatic relationship between Britain and West Germany in the British applications for membership of the European Community from 1960-1972. His latest work concerns the German embassy in London as an institutional actor during the 1990s. He has also written about the development of environmental policy and banking in the European Community during the 1970s and 1980s, nuclear energy and European integration, and the history of brewing in pre-industrial England.
EDUCATION
BA, University of Sheffield
MA, University of Sheffield
PhD, European University Institute
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Anglo-German diplomatic relations
history of European integration
Cold War history and nuclear weapons
new diplomatic history
Books
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BOOK AWARDS
COURSES TAUGHT
- HIST2076, Germany and the Cold War
- HIST2063, Europe and Modernity
- GLAS2118, Revolution and War: Central and Eastern Europe, 1917 to the Present
FELLOWSHIPS & GRANTS
EXTERNAL AFFILIATIONS
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
- Book Reviews and Other Articles
- “‘Not only a Fleet in Being’?: Anglo-German diplomatic relations, the 1970-1972 EC Enlargement Negotiations and British EC Membership.” European Integration History 33:2 (2027).
- Review: Elana Passman, The French-German Dynamic in an Age of Conflict, 1925–1963, Diplomatica 8, 2 (2026).
- ‘The Going Through — Gale Beer, Saison’s Lost Yorkshire Cousin,’ Pellicle (September 17, 2025).
- (with Jacopo Cellini), “Investing in the environment: European banks and environmental protection from corporate social responsibility to sustainable development (1970s-1990s),” EUI HEC Working Paper (May 2024).
- “Fuelling Europe: the Euratom Supply Agency at 60,” in ESA, The Euratom Supply Agency at 60 (2021/2023), 1-11.
- Review: Matthew Broad / Richard T. Griffiths: Britain, the Division of Western Europe and the Creation of EFTA, 1955-1963, Sehepunkte 23, 5 (2023).
AWARDS
- William Carr Prize, University of Sheffield, 2018