Lecturer

Thomas Soden

BA, MA, University of Sheffield; PhD, European University Institute

Dr. Thomas Soden specialises in modern Germany, British and German diplomatic relations and the history of European integration.

RESEARCH

Thomas’ 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.

Research Interests

  • Anglo-German diplomatic relations
  • The history of European integration
  • Cold War history and nuclear weapons
  • New diplomatic history

PUBLICATIONS

Articles and book chapters

‘‘‘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).

(Co-authored 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). https://cadmus.eui.eu/entities/publication/c1e22489-9d5d-5e86-935d-b5ce313f1f1b.

‘Fuelling Europe: the Euratom Supply Agency at 60,’ in ESA, The Euratom Supply Agency at 60 (2021/2023) 1-11.

Book Reviews and freelance articles

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).

Review: Matthew Broad / Richard T. Griffiths: ‘Britain, the Division of Western Europe and the Creation of EFTA, 1955-1963,’ Sehepunkte 23, 5 (2023).

TEACHING AND COURSES TAUGHT

  • HIST2076 Germany and the Cold War
  • HIST2063 Europe and modernity: Cultures and identities, 1890-1940
  • GLAS2118 Revolution and war: Central and Eastern Europe, 1917 to the present