Finnish Conference of History Research 2025

Professor Dan Stone is a historian of modern Europe specializing on Holocaust and Genocide studies. His broad range of research interests cover the fields such as the history of fascism from the perspective of history of ideas; the history and historiography of the Holocaust; the history of genocide; postwar Europe; the history of anthropology, especially the idea of ‘race’; and theory of history. 

Dan Stone has published over 100 scholarly articles and is an author of 20 books, including The , Holocaust: An Unfinished History (Penguin, 2023), Fate Unknown: Tracing the Missing after World War II and the Holocaust (Oxford University Press, 2023), Fascism, Nazism and the Holocaust: Challenging Histories (Routledge, 2021), The Liberation of the Camps: The End of the Holocaust and its Aftermath (Yale University Press, 2015), Goodbye to All That? The Story of Europe since 1945 (Oxford University Press, 2014), Histories of the Holocaust (Oxford University Press, 2010). He is also a co-editor of Cambridge History of the Holocaust, vol.1 (Forthcoming, Cambridge University Press, 2025) and the editor of The Oxford Handbook of Postwar European History (Oxford University Press, 2012).

In addition, Dan Stone is the Director of the Holocaust Research Institute at Royal Holloway and is actively engaged in public history, co-curating exhibitions, writing blogs, speaking at events, and popularizing history by making complex historical events comprehensible to wider audiences.

Margaret Hunt is professor emerita of history at Uppsala University. Recent publications include an essay in the journal Past & Present on fraud and the English navy in the early modern period (2024); a handbook, How to Research Scandinavian Ships and Seamen in the Prize Papers of the British National Archives (2023), and the introduction (co-authored with Alex Shepard) and the chapter on war for Catriona MacLeod, et al. (eds),  The Whole Economy: Work and Gender in Early Modern Europe (2023). Other books include: The 1689 Siege of Bombay:  The East India Company at the Height of Mughal Expansion, co-authored with Philip J. Stern (2017); Women in Eighteenth-century Europe (2010); and The Middling Sort: Commerce, Gender and the Family in England, 1680-1780 (1996).  She has also published essays on racial theories, slavery, sexuality, feminist theory, Islamic law, animals and music history among other topics.