Jörg Arnold is a historian of twentieth-century British and European history. He has published widely on Britain's coalminers and the history of de-industrialisation, urban history, and the history of memory and war. Arnold received his PhD in modern European history from the University of Southampton. He also holds a Staatsexamen degree from Heidelberg University and a BA from Southampton. Before joining the University of Nottingham in October 2013, he taught at the University of Freiburg and the University of Edinburgh. Arnold has held numerous research fellowships, most recently a Marie Curie Fellowship with the Freiburg Centre for Advanced Studies (FRIAS).