Merrilyn Thomas

The Author: Merrilyn Thomas received a BA (Hons) in European Studies from the University of East Anglia in 1969 and a Ph.D. in German History from University College London in 2002. She is a Research Fellow in Cold War history at University College London and an occasional teacher of European history at the University of Cambridge. She was an observer of events in the GDR from the 1960s until its demise in 1990 and visited the country on several occasions. She has contributed to volumes on the GDR and Britain.