Becky Jinks is a Lecturer in Modern European History at Exeter University. Her first book, Representing Genocide: The Holocaust as Paradigm? (Bloomsbury, 2016) explores the ways in which the Holocaust has influenced the understandings and representation of other genocides. Her current book project, inspired by the research which underlies this talk, is a social history of humanitarians and humanitarianism in the period immediately following the World War I.