Antonia Perna is a PhD candidate in History at Durham University, who is studying the ways in which children and adolescents participated in the political culture of the French Revolution. She recently undertook a short-term research exchange fellowship at the Newberry Library, Chicago, and the John Rylands Research Institute, Manchester. Here she talks about her research at the Newberry Library.

Claire Eldridge is an Associate Professor in Modern European History at the University of Leeds, whose work focuses on the histories and memories of the different ethno-religious communities that comprised French Algeria. Here she talks about the Centre de Documentation Historique sur l’Algérie in Aix-en-Provence.

James Illingworth is a Teaching Fellow in French at the University of Leicester. He recently completed a PhD at Queen’s University Belfast examining the representation of the body in the works of George Sand. Here he talks about his research at the Bowes Museum in County Durham.