Date & Place: Monday 20 March, Wolfson Room, IHR, North block, Senate House Speaker: Natalya Vince (Portsmouth) Paper Title: Not (just) a French History: Nation, Memory and Gender in Algeria, 1954-2012 Click HERE to listen to an mp3 recording of the paper (right click to save). Women are not absent from the official narrative of the Algerian War. In fact, as …
Month: March 2017
Voices of Early Career Researchers: Patrick Longson on teaching history in a secondary school
Welcome back to ‘Voices of Early Career Researchers’, a monthly feature on the French History Network blog. Each month we’ll post a short interview with an Early Career Researcher of History, giving you an insight of the different paths that recent PhD holders are following in and outside academia. We invite our interviewees to share …
Feature Archive: The ANOM in Aix-en-Provence
In this month’s Feature Archive, Dr Arthur Asseraf (All Souls, Oxford), who works on foreign news in colonial Algeria in 1881-1940, discusses the Archives Nationales d’Outre-Mer (ANOM) in Aix-en-Provence. The Archives Nationales d’Outre-Mer (ANOM, formerly known as CAOM) is the repository for the archives of the French state’s activities in its overseas possessions. It is an …
French History @ IHR: Transnational Solidarity
Date & Place: Monday 20 February, Pollard Room, IHR, North block, Senate House Speaker: Nicolas Delalande (Sciences Po) Paper Title: Transnational solidarity between French, British, and European workers at the time of the First International (1860s and 1870s) Click HERE to listen to an mp3 recording of the paper (right click to save). What is solidarity made of? This was a …
French Historians under the spotlight: PhD takeover
Welcome to ‘under the spotlight’, a monthly interview series which offers a snapshot from academics’ lives: their passions, interests and reading suggestions – all summarised in less than ten minutes. You can catch up with previous posts here. To tie in with the Annual Postgraduate Study Day, this month’s interview is a Postgraduate takeover! We …
