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 French History, giving you an insight of the different paths that ECRs are following after their PhDs in and outside of academia: what do the …
Ethan Katz, ‘Jews, Muslims, Frenchmen: The Promises and Perils of Fraternity’ – Public Lecture 1 May 2018
On 1 May 2018, Ethan Katz will be talking about his latest book, The Burdens of Brotherhood, at a public lecture organised by the Pears Institute for the study of Antisemitism. He will discuss the relations between Jews and Muslims in France throughout the twentieth century, a topic which is very timely in both France and Britain …
Call for Papers No End to the War: Cultures of Violence and Care in the aftermath of the First World War
Call for Papers No End to the War: Cultures of Violence and Care in the aftermath of the First World War Thursday 24-Friday 25 January, 2019, The University of Manchester Organisers: The Centre for the Cultural History of War, The University of Manchester War, Conflict and Society Research Group, Manchester Metropolitan University …
Franco-British conversation about Winston Churchill and Pierre Mendès France, 18 April 18h30
On 18 April, the French Institute will hold a Franco-British conversation about Winston Churchill and Pierre Mendès France in the presence of Tristant Mendès France. This discussion will feature Richard Toye and Christian Destremeau, and is part of the #fabricofcitizenship seminar series. It will be followed by a screening of Darkest Hour (https://www.institut-francais.org.uk/cine-lumiere/whats-on/special-screenings/darkest-hour/). The event starts …
Feature Archive: Archives départementales des Pyrénées-Atlantiques
Talitha Ilacqua is a PhD student in History at King’s College London. Her research focuses on local and national identities in the French Basque country between 1780 and 1860. Here she writes about using the Archives départmentales of the Pyrénées-Atlantiques in Bayonne.
French Historians under the spotlight: Malcolm Crook
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. Malcolm Crook is Emeritus Professor of French History at the University of Keele and a past president …
Online Sources for Teaching Vichy and the Second World War
Vichy – the Second World War – an Occupation. France’s relationship to its past is complicated at the best of times. With Vichy, it’s a syndrome all of its own. Often taught by historians of modern France, here is the beginning of a collection of sources which have been digitised, translated and made accessible to …
Voices of ECRs: Erika Graham-Goering
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 French History, giving you an insight of the different paths that ECRs are following after their PhDs in and outside of academia: what do the …
Feature Archive: The Folger Shakespeare Library
Ryan Lenzmeier is an MA student at North Carolina State University, working on tobacco consumption, taxation, and smuggling in Northern France in the 18th Century. Here he writes about using the Folger Shakespeare Library.
French Historians under the spotlight: PhD takeover II
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 …
