Camille Mahé is a PhD student at Sciences Po Paris and the University of Warwick, working on children’s experiences of the post-war period in Western Europe. Here she talks about the archives available at the Mémorial de Caen in Normandy.
PhD placement opportunity at the British Library: First World War French Posters
PhD students are invited to apply for a placement which focuses on the British Library’s collection of French First World War posters. Working with the European and Americas collections curatorial team, this three-month placement offers an exciting opportunity to research, catalogue and promote the collection to the widest possible audience in the context of the …
Douglas Johnson Memorial Lecture 2018 – Malcolm Crook (Keele), How the British & French Learned to Vote
Date & Place: Monday 8 January, at the Institut Français, South Kensington Speakers: Professor Malcolm Crook (Keele) Paper Title: How the British and French Learned to Vote Chair: Professor David Andress (Portsmouth) To listen to a recording of the event, click here (right click to save as MP3) On January 8th, 2018, at the Institut Français, the SSFH and ASMCF held …
Voices of Early Career Researchers: Noëmie Duhaut
Noëmie Duhaut completed her BA, MA and PhD (2017) at University College London. She was a visiting postdoctoral fellow in the Jewish Studies programme at Dartmouth College in the summer 2017 and is currently a Lady Davis Postdoctoral Fellow at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Online Sources for Teaching 18th and 19th Centuries
For those teaching French history in the 18th and 19th centuries there are some very full websites you can explore to gather original sources for this period. (1) The Encyclopédie, or Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers, edited by Diderot and d’Alembert, is a major text capturing the period of the Enlightenment. …
Teaching Sources for Historians of Modern France
Gathering sources to help you teach French history to English-speaking students can be a bit stressful – so why not pull some of our sources and tips together and create some accessible source indexes? Other disciplines have done it – German historians have a rich collection of documents, for instance – and with the increased …
French History @ IHR: Claire Eldridge (Leeds), The Pied-Noir Community and the French State
Date & Place: Monday 15 January, in the Wolfson Room NB02, IHR Basement, North block, Senate House Speakers: Claire Eldridge (Leeds) Paper Title: Forgetting to Remember, Remembering to Forget: The Pied-Noir Community and the French State Chair: Andrew Smith (Chichester) To listen to a recording of the event, click here (right click to save as MP3) The passing of an …
Feature Archive: La Bibliothèque royale de Belgique
Vanessa Wright is a PhD student at the University of Leeds, and works on cross-dressing in medieval French literature. Here she talks about her research at the Bibliothèque royale de Belgique.
French History @ IHR: Julie Kalman (Monash) Orientalism, Jews and Empire in France’s 19th century
Date & Place: Monday 6 November, Wolfson Room, IHR, London Speakers: Julie Kalman (Monash University) Paper Title: Orientalism, Empire, and Jews in France’s Nineteenth Century Chair: Ludivine Broch (Westminster) To listen to a recording of the event, click here (right click to save as MP3) It started with a story. A story involving two Jewish families – the Bacris and …
French History @ IHR: The First World War Roundtable
Date & Place: Monday 6 November, Wolfson Room, IHR, London Speakers: Franziska Heimburger (Paris-Sorbonne), Marjorie Gehrhardt (University of Reading), Alison Fell (University of Leeds) Paper Title: The First World War: Reflections on Scholarship and Commemoration 100 years on. Roundtable discussion Chair: Ludivine Broch (Westminster) To listen to a recording of the event, click here (right click to save as MP3) …
