Paper Trails: Entente Cordiale and Franco-British collections
Ten years after the Liberation of France, relations between the Republic and her British neighbours were sometimes fractious. Yet this was also the 50th anniversary of the Entente Cordiale, a gentleman’s understanding signed between France and Britain in 1904 that tried to put Fashoda-style colonial rivalries in the past and map out a route to […]
French History @ IHR: Itay Lotem, Memories of Colonialism in Britain and France
Date & Place: Monday 14 March, in the Wolfson Room NB02, IHR Basement, North block, Senate House Speakers: Itay Lotem (QMUL) Paper Title: Memories of Colonialism in Britain and France Chair: Rob Priest (RHUL) Click HERE to listen to an mp3 recording of the paper (right click to save). Concepts of national memory are at once seductively simple and extraordinarily complex. […]
