Spotlight on Keith Rathbone
Welcome to another edition of Historians Under the Spotlight – an occasional interview series which offers a snapshot from academics’ lives: their passions, interests and reading suggestions. You can catch up with previous posts here. This month, our spotlight is being trained on Keith Rathbone (Macquarie University, Sydney) guest editor of the latest French History Virtual Special Issue on the subject […]
Spotlight on Junko Takeda
We’re pleased to announce the next instalment of Historians Under the Spotlight – an occasional interview series which offers a snapshot from academics’ lives: their passions, interests and reading suggestions. You can catch up with previous posts here. Today’s spotlight is shining on Junko Takeda, Professor of History at Syracuse University. In addition to her own fascinating research, […]
Spotlight on Tom Hamilton and David van der Linden
We’re pleased to announce the next instalment of Historians Under the Spotlight – an occasional interview series which offers a snapshot from academics’ lives: their passions, interests and reading suggestions. You can catch up with previous posts here. This time we took advantage of our brave new online world to converse with Tom Hamilton (Durham University) […]
French History @IHR: Roundtable on Richard Carswell – The Fall of France
Date and Place: Monday 7th October 2019 in the IOE, Bedford Way, Room 728 Speakers: Richard Carswell, Chris Millington (Manchester Metropolitan), Emily Hooke (Southampton), Ricchard Vinen (KCL) Paper Title: Roundtable discussion of Richard Carswell’s The Fall of France in the Second World War: History and Memory To listen to a recording of the event, click here (right […]
Full schedule for French History @ the IHR – 2019/2020
We are delighted to announce an exciting programme of seminars for the academic year 2019/2020. As ever, we will do our best to summarise seminars so that people can get a sense of the event and, where speakers are willing, try to record events for release on the website. You can read summaries for previous […]
French History @IHR: Ludivine Bantigny on 1968
Date & Place: Monday 10th December, in the Wolfson Room NB02, IHR Basement, North block, Senate House Speakers: Dr Ludivine Bantigny (Rouen Normandie) Paper Title: ‘1968 in France: General Strike, New Practices, New Hopes’ Chair: Professor Julian Jackson (QMUL) This event was generously supported by L’Ambassade du France. This fascinating paper surveyed recent approaches to 1968, […]
French History @IHR: David Todd, ‘Empire of Taste’
Paper Title: Empire of Taste: French Commodities and Global Power in the Nineteenth Century Speaker: David Todd (KCL) Chair: Dr Simon Jackson (Birmingham) Date: 17 October 2018 Eugene Rimmel’s business card, by Jules Chéret, from the Driehaus Museum For this week’s seminar, Modern French History teamed up with Rethinking Modern Europe to enjoy some […]
French History @IHR: Roundtable on ‘The Vichy Past in France Today: Corruptions of Memory’
Date & Place: Monday 11th June, in the Wolfson Room NB02, IHR Basement, North block, Senate House Speakers: Professor Richard J Golsan (Texas A&M), Dr Joan Tumblety (Southampton), Professor Hugo Frey (University of Chichester) Paper Title: Roundtable on ‘The Vichy Past in France Today: Corruptions of Memory’ Chair: Andrew WM Smith (University of Chichester) To listen to […]
French History @IHR: Stewart McCain (St Mary’s), Language Question Under Napoleon
Date & Place: Monday 30th April, in the Wolfson Room NB02, IHR Basement, North block, Senate House Speakers: Stewart McCain (St Mary’s, Twickenham), Michael Rowe (KCL), Professor David Hopkin (Oxford), Professor Jane Hodson (Sheffield) Paper Title: Roundtable on The Language Question Under Napoleon (Palgrave, 2017) To listen to a recording of the event, click here (right click to save […]
‘On this day’ – 21 May 1942 The Riom Trial
« Source gallica.bnf.fr / Bibliothèque nationale de France » The historical debate between Robert Aron and Robert O. Paxton on Vichy France, continues, by proxy, in current academia. While Aron argued that collaboration was forced on Vichy by the Nazis, Paxton maintains that collaboration was ‘a French proposal, that was ultimately rejected by Hitler’. These holistic […]
