French History @IHR: Arthur Asseraf on Electric News In Colonial Algeria
Date & Place: Monday 4th March, in the IOE Bedford Way, Room 784. Speakers: Dr Arthur Asseraf (Cambridge) Paper Title: Electric News in Colonial Algeria To listen to a recording of the event, click here (right click to save as MP3) The peaceful protests which have swept Algeria formed a compelling backdrop to this fascinating paper by […]
French History @IHR: Akhila Yechuri on the French Borderland in India
Date & Place: Monday 18th February, in the IOE Bedford Way, Room 784. Speakers: Dr Akhila Yechury (St Andrews) Paper Title: Rethinking Imperial Sovereingty: The French Borderland in India 1815-1947 Akhila Yechury offered a rich and engaging insight into the ways in which French India was far from a colonial backwater, but instead a unique lens […]
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 Historians under the spotlight: Laura O’Brien
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. Laura O’Brien is Senior Lecturer in Modern European History at Northumbria University, and Head of Postgraduates for […]
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 […]
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 […]
French Historians under the spotlight: Julian Wright
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. Julian Wright is Professor of History at Northumbria University and co-editor of French History (his co-editor Penny […]
French Historians under the spotlight: Joan Wallach Scott
Welcome to a new academic year of 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. Joan Wallach Scott is professor emerita in the School of Social Science […]
French Historians under the spotlight: John Merriman
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. John Merriman is Charles Seymour Professor of History at Yale. Next month John is one of the […]
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 […]
