French History @IHR: Marisa Linton on Rethinking the Terror
Date & Place: Monday 10th May, in the IOE Bedford Way, Room 784. Speakers: Professor Marisa Linton (Kingston) Paper Title: 230 Years Since the Revolution: Time to Rethink the Terror? To listen to a recording of the event, click here (right click to save as MP3) Professor Marisa Linton offered this paper surveying the legacy of the Revolution […]
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: Robert Gildea, ‘The French Resistance: Myth, Memory and Narrative’
Date & Place: Monday 4 January, in the Wolfson Room NB02, IHR Basement, North block, Senate House Speakers: Robert Gildea (Oxford) Paper Title: ‘The French Resistance: Myth, Memory and Narrative’ Chair: Iain Stewart (UCL) Click HERE to listen to an mp3 recording of the paper (right click to save). Robert Gildea introduced the ideas of his new book to a packed early January […]
French History @ IHR: Hanna Diamond, ‘Paris and its liberation: photography, memory and the Second World War’
Date & Place: Monday 14 December, in the Wolfson Room NB02, IHR Basement, North block, Senate House Speakers: Hanna Diamond (Cardiff) Paper Title: ‘Paris and its liberation: photography, memory and the Second World War’ Chair: Iain Stewart (UCL) Hanna Diamond introduced new research which considered the importance of the visual record of the Liberation. She stressed how the events in […]
French History @ IHR: Julia Nicholls on Revolution
Date & Place: Monday 16 November, in the Wolfson Room NB02, IHR Basement, North block, Senate House Speakers: Julia Nicholls (QMUL) Paper Title: ‘The Revolution is over, long live revolution: history, science and social change in post-Commune revolutionary thought’ Chair: Iain Stewart (QMUL) The long shadow of the French Revolution has often clouded the way we view we have […]
French History @ IHR: Colin Jones on Robespierre
Date & Place: Monday 19 October, in the Athlone Room, Senate House. Joint session between European History 1500-1800 with Modern French Seminar. Speakers: Colin Jones (QMUL) Paper Title: `What did Robespierre really want? Thoughts on 9 Thermidor’ Chair: Julian Swann (Birkbeck) ‘What did Robespierre really want?’ In this question we are faced with the quandary of how exactly to […]
French Historians under the spotlight: Prof. Colin Jones
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. April’s post features Prof. Colin Jones CBE, Professor of History at QMUL who is currently Carl and […]
