French History @IHR: Renée Poznanski on Jews in the Resistance
Date and Place: Monday 21st October 2019 in the IOE, Bedford Way, Room 728 Speaker:Prof Renée Poznanski (Department of Politics and Government at Ben Gurion University of the Negev) Paper Title: Jewish, French and/or Transnational? Jews in the fight against Occupation in WWII France Chair: Prof Julian Jackson. Freshly arrived from Oxford where she […]
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 […]
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 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 History @ IHR: The Maginot Line
Date & Place: Monday 27 February, Institute of Education, Institute of Education, 20 Bedford Way, Bloomsbury, London WC1H 0AL Speaker: Kevin Passmore (Cardiff) Paper Title: The Maginot Line in politics, society and culture Click HERE to listen to an mp3 recording of the paper (right click to save). The Maginot Line has been the subject of a lot of myth-making, […]
Strategy or Sincerity? Studying Letters of French Jews to the Vichy Government
In the second of three new posts in our ongoing series ‘New Directions in French History’, Florence Largillière (Queen Mary) explores the letters French Jews wrote to the Vichy government during the Second World War, asking ‘how should historians look at these letters, since they give a convenient version of the reality, and hide many sides of […]
French Historians under the spotlight: Prof. Margaret Atack
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. May’s subject, Margaret Atack, is Professor of French at the University of Leeds. Prof. Atack is one […]
