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 […]
‘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 […]
French Historians under the spotlight: PhD takeover II
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. To tie in with the Annual Postgraduate Study Day, this month’s interview is a Postgraduate takeover! We […]
French Historians under the spotlight: Leora Auslander
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. Leora Auslander is Arthur and Joann Rasmussen Professor of Western Civilization in the College and the Department […]
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. Robert Gildea
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. Continuing with our current spotlight on speakers at the SSFH 2016 conference, this month’s subject is Robert […]
French Historians under the spotlight: Prof. Richard J. Golsan
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. Continuing with our current spotlight on speakers at the forthcoming SSFH conference in July, this month’s subject […]
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 […]
