Franco-British History Seminar – History Axis

Posted on December 16, 2021

16 December 2021 - 17 h 00 min - 18 h 30 min


  • Thursday 7 October: John-Erik Hansson (Université de Paris) : « Former et réformer la jeunesse : William Godwin et les enjeux de l’écriture de livres pour enfants (1780-1830) »

  • Thursday 14 October: Marine Bellégo (Université de Paris), « L’Empire britannique et les sciences du végétal : le cas du jardin botanique de Calcutta (XIXe siècle) »

  • Thursday 21 October: Anne Verjus (UMR Triangle, ENS Lyon), « James Henry Lawrence (1773-1840), ou quand la pensée aristocratique sert la cause des femmes »
  • Thursday 28 October: Laura Carter (Université de Paris), on her book Histories of Everyday Life. The Making of Popular Social History in Britain, 1918-1979 (Oxford University Press, 2021)
  • Thursday 18 November: Arnaud Page (Sorbonne Université), « Rationaliser la nutrition : une histoire de l’azote, 1840-1914 »
  • Thursday 25 November: Charles-François Mathis (Paris 1 – Panthéon Sorbonne), « Le charbon, un marqueur de civilisation pour l’Angleterre ? »
  • Thursday 2 December: Aude-Marie Lalanne-Berdouticq (EHESS), « Choisir des hommes pour la guerre. La sélection médicale des recrues (France-Grande-Bretagne, 1900-1923) »
  • Thursday 9 December: Claire Gheeraert-Graffeuille (Rouen), “Les Memoirs of the Life of Colonel Hutchinson de Lucy Hutchinson (1620-1681): Quelle histoire de la Révolution anglaise?”
  • Thursday 16 December: Christine Kinealy (Quinnipac University), ‘Maud Gonne. The Real Famine Queen (c.1890-1910)’
  • Thursday 27 January 2022: Matilda Greig (Pompeu Fabra, Barcelone), ‘Dead Men Telling Tales: Napoleonic War Veterans and the Military Memoir Industry, 1808-1914’
  • Thursday 3 February: Robert Poole (Central Lancashire), ‘After Peterloo: the British Risings of 1819-20’
  • Thursday 10 February: Christian Liddy (Durham), ‘Towns and Lords in Late Medieval England and Continental Europe’
  • Thursday 17 February: Florence Sutcliffe-Braithwaite (University College London):  ‘No More Walls. Homelessness in London after 1945’
  • Thursday 24 February: Niall O’Flaherty (King’s College London) : ‘Malthus and the Discovery of Poverty’
  • Thursday 10 March: Andrew Mackillop (Glasgow), ‘Scots in long eighteenth-century London’
  • Thursday 17 March: Thomas C. Jones (Buckingham) : “The Foreign Jews Protection Committee: refugee protection and relief in First World War Britain”
  • Thursday 24 March: Nigel Leask (Glasgow) : “‘As Little Known as… Kamtschatka’: Reflection on the Highland Tour in the Long 18th Century’
  • Thursday 31 March: Hugh McLeod (Birmingham), on his book Le déclin de la chrétienté en Occident. Autour de la crise religieuse des années 1960 (traduit par Elise Trogrlic, Labor et Fides, 2021)
  • Thursday 7 April: Barbara Crosbie (Durham) : ‘The Rising Generations: Age Relations and Cultural Change in Eighteenth-Century England’
  • Thursday 14 April: Chris Manias (Kings College London), ‘The Age of Mammals: Nature, Development and Palaeontology in the long nineteenth century’
  • Thursday 21 April: Emma Griffin (East Anglia), on her book Bread Winner. An Intimate History of the Victorian Economy (Yale University Press, 2020)
  • Thursday 12 May: Laura King (Leeds), ‘The School Case of Poor Harold: Families’ multi-generational remembrance of deceased children in twentieth-century England’

Franco-British History Seminar – partnership

The  History Seminar Franco-Britannique has been organised since 2000 at the University Paris-Sorbonne, now in partnership with the Institute of historical Research, London, and with the following research centres: AGORA (Cergy Pontoise), CREA (Paris Ouest-Nanterre-La Défense), CREW (Paris 3-Sorbonne Nouvelle),  CRULH (Lorraine), LARCA (Université de Paris) and the  Maison française d’Oxford. Every year, the programme conveys the latest insights from foreign and French-based researchers in British history, medieval, modern and contemporary British history. Phd and master degree students as well as all researchers with an interest in British history are welcome.

  • Sessions on Thursdays from 5pm to 7pm.
  • At the Maison de recherché de l’université Paris-Sorbonne (28 rue Serpente, Paris 6e).
  • Room D421 (screens at the entrance confirm location)
  • The year’s programme is on the SFB website HERE
  • Talks are taped and archived on the website of the Institute of historical Research Here.
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