Observing the First World War, London, 3 Nov. 2015
Franco-British perspectives on the History & Memory of the Great War 3 November 2015 *** Organised by the Institut Français du Royaume-Uni in collaboration with British and French Universities Organising committee: Ludivine Broch (Westminster), Alison Carrol (Brunel), James Connolly (Manchester), Emmanuelle Cronier (Université de Picardie), Pierre Purseigle (Warwick) and Catherine Robert (IFRU) *** Welcome address by Catherine […]
Rebuilding European Lives. 1914-1939
Rebuilding European Lives. The reconstitution of urban communities in interwar France and Belgium (1914-1939). Paper presented at the “Recreating historical cities after WWI” Conference, Kalisz (Poland), 16-17 April 2015 In July 1998, in Noyon, a medium-sized town in northern France, construction workers pulled down the decayed community hall and chopped down the acacias which had […]
