Douglas Johnson Memorial Lecture in French History
Douglas Johnson (1925−2005)
Douglas Johnson was the distinguished professor of French History at University College London, and this annual lecture, co-sponsored by the Association for the Study of Modern and Contemporary France and the Society for the Study of French History (SSFH), was named in his honour.
Now into its fifteenth year, this lecture series is free for all to attend, but registration is essential.
This year, we are delighted to welcome Professor Hanna Diamond (Cardiff University) to give a paper entitled Uncovering Josephine Baker’s War: A Historian’s Journey.
For all the details and recordings of past lectures, as well as to register for this year’s lecture, please visit the SSFH website.
2024: Adventures in the French Archives: Finding Countess Ermengarde of Brittany, c. 1070-1147, Professor Amy Livingstone (Lincoln School of Humanities and Heritage)
2023: À la vie, à la mort: Media Representations of Posthumous Celebrity in France and the UK, Professor Chris Tinker (Heriot-Watt University)
2022: The Saint Bartholomew’s Day Massacres 450 years on, Professor Penny Roberts (University of Warwick)
2021: Napoleon as a European: A Certain Vision of France & Europe, Professor Michael Broers (University of Oxford)
2020: Free French Food: Dining Out With the Free French in Wartime London, Professor Debra Kelly (University of Westminster)
2019: Too Hot to Handle? Flora Tristan (1803-1844) Campaigner for Gender Equality, Professor Máire Cross (Newcastle University)
2018: How the British and French Learned to Vote, Professor Malcolm Crook (Keele University)
2017: Rethinking Robespierre and the French Revolutionary Terror, Professor Colin Jones (Queen Mary, University of London)
2016: Children of the Revolutionaries, Professor Siân Reynolds (University of Stirling)
2015: Myth or Model? The French Revolution in the Great War, Professor John Horne (Trinity College Dublin)
2014: Bombing and Memory: Britain and France, 1940-1945, Professor Andrew Knapp (University of Reading)
2013: Rolland, Gandhi and Madeleine Slade: Spiritual Politics, France and the Wider World, Professor Ruth Harris, (New College, Oxford)
2012: New Wine in Old Bottles: Adapting and Abusing Tradition in French Visual Culture, 1880-1910, Professor Richard Thomson (Edinburgh University)
2010: The Century of Charles de Gaulle, Julian Jackson (Queen Mary, University of London)