Laure Humbert introduces her research on the ‘public face’ of the international Hadfield Spears and discusses it with Charlotte Faucher, BA postdoctoral fellow (University of Manchester) and specialist of the history of Franco-British cultural policies in the twentieth century. Charlotte Faucher has recently organized a conference on ‘New approaches to the history of soft-power’ and is …
CFP: Rethinking the history of Violence, Health and Care in Wartime, c. 1860-2000s.
4 June 2021, HCRI, University of Manchester. We are pleased to invite submissions for an online conference exploring the history of violence against health and care, broadly conceived, in wartime. Understandings of the impacts of attacks on healthcare have changed significantly within the last ten years. This is partly the results of the launch of …
What do the archives of the Friends’ Ambulance Unit (FAU) offer to wider histories of the French external Resistance in the Second World War?
Laure Humbert introduces her research and discusses this question with Jill Geber, Project Archivist at the Friends House Library, London As I embark on this new AHRC-funded project with Bertrand Taithe and Marie-Luce Desgrandchamps, my aim is to rethink the history of the French external Resistance from the perspectives of its missionary dispensaries and hospitals …
Colonial and Transnational Intimacies: Medical Humanitarianism in the French external Resistance 