Rod Kedward And His Legacy

Roundtable evening to celebrate the 80th anniversary of the Liberation of France and launch the June 2024 issue of French History’s tribute to the late Rod Kedward. Join us to collectively remember Rod, from his life as a soixante-huitard, via his ground-breaking works on the French Resistance, his international influence and mentorship, to the Archive of Resistance Testimony. 

Chris Warne (Sussex) is Senior Lecturer in French History at the University of Sussex, and has been at the University since September 1999. He worked previously in the Modern Languages Department at Keele University. After completing PhD research in the field of nineteenth-century French historiography at the University of Birmingham, Chris's research interests moved to the area of contemporary European history, with a particular focus on the evolution of popular, material and everyday cultures since 1945. He is especially interested in the ways that youth and subcultures can be the site for understanding social and cultural change. He also explores the relationship between politics, culture and resistance. 

Daniel Gordon (Edge Hill) is Senior Lecturer in European History at Edge Hill University. He completed his PhD at the University of Sussex and his work has focused on protest and migration in twentieth-century France. His many publications have focused on immigrant workers and other social movements from the 1960s to the 1980s, and have appeared regularly in journals such as Modern and Contemporary France, Vingtième Siècle, Labour History and French History. His book, Immigrants and Intellectuals: May '68 and the Rise of Anti-Racism in France (2012) told the story of immigrants' impact on the New Left, examining their place in French history.

Sian Reynolds (Stirling) is Professor Emerita of French at the University of Stirling. Most of her research has been into women's and gender history, in both France and Scotland, with publications such as Britannica's Typesetters: women compositors in Edwardian Edinburgh (1989); France between the Wars: gender and politics (1996), and the first edition of the Biographical Dictionary of Scottish Women (2005). Having gone back to eighteenth-century France, her current research is into the families of the French revolutionaries.

Martin Evans (Sussex) is Professor Of Modern European History at the University of Sussex. He is a historian of empires whose work focuses on how empires begin, how they rule, how they are resisted, how they end and their complex aftermaths. Some of his latest articles include ‘Towards a new comparative, connected and interdisciplinary history of Paris-London 1962-89: a theoretical intervention’ published in Hommes, Migrations in 2019, and ‘Towards an emotional history of settler decolonisation: De Gaulle, political masculinity and the end of French Algeria 1958-1962’ in Settler Colonial Studies in 2018. 

- this event is free, but booking is required.