Institute of Advanced Studies

The Nearly Men: France and its Caesars since Napoleon I

Biographical note: Nicholas Atkin is professor of modern European history at the University of Reading, and currently head of the School of Humanities.

His specialisms lie in modern French history where he has published widely. Books include Church and Schools in Vichy France, 1940-1944 (1991), Petain (1997), The French at War, 1934-1944 (2001), The Forgotten French. Exiles in the British Isles, 1940-1944 (2003) and The Fifth French Republic (2005). With Frank Tallett, he published Priests, Prelates and People. A History of European Catholicism since 1750 (2003). He is currently researching a book on British tourism to France since the mid-nineteenth century.

The lecture series was hosted and sponsored by the Institute of Advanced Studies and History Discipline at UWA and forms part of the Dictators lecture series.

- 8 August 2007