Robert Gildea

Robert Gildea is Professor of Modern History at the University Oxford. He has spent a lifetime researching French and European history. His previous publications include Barricades and Borders. Europe 1800-1914 (Oxford, 1986, 1997, 2003), The Past in French History (Yale, 1994), France since 1945 (Oxford, 1996, 2002) and Marianne in Chains: In Search of the German Occupation (Macmillan, 2002), published in the USA by Metropolitan/Henry Holt (2003) with the subtitle Daily Life in the Heartland of France under German Occupation, and winner of the 2002 Wolfson History Prize. He has edited Surviving History and Mussolini: Daily Life in Occupied Europe (Berg, 2006) and Writing Contemporary History (Hodder Arnold, 2008). He is currently directing an international project based on interviews with former activists of 1968.