Yr Athro Hanna Diamond

Professor of French History

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My work revolves around the social and cultural history of France during the Second World War and the memory of these events. I am interested in people’s everyday life experiences of this period and have published books on women and gender in France during the Second World War as well as on the effects of the defeat of France in 1940. I am currently working on a number of projects relating to the visual cultures of war, above all photography with particular reference to the First and the Second World War.

I use a variety of sources for my research including oral interviews and am interested in issues around digital testimony. I have developed an interactive website (http://www.fleeinghitler.org/) to enable people to post family stories of their experiences of Occupied Europe during the Second World War. I work with a number of non-academic partners in the UK and abroad including radio and television producers, the Imperial War Museum, the SNCF (French Railways) and the Welsh Centre for International Affairs.

Date
Type

2025

Diamond, H. 2025. Josephine Baker’s secret war: The African American star who fought for France and freedom. Yale University Press.

2024

Diamond, H. and Warmsley, C. 2024. Civil war as fratiricidal conflict? Re-examining the case of violence against women in Liberation France. In: Leira-Castinera, F. J. and Sakkas, J. eds. Patterns of Violence Behind the Lines in Europe’s Civil Wars. Palgrave Macmillan

2020

Diamond, H. 2020. 1940: les Parisiens dans l'exode. Paris: Paris Musées.

2019

Diamond, H. 2019. The return of the Republic: crowd photography and the Liberation in Toulouse 1944-45. French Politics, Culture and Society 37(1), pp. 90-116. (10.3167/fpcs.2019.370106)

2017

Diamond, H. 2017. Preserving and displaying everyday life: Digital stories of escape from France during the Second World War. Essays in French Literature and Culture 54, pp. 61-82.

2014

Diamond, H. 2014. France in 1940: images of refugees. In: Martens, S. and Prauser, S. eds. La guerre de 1940 se battre, subir, se souvenir. Presse Universitaires de Septrentrion, pp. 195-209.

2009

Diamond, H. and Bornat, J. 2009. Histoire orale et histoire des femmes. La contribution anglo-saxonne. In: Dermenjian, G. and Thaud, F. eds. Quand les femmes témoignent: histoire orale, histoire des femmes, mémoire des femmes. Paris: Éd. Publisud, pp. 37-60.

2008

Diamond, H. 2008. Representing defeat : Photographic images of the French exodus of 1940. Journal of War and Culture Studies 1(3), pp. 275-292. (10.1386/jwcs.1.3.275_1)

2007

Bornat, J. and Diamond, H. 2007. Women's History and Oral History: developments and debates. Women's History Review 16(1), pp. 19-39. (10.1080/09612020601049652)
Diamond, H. 2007. Fleeing Hitler: France 1940. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.

2006

Diamond, H. 2006. Les mineurs immigres du bassin de Fuveau dans la tourmente des greves des annees 1930 et 1940. Diasporas 9, pp. 195-206.

2005

Diamond, H. and Kitson, S. 2005. Vichy, resistance, liberation: new perspectives on wartime France. Oxford: Bloomsbury Academic.

2004

Diamond, H. and Gorrara, C. J. 2004. Occupation memories: French history and the Aubrac affair in the 1990s. In: Kidd, W. and Murdoch, B. O. eds. Memory and Memorials: The Commemorative Century. Ashgate, pp. 233-244.

2003

Diamond, H. 2003. The campaign for parity in the 1990s: women and the French Republic. In: Gorrara, C. J. and Langford, R. E. eds. France since the Revolution. Routledge, pp. 121-136.
Diamond, H. 2003. The French Revolution: origins and beginnings. In: Gorrara, C. J. and Langford, R. E. eds. France since the Revolution. Routledge, pp. 13-26.
Diamond, H. and Gorrara, C. 2003. Facing the past: French wartime memories at the millennium. In: Milner, S. and Parsons, N. eds. Reinventing France: State and society in the twenty-first century. French politics, society and culture UK: Palgrave Macmillian, pp. 173-185., (10.1057/9781403948182)

2001

Diamond, H. 2001. The Aubrac controversy. History Today 51(3), pp. 26-27.

2000

Diamond, H. 2000. A new dawn? French women and the liberation. Women's Studies International Forum 23(6), pp. 729-738. (10.1016/S0277-5395(00)00145-X)
Diamond, H. 2000. The role of the witness and the historian in contemporary France: the Jean Moulin enigma. In: Rothaus, B. ed. Proceedings of the Western Society for French History: Selected Papers of the Annual Meeting. University Press of Colorado
Cento Bull, A., Diamond, H. and Marsh, R. eds. 2000. Feminisms and women's movement in contemporary Europe. UK: Palgrave MacMillan.

1999

Diamond, H. 1999. Women and the Second World War in France, 1939-48: choices and constraints. Women And Men In History. UK: Longman.

1995

Diamond, H. 1995. Libération, quelle libération? L'expérience des femmes toulousaines. Clio, histoire , femmes, et sociétés Résistances et Libérations. France 1940-45 1, pp. 89-109. (10.4000/clio.517)
Diamond, H. 1995. Gaining the vote ‐ a liberating experience?. Modern and Contemporary France 3(2), pp. 129-139. (10.1080/09639489508456229)

I welcome applications from PhD students interested in all aspects of French Twentieth Century History and Politics particularly in relation to gender and oral history. I have considerable expertise on France and the Second World War and on Gender and Politics in France. I am particularly interested in projects relating to the memory of conflict especially in terms of visual memory (photography) and the commemoration of conflict.

I have supervised three students to completion and am currently supervising a project funded by the SWW AHRC DTP on the experience of British women in Occupied France.

I am currently teaching on the first-year French introductory module: Modern France: War, Culture and Conflict. I offer a second year option module on Women and the Second World War in France. I convene and teach on an MA module Memories of the Second World War in European Autobiographical Writings.

I also have a number of final year and MA dissertation students who are working on topics close to my research interests.

I completed both my undergraduate and postgraduate careers at the University of Sussex. I gained an ESRC-CNRS scholarship to undertake my DPhil research in France. In 1992, I was awarded a History DPhil on “Women and the Second World War in the Toulouse region”.

After several years working in a variety of Parisian higher education institutions (Université de Paris III: La Sorbonne Nouvelle, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Fontenay-aux-Roses, Université de Paris X: Nanterre), I was appointed lecturer at the University of Bath in 1993.

I took up a Chair at Cardiff University in September 2014.

Editorial and External Examination

Co-series editor of the University of Wales Press series: French and Francophone Studies with C. Gorrara (Cardiff University)

Referee for the following journals: American Historical Review, Modern and Contemporary France, Women’s History Review, European History Quarterly, Women’s Studies International Forum, Journal for Memory Studies, French Historical Studies

Reader and reviewer for the following publishers: Berg, Cambridge University Press, Oxford University Press, Routledge, University of Wales Press, University of Manchester Press,

2011-Present: External Examiner for MA in European Studies at UCL

2010-2014: External examiner for MRes degree in Modern Languages at University of Southampton

2006-2009: External examiner for French degree programmes at Cardiff University

External Examiner for PhDs at University of Birmingham (2011) and the University of Southampton (2008).

School Roles

2014: Directory of Postgraduate Research

Deputy Director of Research

School Impact Champion

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April 2015: Honorary Friend of the Archive of Resistance Testimony, The Keep, University of Sussex
October 2014: Consultant for an oral history exhibition on the lives of French Railway workers being held at the Archives Nationales in Paris
September 2014: Consultant on oral history and visual cultures for the Heritage Lottery Funded project on Building Wales for Peace led by the Welsh Centre for International Affairs
October 2013: Chair of the History Panel, South West and Wales, AHRC Doctoral Training Partnership
April 2013: Elected Fellow of the Royal Historical Society

I welcome applications from PhD students interested in all aspects of French Twentieth Century History and Politics particularly in relation to women and gender.

I have extensive expertise on France and the Second World War, and on Gender and Politics in France. I am currently working on projects relating to the memory of conflict and the representation of the Second World War in museums and would be keen to supervise in this area.

I have recently supervised six students to completion and am currently supervising five students on various topics related to Contemporary French History and Gender and Politics.

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