Northern Ireland and Brexit

The border between Northern Ireland and the Republic is one of the questions the Brexit process will have to deal with, and it is not easy.

http://www.nationalreview.com/article/454098/irish-border-disputes-brexit-fallout-northern-ireland-remain-customs-union

Powerpoint on Saxon genitive : for Master LEA and indeed anyone else

You will  find a powerpoint here on using the saxon genitive.

www.jcmullen.fr/saxon.pps

Review of "Humor, Entertainment and Popular Culture in World War 1".

Here : http://transatlantica.revues.org/7703

Les Tubes de la Grande Guerre en Grande-Bretagne

Historians sometimes try to write pieces of a more accessible nature, since the readership of history books is rather restricted. Here is a piece I wrote in French explaining ten of the greatest popular song hits of the first world war:

http://cle.ens-lyon.fr/anglais/les-tubes-de-la-grande-guerre-en-angleterre-br-partie-1--202385.kjsp?RH=CDL_ANG000000

The first world war in twelve minute podcasts M1 recherche historiographie

History is also transmitted through fiction, though often controversially, since its accuracy, objectives and representativity can easily be contested (see the example of Downton Abbey). The BBc has produced this fictional radio series about British civilians in the First World War, which you might like to have a listen to:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b047qhc2/episodes/downloads

M1 LEA contrôle terminal

Votre note du semestre est composée de deux élements :le devoir maison que vous trouvez sur ce blog, et le contrôle écrit qui aura lieu en cours le mardi 5 décembre.

Si un étudiant est absent de ce contrôle (avec justification ou pas), il ou elle passera l'examen de deuxième session (je crois que c'est en janvier).

The classroom test will consist of a short translation, and a question about one of the subjects we have been studying. For the essay question, you would normally write three or four pages.

Agrégation, Britain in the 1970s

New book just published, with a chapter by my good self.

Introduction to historiography (Mp3s) : Writing the history of world war one in Britain

You will find here recordings of our seminars, as podcasts.

1a : Sources and questions

1b:  Sources and questions (part two)

2a: Military and diplomatic history 

2b Social history

3a Cultural history

3b The latest trends in WW1 historiography

key words First world war history, podcast, seminar

Slides WW1 Writing history

Here are the slides you saw in the Wednesday seminars, to help you revise. (It may take a little while to download).

Just click here

The First World war on Twitter!

In class I was beginning to talk about the fact that as well as finding out truths about the past, historians are often interested in how to communicate these findings. History books are indispensable, but can be complemented by a wide variety of other means, which may attract a different audience. Here is a First World War twitter account (from a "twitterstorian"). 13 000 subscribers.

 WW1 twitter

M1 LEA Revising multiculturalism

We will be working on multiculturalism in the UK for another couple of weeks (and the exam is on the 5th December, remember).

To help you revise: here are the slides used in class on this issue.

Slides

And here are the lectures 

Lecture one

Lecture two

Lecture three



keywords: podcast, UK, multiculturalism, mp3, lecture

Master 1 LEA Tuesday

On Tuesday we will be working on one of the articles in the booklet I gave out to you, and then on  a listening exercise from a radio interview.

Master 1 LEA / Stephen Lawrence

I spoke in class about the tragic story of Stephen Lawrence, which became a symbol of antiracism in Britain. This 2012 documentary gives some of the background:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZsHwKPE0mjU 

Here is the wikipedia page on the case :
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Stephen_Lawrence

Translating

No class next Wednesday...

The Church of England in the First World War

A little reading matter
https://www.academia.edu/14734113/_PDF_full_text_The_Church_of_England_in_the_First_World_War

Historiography seminar

Watch this video about the first day of the war.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6snYQFcyiyg&t=11s

I will be asking you on Wednesday what you thought of it, and in particular if it corresponded to your image if the work which First World War historians do .

Séminaire historiographie et première guerre

Aujourd'hui mercredi, 15h à 17h, salle M225 (bâtiment de la Brosse)

Master 1 recherche: historiographie et la première guerre

Have a look at this book review in French which takes up a number of questions concerning what historians do:

Book review of Richard Evans

The Labour Party 1980-2015

Although everyone knows a little about Jeremy Corbyn, the leader of the Labour Party, most people know little about his past. This long article is easy to read and very useful

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2017/nov/03/the-wilderness-years-how-labours-left-survived-to-conquer

The Queen is in the papers

Just here

http://www.liberation.fr/planete/2017/11/05/paradise-papers-l-argent-d-elizabeth-ii-en-eaux-troubles_1608077

wednesday morning translation class

Be careful: next Wednesday at 9am the class is in L210, not in the "salle du conseil".

Thème Master 2 recherche

The second year research master students were told to attend the first six sessions of thème for agrégation, and this counts as their module "lecture de textes scientifiques" (don't ask). The marking of this module is done via an exam in January. The standard demanded is not as high as that of the agrégation.

I believe you now have other classes on Wednesday mornings, but any student who does not have, and is willing, is of course welcome to continue attending the translation classes.

If you are M2 students who are intending to prepare the agrégation next year, probably the most important thing this year is to read and listen to a very large amount of English indeed. Also, your closest friends should be jealous of the amount of time you spend with your grammar book.