Undergraduate module guides

20995 France in the era of De Gaulle 1940-1969: authority and rebellion

Full catalogues for the archives listed below can be searched online at http://archives.hull.ac.uk/.

  • Louie Burrell, artist: Including letters from her daughter Phillippa, living in Paris in summer 1947 [DBU]
  • Jock Haston (1913 - 1986), Trotskyist: Including correspondence, internal bulletins and other papers circulated and received by the Revolutionary Communist Party about France, particularly from the Parti Communiste Internationaliste (French section of Fourth International), 1945-51 [DJH]
  • Justice (1956 - to date), pressure group: Including papers relating to the French Section of the International Commission of Jurists, ‘Libre Justice’, 1960s - 1980s [DJU]
  • National Council for Civil Liberties (1934 - to date), pressure group: Including files relating to human rights in France (Ligue des Droits de l' Homme and Federation Internationale des Droits de l'Homme), general correspondence and subject files on France and its colonies in Algeria and French Indo China (later Vietnam), 1940s - 1960s [DCL]
  • Union of Democratic Control (1914 - 1967), pressure group: Including correspondence, pamphlets, newspapers and other papers re the fall of France in 1940, and French colonies in Algeria and Vietnam (formerly French Indo China), 1940-62 [DDC]
  • Sir Patrick Wall MP (1916 - 1998), Royal Marine and Conservative MP: Including files on France in the late 1960s, including political visits to Paris, and photographs of France during the Normandy landings on D-Day 1944 [DPW]

Archives can be viewed by appointment in the Archives Reading Room, on the first floor of the Brynmor Jones Library, between 9am-1pm and 2pm-5pm Mondays to Thursdays.  Appointments can be made by email, telephone or in person (please see contact details).