University of Oxford History Faculty

Faculty Postholders

Professor Robert Gildea

M.A., D.Phil., F.R.Hist.S., FBA
Professor of Modern History

Research Interests

Robert Gildea's interests are in French and European history in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. He has written on the impact of the German occupation in France and Europe during the Second World War, and is directing a collaborative research project on 1968 in Europe based on the collection and analysis of oral testimony.

Supervision Interests

Nineteenth and twentieth century French history; Second World War; 1968; historical memory and oral history

Selected Publications:

Education in Provincial France, 1800-1914. (Oxford, 1983)
The Past in French history. (New Haven and London, 1994) 418pp.
France, 1870-1914. (London, 1996)
France since 1945. (Oxford, 2002) 280pp.
Barricades and Borders: Europe, 1900-1914. (Oxford, 2003)
Marianne in Chains: In search of the German Occupation, 1940-1945. (London, 2003) 524pp.
'Mediators or time-servers: local officials and notables in the Loire Valley, 1940-1945' in Local Government in occupied Europe (1939-1945). Acts of the international conference at the University of Antwerp, 15-16 November 2002. (Ghent, 2006)
Children of the Revolution: the French, 1799-1914. (London, 2008)
(ed.) Writing Contemporary History . (London, 2008)
'1968 in 2008', History Today. Vol 58/5 (2008) pp. 22-25
'Eternal France: Crisis and National Self-Perception in France, 1870-2005' in Nations and their Histories: Constructions and Representations. (Basingstoke, 2009) pp. 139-156
'Flawed Saviours: the Myths of Hindenburg and Pétain ', European History Quarterly . Vol 39 (2009) pp. 439-464
'Forty years on: French writing on 1968 in 2008', French History. Vol 23 (2009) pp. 108-19
'The Long March of Oral History: Around 1968 in France', Oral History. Vol 38 no.1 (2010) pp. 68-80

Future Publications:

(ed.) Europe's '68: Voices and Networks of Revolt .
'1968:Voices and Vectors' in Cultural and Social History. (2011)

Research Interests and Activities

Modern Britain and Europe