Professor Pamela Pilbeam - Professor Emeritus in French History
Former sessional lecturer Birkbeck, teaching Graduate certificate in history, ‘Foundations of History. Sources and Debates’; City Literary Institute short course on Paris Commune, Nov 2021 and Jan-March 2022 ‘Dynasties and Democracies in C19 Europe.’ Former president of the Society for the Study of French History, Leverhulme emeritus fellow, Founder of University of Manchester series, Studies in Modern French History.
Publications
French Early Socialists (Routledge, 2nd Edition), 2025.
The Revolting French c.1787-1889, Routledge, Seminar Studies, 2024
‘The Impact of Alfred Cobban on approaches to 1789’, H-France Salon Volume 12 (2020), Issue 8, #32 2020 George Rudé Society and the Society for French Historical Studies Panel 9 - George Rudé, Alfred Cobban, and Beyond (You tube).
‘Alfred Cobban, his writing and teaching’, in Forum: The Legacy of Alfred Cobban, French History, Volume 34, Issue 4, December 2020, pp.519-530.
Saint-Simonians in Nineteenth-Century France, Palgrave, 2014.
Madame Tussaud and the History of Waxworks, paperback, print on demand Bloomsbury, 2017, 2nd ed. 2006. I was the historical consultant and historical presenter of The Legend of Madame Tussaud, an Arte docu-drama, 2017, seen widely on TV including in France, UK and Australia.
French Socialists before Marx. Workers, Women and the Social Question in France, Acumen & McGill/Queens UP. 2000.
The Constitutional Monarchy in France, 1814-48, Longmans,1999.
Themes in Modern European History, 1780-1830, Routledge, 1995.
Republicanism in C19 France, Macmillan,1995.
The 1830 Revolution in France. Palgrave, e edition 2014.
The Middle Classes in Europe, 1789-1914, Macmillan, 1990.
A large number of articles and chapters in books, and web articles including ‘The Colonization of Algeria: the role of the Saint-Simonians’, French History and Civilization, Papers from the George Rudé Seminar ed. J.Kalman, www.rudepapers, 2015.
Research Students since 1993
Completed - chronological order:
Atkin Nicholas, PhD on Vichy completed c. 1984, then Reading Univ, progressing to professor. Died 2009. 5 books published.
Bloch Jean (pt.1990-3) `Rousseauism and education in eighteenth century France’. PhD awarded 1993. Reader in French RH.
Shafer David (first regist.UCL 1985) `Revolutionary insurgency and the revolutionary tradition c.1830-71’. PhD awarded 1994. Lecturer, University of California.
Bird Stephen (ft.1994-7) `The Politicization of Voltaire’s legacy in C19 France (1830-1900). PhD awarded Sept. 1997. (Holder of RH Teaching Scholarship 1994-7; ORS 1996-7; IHR Research fellowship 1996-7. Also travel grant from Central Research Fund. Manager with MaBell Canada. 1st book, Re-inventing Voltaire: the politics of commemoration in C19 France (OUP 2000)
Lawrence Paul (ft. 1995-8 ) `Immigration and National Identity in France during the 1930s with particular reference to the department of the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence’. BA 3-year research award; travel grant RHS (1996 and 1997); Central Research Fund grant 1998. Since 1998 Research Fellow, lecturer, Open University. Has already published 2 major articles and is working on a book.
Millar Michelle (pt. 1994-2000) `The restoration of Alice Guy Blaché and her importance to the development of the early cinema’. Lindley Studentship 1996. British Institute in Paris research award 1998. Has article published and is developing thesis into a book on Guy and has applied to the Wingate Foundation for research funding.
Simpson Martin (ft.1997-2000 ) `The Last Rites of Midi Legitimism’. 3-year BA award. Central Research Fund grant 1999. Temporary lecturer University of Reading 2000-2001, UWE lecturer and senior lecturer
Takeda Chinatsu (ft.1996-2000 ) ` Madame de Stael’s contribution to liberalism in France’. ORS.
Varley Karine, (ft)Representations of Franco-Prussian War, completed 2004 Vichy's Double Bind: French Collaboration between Hitler and Mussolini during the Second World War,Cambridge 2023 Lecturer, Univ Strathclyde.
Klein Detmar PhD on Alsace completed 2004. Lecturer University Cork
François Pieter on British attitudes to Belgium compl 2006. Deputy Director and Senior Researcher of the Centre for Study of Social Cohesion and the Founding Director of the Seshat: Global History Databank.
Smyth Jon on religion of supreme being. Completed c. 2009. Book 2016 Robespierre and the Festival of the Supreme Being.The search for a republican morality(Manchester, 2016). died 2024.
Appleby Alison on British and French lefts 1930s-45. completed 2013
In addition in 1996-9 David Kerr was a BA post-doc fellow with me and his first book came out with OUP in 2000. He is a lecturer at University College, Dublin.
French Early Socialists (Routledge, 2nd Edition), 2025.
