Dr Hanna Diamond
Profile
Dr Hanna Diamond joined the Department in 1993.
She is involved in a number of collaborative projects linked to her interest in France and the Second World War:
- Public response to her book Fleeing Hitler: France 1940 (OUP, 2007) led her to create an interactive website as a forum for people to post their family stories and discuss them. She is interested in how digital technology can enhance the way readers and users engage with history and is currently leading a React Books and Print research project entitled the Living History Book Project.
- She is working on a project dealing with war photography and memory with the Imperial War Museum and the University of Cardiff. She is particularly interested in photographic narratives of the Liberation and the photographers Julia Pirotte, Thérèse Bonney and Lee Miller.
- She is collaborating on a major project on European Resistance and transnationalism with the Universities of Oxford and London.
She is committed to public engagement and ensuring that her work has a wide impact. With Professor Robert Gildea (Oxford), she is leading a team who are preparing a series of events (conference, photographic exhibition, film screenings) to take place in June 2014 in London, Oxford and Bath to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the Liberation in France.
Teaching
She contributes to several units across the department including aspects of French History, European Citizenship and Political Thought. She also lectures on the final year European option on 'Gender and Politics in Europe'.
Publications
She has published widely about France during the Second World War including two books: Women and the Second World War in France 1939-48: Choices and Constraints, Longman, 1999 and Fleeing Hitler: France, 1940, OUP, 2007.
Book/s
Diamond, H., 2007. Fleeing Hitler: France 1940. Oxford, U. K.: Oxford University Press.
Diamond, H. and Kitson, S., 2005. Vichy, resistance, liberation: new perspectives on wartime France. Oxford, U. K.: Berg.
Cento Bull, A., Diamond, H. and Marsh, R., eds., 2000. Feminisms and women's movements in contemporary Europe. Basingstoke: Macmillan.
Diamond, H., 1999. Women and the Second World War in France, 1939-48: choices and constraints. Harlow, U. K.: Longman.
Book Sections
Diamond, H., 2012. Forthcoming. France in 1940: Images of Refugees. In: Kesteloot, C., Martens, S. and Prauser, S., eds. La guerre de 40’: Se battre, subir, se souvenir. Presses Universitaires de Septrentrion.
Bornat, J. and Diamond, H., 2009. Histoire orale et histoire des femmes. La contribution anglo-saxonne. In: Thebaud, F. and Dermenjian, G., eds. Quand les femmes témoignent: histoire orale, histoire des femmes, mémoire des femmes. Paris: Publisud Editeur, pp. 37-60.
Diamond, H. and Gorrara, C., 2004. Occupation Memories: French History and the Aubrac affair in the 1990s. In: Kidd, W. and Murdoch, B. O., eds. The Commemorative Century. Ashgate, 233--244.
Diamond, H. and Gorrara, C., 2003. Facing the past: French wartime memories at the milennium. In: Milner, S. and Parsons, N., eds. Reinventing France State and Society in the Twenty-First Century. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 173-184.
Diamond, H., 2003. The French Revolution: Origins and Beginnings. In: Gorrara, C. and Langford, R., eds. France since the Revolution. Chatham, Kent: Arnold, 13--26.
Diamond, H. and Gorrara, C., 2003. The campaign for parity in the 1990s: women and the French Republic. In: Gorrara, C. and Langford, R., eds. France since the Revolution. Chatham, Kent: , 121--136.
Diamond, H., 1995. Libération, quelle libération? L'expérience des femmes toulousaines. In: Thebaud, F., ed. Résistances et Libérations France 1940-1945. Toulouse: Presses Universitaires du Mirail, pp. 89-109. (Clio. Histoire, femmes et sociétés; 1/1995)
Articles
Diamond, H., 2013. ‘Prisoners of the peace': German prisoners-of-war in rural France 1944-48. European History Quarterly, 43 (3), pp. 442-463.
Diamond, H. and Gorrara, C., 2012. Reframing war: histories and memories of the Second World War in the photography of Julia Pirotte. Modern and Contemporary France, 20 (4), pp. 453-471.
Diamond, H., 2011. Miners, masculinity and the ‘Bataille du Charbon’ in France 1944-48. Modern and Contemporary France, 19 (1), pp. 69-84.
Diamond, H., 2010. Review of 'Behind enemy lines. Gender, passing and the Special Operations Executive in the Second World War'. Womens History Review, 19 (5), pp. 797-798.
Diamond, H., 2008. Representing defeat: photographic images of the French exodus of 1940. Journal of War and Culture Studies, 1 (3), pp. 275-292.
Diamond, H. and Bornat, J., 2007. Women's History and Oral History: discussions and debates. Women's History Review, 16, 19--39.
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.
Diamond, H. and Gorrara, C., 2001. The Aubrac Controversy. History Today, 51 (3), pp. 26-27.
Diamond, H., 2000. A new dawn? French women and the liberation. Women's Studies International Forum, 23 (6), pp. 729-738.
Diamond, H., 2000. The role of the witness and the historian in Contemporary France: the Jean Moulin enigma. Proceedings of the Western Society for French History: Selected Papers of the Annual Meeting
Diamond, H., 1995. Gaining the vote ‐ a liberating experience? Modern and Contemporary France, 3 (2), pp. 129-139.
