Professor Robert Gildea FBA

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Robert Gildea is Professor of Modern History at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of Worcester College, Oxford. He specialises in French and European history in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and is the author of Fighters in the Shadows: A New History of the French Resistance (2015) and Europe’s 1968: Voices of Revolt (2013). A Fellow of the British Academy, he was the co-author for Politeia of The State, National Identity and Schools (with New Direction, 2017).

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‘The State, National Identity and Schools’

By Professor Robert Gildea FBA
December 15, 2017

The State, National Identity and School Dr Sheila Lawlor Claire Legras Dr Paola Mattei Professor Cyrille Michon Professor Robert Gildea Professor Robert Tombs Professor John Marenbon ‘The...

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