Research & publications

Membership:
History Workshop Anarchist Research Group
Centre international de recherches sur l'anarchisme (Marseille)
Centre international de recherches sur l'anarchisme (Lausanne)
London Socialist Historians Group

Member of editorial committee:
Journal of Contemporary European Studies (formerly Journal of European Area Studies and Journal of Area Studies)

Member of editorial advisory board:
Anarchist Studies

Guest/special editorship:
Franco-German Relations, special issue of Modern & Contemporary France, April 1992.
Trade Unionism and Industrial Relations in Europe in the 1990s, thematic issue of Journal of Area Studies, no.5, 1994.
Revolution(s), thematic issue of Journal of Area Studies, no.13, 1998.
Class, thematic issue of Journal of European Area Studies, no.2, 2001.

Single-authored book:
A History of the French Anarchist Movement, 1917-1945 (Westview, CT: Greenwood Press, 2002).

Edited book:
With A.G. Hargreaves (eds.), Women in Twentieth Century French History and Culture: Papers in Memory of Andrea Cady (Loughborough: European Research Centre, 1993).

Contributions to edited works:
'The other Popular Front: French anarchism and the Front révolutionnaire', in Martin Alexander & Helen Graham (eds.), The French and Spanish Popular Fronts: Comparative Perspectives (Cambridge University Press, 1989), pp.131-44.
'Solidarité internationale antifasciste: Les anarchistes français et la guerre civile d'Espagne' in Jean Sagnes and Sylvie Caucanas (eds.), Les Français et la Guerre d'Espagne (Perpignan: Centre de Recherche sur les Problèmes de la Frontière, Université de Perpignan, 1990), pp.73-88.
'Voline et la Fédération anarchiste française face à la guerre civile d'Espagne', in Sylvain Boulouque (ed.), Itinéraire. Une Vie, Une Pensée: Voline (1995), pp.52-60.
'Resistance and Collaboration: the French Anarchist Movement 1939-1945' in Andreas Graf (ed.), Anarchisten gegen Hitler (Berlin: Lukas Verlag, 2001), pp.29-55.
'Charles Ridel et la revue Révision (1938-1939)', in Berry, D., Bertolo, A., Boulouque, S., Casoar, P., Enckell, M. and Jacquier, C., Présence de Louis Mercier (Lyon: Atelier de création libertaire, Collection commune mémoire, 1999), pp 37-49.

Academic journal papers:
'L'anarchisme français et la révolution espagnole, 1936-1939', in 1886...1936 et quelques autres anniversaires, Bulletin du Centre International de Recherche sur l'Anarchisme (Marseille) no.26/27 (1er semestre 1986), pp.85-91.
'French Anarchists in Spain, 1936-1939', in French History vol.3 no.4 (December 1989), pp.427-65.
'Franco-German Relations', Introduction to Modern and Contemporary France, Special Issue, April 1992, pp 5-6.
'French Responses to German Unification', Modern and Contemporary France, (49), 1992, pp 42-55 (with M. Cornick).
'The Anarchist Press in France Today', Anarchist Studies, 1(1), 1993, pp 39-45.
'Chevènement, Rigout, Krivine, et al: Salade (re)composée, or New Left in the making?', French Politics and Society, 11(3), 1993, pp 12-33.
'Paradigms Lost? Trade Unionism and Industrial Relations in Europe in the 1990s', editorial introduction to thematic issue of Journal of Area Studies, (5), 1994, pp 8-16.
Dossier (edited, annotated & introduced): 'A gauche de la gauche - Towards an alternative left?', Modern and Contemporary France, NS2(1), 1994, pp 123-130.
'Revolution(s)', editorial introduction to thematic issue of Journal of Area Studies no.13, 1998, pp.8-11.
"Fascism or Revolution!' Anarchism and Antifascism in France, 1933-39' in Contemporary European History vol.8, no.1, 1999, pp.51-71.
'Luttes de classement, luttes de classe', editorial introduction to thematic issue of Journal of European Area Studies vol.9, no.2 (November 2001), pp.159-62 (with Jeremy Leaman).

'Le mouvement anarchiste français, 1939-1945: Résistance et collaboration' in Dissidences (Bulletin de liaison des études sur les mouvements révolutionnaires), no.12-13 (October 2002/January 2003), pp.41-51.

Articles/chapters published on the web:
On the Research on Anarchism site:

"Fascism or Revolution!' Anarchism and Antifascism in France, 1933-39.'
'French Anarchist Volunteers in Spain, 1936-1939: Contribution to a Collective Biography of the French Anarchist Movement' [including appendices cut from paper version].

Conference/seminar reports:
Report on a seminar organised by the European Research Centre/Department of European Studies/Association for the Study of Modern and Contemporary France, 7th February 1990, Loughborough University: 'Political Consensus in Britain and France', with Dr Peter Morris and Professor Serge Berstein, in Modern and Contemporary France no.42 (July 1990), pp.53-55.
With H. Diamond, Conference report: 'Workers in France during the Second World War', IHTP/CRHMSS, Paris 22-24 October 1992, Newsletter of the ASM & CF, 2(1), 1994, pp 1-2.

Translations (from French):
Bernard Lepetit, 'For a Limited Interdisciplinarity', Journal of Area Studies, 1(1), September 1992, pp 9-16.
E.M. Lipiansky, 'Reflections on the Notion of the Intercultural', Journal of Area Studies, (2), 1993, pp 7-11.
Samir Amin, 'The Empire of Chaos? Europe, the South and the 'New World Order", Journal of Area Studies, (4), 1994, pp 21-29.
Alain Lattard, 'German Trade Unionism since the Crisis: Gradual Erosion', Journal of Area Studies, (5), 1994, pp 47-62.

Review Articles:
'Anarchist Gangsters? - The Bonnot Gang', Anarchist Studies, 1(2), 1993, pp 162-165.
'Visages d'ouvriers': Jean Maitron & Claude Pennetier (eds), Dictionnaire biographique du mouvement ouvrier français, 1789-1939 (Éditions ouvrières, 1964-1993), 43 vols, Modern & Contemporary France, NS1(3), 1993, pp 327-329.
'Mills, Mines and Workers', Modern and Contemporary France, NS2(1), 1994, pp 55-58.

Book Reviews:
M. Rodriguez (ed.), Le 1er mai (Gallimard/Julliard, 1990), in Modern and Contemporary France no.43 (October 1990), pp.90-91.
Jeremy Jennings, Syndicalism in France: A Study of Ideas (Macmillan in association with St. Antony's College, 1990), in French Studies vol.45, no.2 (April 1991), pp.241-242.
M. Maclean, and J. Howorth, (eds), Europeans on Europe. Transnational Visions of a New Continent (Macmillan, 1992), Journal of Area Studies, 17(1), 1993, pp 190-191.
M. Enckell, (ed), Moi, Clément Duval, bagnard anarchiste, (Les Editions Ouvrières, 1991), Modern & Contemporary France, NS1(4), 1993, pp 453-454.
J.F. Hollifield, and G. Ross, (eds), Searching for the New France, (Routledge, 1991), Modern & Contemporary France, NS1(4), 1993, pp 458-459.
M. Ragon, La voie libertaire (Plon,1991), Modern and Contemporary France, NS1(4), 1993, pp 467-468.
J.-R. Ladmiral and E.M. Lipiansky, La Communication interculturelle, (Colin, 1989), Modern & Contemporary France, NS12(2), 1993, pp 217-218.
R. Aminzade, Ballots and Barricades: Class Formation and Republican Politics in France, 1830-1871 (Princeton University Press, 1993), in Modern & Contemporary France vol.NS4, no.1 (1996), p.106.
M. Verret, Chevilles ouvrières (Editions de l'Atelier, 1995), in Modern & Contemporary France vol.NS4, no.1 (1996), p.123.
K. Vincent, Between Marxism and Anarchism: Benoît Malon and French Reformist Socialism (University of California Press, 1992), in Modern & Contemporary France vol.NS4, no.1 (1996), p.123-4.
Cordillot, M., Pennetier, M. & Risacher, C. (1997), Dictionnaire biographique du mouvement ouvrier français, Tome 44: Biographies nouvelles (1789-1939) (Edns. Ouvrières), in Modern & Contemporary France vol.7, no.1 (February 1998), pp.114-5.
Siân Reynolds (1996), France between the Wars: Gender and Politics (Routledge), in French Studies LIII-2 (1999), p.227.
Gerd-Rainer Horn & Emmanuel Gerard (eds.), Left Catholicism, 1943-1955. Catholics and Society in Western Europe at the Point of Liberation (Leuven University Press, Belgium, 2001) in Labour History Review vol.67, no.2 (August 2002), pp.244-5.

Dictionary contributions:
Six entries (on Sébastien Faure, Jean Grave, Daniel Guérin, Louis Lecoin, Emile Pouget and Ravachol) in David Bell, Douglas Johnson & Peter Morris (eds.), A Biographical Dictionary of French Political Leaders since 1870 (London: Harvester Press for the Association for the Study of Modern and Contemporary France, 1990).
Nineteen entries in The Biographical Dictionary of European Labor Leaders (Westport CT: Greenwood Press, 1996): J. Barberet (1837-1920), P. Besnard (1886-1947), A. Compère-Morel (1872-1941), P. Delesalle (1870-1948), G. Deville (1854-1940), A. Dunois (1878-1945), A. Lagailse, R. Lenoir (1872-1963), J. Longuet (1876-1938), A. Millerand (1859-1943), F. Pelloutier (1867-1901), P.-J. Proudhon (1809-1865), E. Renaudin, M. Sangnier (1873-1950), G. Sorel (1847-1922), J. Tortelier (1854-1925), G. Yvetot (1868-1942), A. Zévaès (1873-1953), J. Zirnheld (1876-1940).

Seminar & conference papers:
Research-in-Progress Seminar Programme, French Division, University of Sussex, May 1983: 'Revolutionary Syndicalism and Anarcho-Syndicalism: Problems of Definition'.
Research-in-Progress Seminar Programme, History Division, University of Sussex, March 1985: 'The Effects of the Russian Revolutions of 1917 on the French Anarchist Movement, 1917-24'.
History Workshop Conference 19, Leeds Polytechnic, November 1985: 'The French Anarchist Movement and the Spanish Revolution, 1936-39'.
International Conference, 'Front Populaire/Frente Popular: Comparative Perspectives on the Popular Front Experiences of France and Spain (1936-1986)', Southampton University, April 1986: 'The other Popular Front: French Anarchism and the Front Révolutionnaire'.
Research-in-Progress Seminar Programme, Department of European Studies, Loughborough University, November 1986: 'The French Anarchist Movement Between the Wars'.
Round table discussion on the implications of German unification, Department of European Studies, Loughborough University, 3 October 1990: presentation on the French political reactions.
European History Seminar, University of East Anglia, 10 May 1991: 'Women, Feminism and the Anarchist Movement in Early 20th Century France'.
History Workshop Conference 25, Ruskin College, Oxford, 9 November 1991: 'Women, Feminism and the Anarchist Movement in the French Third Republic'.
Modern French History Seminar, University of Oxford, 12 February 1992: 'Women, Feminism and the Anarchist Movement in the French Third Republic'.
Research Seminar, Department of European Studies, Loughborough University, October 1993: 'The Crisis of the Left in France Today: Towards a Redefinition of Socialism?'.
'French Anarchism, Antifascism and the Resistance' at colloquium organised by the Research Group on the Resistance at the Free University of Berlin, May 1997.
'Charles Ridel et la revue Révision (1938-39)', Colloquium 'Autour de Charles Ridel-Louis Mercier' organized by the Centre international de recherches sur l'anarchisme (Lausanne), Paris, 8 November 1997.
'Contribution to a Collective Biography of the French Anarchist Movement: French Anarchist Volunteers in Spain, 1936-39', conference on the International Brigades, University of Lausanne, 18-20 December 1997.
'Daniel Guérin's relations with Trotsky and the early trotskyist movement, and his developing critique of classical marxism', London Socialist Historians' Group seminar series on 'New Directions in Labour History', 4 March 2002.
'Social, sexual and ideological boundaries in the life of Daniel Guérin', annual conference of the Association for the Study of Modern & Contemporary France, University of Glamorgan, 29-31 August 2002.
'«Prolétaires de tous les pays, caressez-vous!». Daniel Guérin, the labour movement and homosexuality,' 38th International Conference of Labour and Social History, Linz, 12-14 September 2002.

Research funding:
Nuffield Foundation Social Sciences Small Grant, £1300, 1989.
Wolfson Foundation Small Grant in History (British Academy), £1500, 1991.
British Academy Small Grant, £1466, July 2002.

FORTHCOMING

Journal articles:
'Le mouvement anarchiste français et la 'question féminine' sous la IIIe République' in Revue d'Histoire Moderne et Contemporaine
'La Révolution (française) et nous - Daniel Guérin historien de la révolution et militant révolutionnaire' in Agone (2002?).

Chapters:
''Like a wisp of straw amidst the raging elements.' Daniel Guérin in the Second World War' in Simon Kitson and Hanna Diamond (eds.), Individuals and communities at war. Festschrift in Honour of H. R. Kedward (Berg, 2002?).
'French Anarchist Volunteers in Spain, 1936-1939: Contribution to a Collective Biography of the French Anarchist Movement' in Jean Batou (ed.), Entre Solidarité et Politique du Komintern: les Brigades Internationales (Lausanne?).
'«Prolétaires de tous les pays, caressez-vous!». Daniel Guérin, the labour movement and homosexuality,' in Gabriella Hauch (ed.), Sexuality, the Working Classes and Labour Movements, Proceedings of the 38th International Conference of Labour and Social History, Linz, 12-14 September 2002.

Reviews:
José Peirats, The CNT in the Spanish Revolution (Hastings: the Meltzer Press with the Cañada Blanch Centre for Contemprary Spanish Studies, n.d. [2001]) & Dieter Nelles, Widerstand und internationale Solidarität. Die Internationale Transportarbeiter-Föderation (ITF) im Widerstand gegen den Nationalsozialismus (Essen: Klartext, 2001), in Labour History Review.
Jérémie Berthuin, La CGT-SR et la Révolution espagnole (Paris: Editions CNT, 2000) in IWK (Internationale wissenschaftliche Korrespondenz zur Geschichte der deutschen Arbeiterbewegung).

WORK IN PROGRESS

Single-authored books:
Fire in the Blood. A Personal and Political Biography of Daniel Guérin, 1904-1988.
Anarchism, Syndicalism and the Bolshevik Challenge, 1917-26 (including Vilkens, Six Months in Russia, translated from French, introduced and annotated).

Journal articles:
'Daniel Guérin's relations with Trotsky and the early trotskyist movement, and his developing critique of classical marxism' (possibly for Left History or Anarchist Studies).
'Daniel Guerin's engagement with 'sexology' from the 1950's and his contribution to the theorization of gender and sexuality from a historical materialist perspective' (commissioned for special issue of Historical Materialism on sexuality, ed. Paul Reynolds).

Dictionary entries:
'Daniel Guérin' and 'Georges Fontenis' in Claude Pennetier (ed.), Dictionnaire biographique du mouvement ouvrier français (Paris: Editions ouvrières), Cinquième partie: 1939-1968.

Reviews:
Adam Steinhouse, Workers' Participation in Post-Liberation France (Lanham, Maryland: Lexington Books, 2001) in Political Studies.

Web site:
Class Struggles in France. Labour and the Left from 1789 to the Present, a web-based materials archive and hopefully ultimately an e-journal, funded partly by a £200 grant from the UK Subject Centre for Languages, Linguistics and Area Studies, 2002.