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      PhD, Queen Mary, University of London. Thesis title: CRAV: Regional identity, violence and the challenges of modernisation in the Languedoc (1944-1992). Supervisor: Prof Julian Jackson. Examiners: Prof Robert Gildea (Oxford); Prof Richard Vinen (KCL)

      M.Litt (distinction); M.A. (hons) – History (First Class), University of St Andrews

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        Books:

        Terror and Terroir: The Winegrowers of the Languedoc and Modern France (Manchester University Press, 2016)

        Britain, France and the Decolonization of Africa: Future Imperfect? Edited with C. Jeppesen (UCL Press, 2017)

        Articles in Refereed Journals:

        ‘Eclipse in the Dark Years: Pick-up Flights, Routes of Resistance and the Free French’, European Review of History, 25:2 (2018), 392-414.

        ‘African Dawn: Keïta Fodéba and the Imagining of National Culture in Guinea’, Historical Reflections/Réflexions Historiques, 43:3 (2017), 102-121.

        ‘From the soil we have come, to the soil we shall go and from the soil we want to live’: Language, politics and identity in the Grande Révolte of 1907, Modern & Contemporary France, 23:3 (2015), 307-326 (with J. W. Hawkey, Bristol).

        ‘Je suis socialiste et quinziste’: Rugby, Wine and Socialism in the Aude since 1976′, National Identities, 16:4 (2014), 291-309.

        ‘Of Colonial Futures and an Administrative Alamo: Rethinking the Loi-cadre (1956) in French West Africa’, French History, 28:1 (2014), 92-113.

        Chapters in Edited Volumes:

        ‘Pan-Africanism and Decolonization: Between the Universal and the Particular’ in Reiland Rabaka (ed.), The Routledge Handbook of Pan-Africanism (Routledge, 2020).

        ‘Information After Empire’: British Overseas Representation and Francophone Africa (1957-1967)’ in David Thackeray, Richard Toye, Andrew Thompson (ed.s), Imagining Britain’s economic future, c.1800-1975: Trade, consumerism and global markets, (Palgrave, 2018), 205-230.

        ‘An Uncertain Icon: The Changing Significance of the Croix Occitane in the Midi viticole’, Place and Locality in Modern France, ed. P. Young & P Whalen (London: Bloomsbury, 2014), 181-191.

        ‘Molotovs in the Minervois: Were the Comité Régional d’Action Viticole terrorists, revolutionaries or just cantankerous winegrowers?’, National Identities in France, ed. B. Sudlow (New Jersey: Transaction, 2011), 81-98.

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