Professor of Contemporary History at the University of Edinburgh. Historian of 20thC France/Europe (especially politics & ideas), intellectual history, Marxism, Hobsbawm. Editor of Contemporary European History.
More about me: https://emilechabal.com/
Emile Chabal
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Can't save Universities tho
While scrolling the Blackwell's website, I found out that my little book on France is available for the almost absurdly cheap price of £6. Anyone who needs a primer on France that is short, sharp and (hopefully!) stimulating should go for it...
blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/pro...
I had some thoughts about Vincent Martigny's edited collection of essays about how to the resist the widespread nostalgia in France for the Trente Glorieuses.
www.tandfonline.com/eprint/7UDYF...
Version française dans @lemonde.fr:
www.lemonde.fr/les-decodeur...
The outsourcing of visa processing to VFS has long been a scandal in plain sight. One of many, sure, but one that brutally intervenes in the lives of "weak" passport holders when they are most vulnerable: asking a foreign state for the right to travel there.
www.politico.eu/article/how-...
Let's be very clear for those in the back of the room: THIS WOULD HAVE HAPPENED ANYWAY AND EVERY EXPERT SAID IT. So there was no need for Labour to do a kneejerk anti-immigration swerve that was strategically dumb and morally reprehensible.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
Of the many analyses to file in the "we told you so" drawer, the one @mcslaven.bsky.social and I wrote for @foreignpolicy.com was pretty clear about the consequences: foreignpolicy.com/2025/11/05/b...
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Emile Chabal, a leading specialist of contemporary France, tells the story of a paradoxical country. From the calamitous defeat by Hitler's armies in 1940 to th
