Emile Chabal
@emile-chabal.bsky.social
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/
More about me: https://emilechabal.com/
Just returned from this wonderful workshop we organised as a project team. Such a pleasure to hear amazing young & established researchers speaking about their research. Hooray for academic collaboration!
For more info on our @britishacademy.bsky.social-funded project: hca.ed.ac.uk/history/rese...
For more info on our @britishacademy.bsky.social-funded project: hca.ed.ac.uk/history/rese...
October 29, 2025 at 11:28 AM
Just returned from this wonderful workshop we organised as a project team. Such a pleasure to hear amazing young & established researchers speaking about their research. Hooray for academic collaboration!
For more info on our @britishacademy.bsky.social-funded project: hca.ed.ac.uk/history/rese...
For more info on our @britishacademy.bsky.social-funded project: hca.ed.ac.uk/history/rese...
Even after all these years, holding a real book you've written never, ever gets old. Especially if it's your first book in French. Feeling très emu...
PS. The book is coming out in a few weeks - order from Amazon or anywhere else you get your Francophone books! www.amazon.fr/paradoxe-fra...
PS. The book is coming out in a few weeks - order from Amazon or anywhere else you get your Francophone books! www.amazon.fr/paradoxe-fra...
August 26, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Even after all these years, holding a real book you've written never, ever gets old. Especially if it's your first book in French. Feeling très emu...
PS. The book is coming out in a few weeks - order from Amazon or anywhere else you get your Francophone books! www.amazon.fr/paradoxe-fra...
PS. The book is coming out in a few weeks - order from Amazon or anywhere else you get your Francophone books! www.amazon.fr/paradoxe-fra...
Excerpt from an article Eric Hobsbawm wrote in 'New Society' upon his return from a stint as visiting professor at Birzeit University in the West Bank in 1983. Some of the anecdotes he recounted in the piece came directly from his rough field notes.
June 3, 2025 at 10:57 AM
Excerpt from an article Eric Hobsbawm wrote in 'New Society' upon his return from a stint as visiting professor at Birzeit University in the West Bank in 1983. Some of the anecdotes he recounted in the piece came directly from his rough field notes.
Breathtaking: "I always asked myself why people stayed silent during the Second World War as the Jews were being exterminated. I know the answer now looking at Israel, looking at us: because we want to continue living our lives as before and it's too hard to look and speak".
May 30, 2025 at 11:30 AM
Breathtaking: "I always asked myself why people stayed silent during the Second World War as the Jews were being exterminated. I know the answer now looking at Israel, looking at us: because we want to continue living our lives as before and it's too hard to look and speak".
Yes, yes! Finally some French off-the-wall craziness to distract me from what's happening on the other side of the Atlantic! Anyone fancy chatting about islamo-gaullisme..?
March 20, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Yes, yes! Finally some French off-the-wall craziness to distract me from what's happening on the other side of the Atlantic! Anyone fancy chatting about islamo-gaullisme..?
Hard to describe my sheer excitement at the news that my first book in French will appear in the autumn! It's a revised translation of my introduction to contemporary French history for Polity, which came out in 2020. Tell your French friends! Link: www.markushaller.com/d/Chabal-dos...
February 12, 2025 at 11:59 AM
Hard to describe my sheer excitement at the news that my first book in French will appear in the autumn! It's a revised translation of my introduction to contemporary French history for Polity, which came out in 2020. Tell your French friends! Link: www.markushaller.com/d/Chabal-dos...
"BFM TV Brainstorming Future French Prime Ministers" aka "Everything That's Wrong With French Politics, episode 1".
I mean, look at them, really. Is that the best we can do?
I mean, look at them, really. Is that the best we can do?
December 4, 2024 at 12:48 PM
"BFM TV Brainstorming Future French Prime Ministers" aka "Everything That's Wrong With French Politics, episode 1".
I mean, look at them, really. Is that the best we can do?
I mean, look at them, really. Is that the best we can do?
Since I'm new here, can I re-up a project of which I am v proud? It's the complete Eric Hobsbawm Bibliography - a fully searchable database of all his published & unpublished works + a set of curated thematic lists to introduce select topics. It was a labour of love. Link: hobsbawm.shca.ed.ac.uk
November 15, 2024 at 11:29 AM
Since I'm new here, can I re-up a project of which I am v proud? It's the complete Eric Hobsbawm Bibliography - a fully searchable database of all his published & unpublished works + a set of curated thematic lists to introduce select topics. It was a labour of love. Link: hobsbawm.shca.ed.ac.uk