5:00pm-6:00pm on Tuesday 19 March
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Faculty of Divinity, Lecture Theatre 2 University of Cambridge, Sidgwick Site, 25 West Road, CB3 9EF
The Liberation Collection at Cambridge University Library consists of about 3,300 books in French on the Second World War, the Occupation and the Liberation. This talk will examine a selection of its illustrated works (ranging from deluxe fundraising anthologies to commemorative works, clandestine printing and poetry) as well as humorous drawings representing struggles such as restrictions, housing issues, and missing family members, in an ideologically divided country in dire need of reconstruction.
Dr Irene Fabry-Tehranchi was a lecturer in French literature and culture in France and the UK before becoming a librarian. She is now in charge of French and Francophone collections at Cambridge University Library where she has curated an exhibition of Franco-Prussian Caricatures in the autumn of 2020.
Sophie Dubillot is a PhD student (Open University-Cambridge University Library) working on Humour in print in the immediate aftermath of the Second World War in France (1944-1946).
