As a researcher still active in the digital age how does it feel to look back on a thesis that you wrote half a century ago? In what ways was your day-to-day experience of research and writing then so very different from that of today’s postgraduate, and in what ways has nothing changed? What are …
Monthly Archive: August 2023
Aug 07
Father of the Free French Navy: Thierry d’Argenlieu, Gaullist and Carmelite
A family friend, Simone Guyonvarch, lives part of the year in Sutton and part of the year on the Quiberon peninsula. Her father, like many mariners from southern Brittany, served in the Free French Navy during the Second World War. Postwar he stayed in the Navy, serving as a ship’s carpenter and literally sailing around …
Adrian Smith, Emeritus Professor of Modern History, University of Southampton
