The newly launched Centre for the Advanced Study of French History is holding a Journée d’Etudes on 11 May 2004 to celebrate the centenary of the Entente Cordiale. Papers will focus on Franco-British perceptions over the past 100 years.

Session One: 9.30 am Chair: Dr Frank Tallett, University of Reading

Dr Nicholas Atkin, University of Reading: ‘The Bonaparte of Travel: Thomas Cook and Excursions to France, 1855-1914’

 Fraser Reavell, University of Reading: ‘French Immigration to Britain in the Nineteenth Century’

Session Two: 11.30 am  Chair: Dr Andrew Knapp, University of Reading

Mr Philip Bell, University of Liverpool: ‘Britain, France and the Making of the Entente Cordiale’

Session Three: 2.00 pm Chair: Dr Richard Vinen, King’s College, London

Audrey Bonnery, LSE/Maison Française: ‘The BBC, Franco-British Relations and the Royal Visit to Paris, July 1938’

Richard Carswell, University of Reading: ‘‘‘Welcome to the Browns”: The British Press and the State Visit of President and Madame Lebrun to Britain’

Session Four: 3.30 pm Chair: Lord Williams of Elvel

Bryan Lewis, University of Reading: ‘Adoptive Kinship: A People’s Entente during the Aftermath of the Great War’

David Smith, University of Reading: ‘La Perfide Angleterre: Je Suis Partout and Britain’

Venue: Room 229, Faculty of Humanities, University of Reading