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Members are invited to the Society’s Annual General Meeting, to be followed by a cocktail. Guests are most welcome to attend the AGM, talks and cocktail although, like Franco-British Society members, they are not entitled to vote.
The Franco-British Society book prize-winner 2018 will be announced after the AGM. If you wish to attend the AGM only, please let us know at by email at [email protected]. |
Prof. Marc Mulholland
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Marc Mulholland is a Professor of Modern History. Marc taught, inter alia, for Queen's University Belfast; the Open University; Birkbeck College, London; Bristol University; and Pembroke College, Oxford, before securing a College and University Fellowship attached to St Catherine's College, Oxford University, in 2000. His research interests concern Ireland since the Famine, and the History of Political Thought since the French Revolution. He specialises in the development of international socialism, the history of political thought, Revolution and modern Ireland. Marc is from County Antrim in Ireland, one of nine children. As his father was a forester he grew up in the woods at Portglenone. He lives in Oxford with his partner, Victoria.
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Emmanuel Barthélemy was an enthusiastic participant in the Paris insurrection of 1848
CHRISTOPHEL FINE ART/GETTY IMAGES
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A short talk on The murderer of Warren Street : the true story of a nineteenth-century revolutionary, by Marc Mulholland will be preceded by the Annual General Meeting of the Franco-British Society 2019.
Preface: (extract)
‘ONE CANNOT IMAGINE how entirely different everything is just across the Channel from what it is in France. London, which is only a few hours distant from Paris, might be on the other side of the globe.’ So wrote Francis Wey, a cultivated French art connoisseur who visited London in the early 1850….......
The story
REVOLUTIONARY. CONSPIRATOR. JAIL-BREAKER. FUGITIVE. DUELLIST. RADICAL. AND KILLER.
On 8 December 1854, Emmanuel Barthélemy visited 73 Warren Street in the heart of radical London for the very last time. Within half an hour, two men were dead.
The newspapers of Victorian England were soon in a frenzy. Who was this foreigner come to British shores to slay two upstanding subjects?
But Barthélemy was no ordinary criminal...
Marc Mulholland reveals the true story of one of nineteenth-century London's most notorious murderers and revolutionaries. Following in Barthélemy’s footsteps, he leads us from the barricades of the French capital to the English fireside of Karl Marx, and the dangling noose of London's Newgate prison, shining a light into a dark underworld of conspiracy, rebellion and fatal idealism.
The Murderer of Warren Street is a thrilling portrait of a troubled man in troubled times - full of resonance for our own terrorised age.
For information, The murderer of Warren Street by Marc Mulholland : Hutchinson. 372pp. paperback can be collected at the event if paid to the Franco-British Society in advance. Please let us know by sending an email to [email protected] if you would like us to reserve a copy.
Preface: (extract)
‘ONE CANNOT IMAGINE how entirely different everything is just across the Channel from what it is in France. London, which is only a few hours distant from Paris, might be on the other side of the globe.’ So wrote Francis Wey, a cultivated French art connoisseur who visited London in the early 1850….......
The story
REVOLUTIONARY. CONSPIRATOR. JAIL-BREAKER. FUGITIVE. DUELLIST. RADICAL. AND KILLER.
On 8 December 1854, Emmanuel Barthélemy visited 73 Warren Street in the heart of radical London for the very last time. Within half an hour, two men were dead.
The newspapers of Victorian England were soon in a frenzy. Who was this foreigner come to British shores to slay two upstanding subjects?
But Barthélemy was no ordinary criminal...
Marc Mulholland reveals the true story of one of nineteenth-century London's most notorious murderers and revolutionaries. Following in Barthélemy’s footsteps, he leads us from the barricades of the French capital to the English fireside of Karl Marx, and the dangling noose of London's Newgate prison, shining a light into a dark underworld of conspiracy, rebellion and fatal idealism.
The Murderer of Warren Street is a thrilling portrait of a troubled man in troubled times - full of resonance for our own terrorised age.
For information, The murderer of Warren Street by Marc Mulholland : Hutchinson. 372pp. paperback can be collected at the event if paid to the Franco-British Society in advance. Please let us know by sending an email to [email protected] if you would like us to reserve a copy.