The Society for the Study of French History
and
 The Institute
of Historical Research, London
Present
The Century of Charles de Gaulle
By Julian Jackson (Queen Mary University of London)
Wednesday 24 November 2010
Pollard and Wolfson Room, 17.00
To be followed by a wine reception.
When the distinguished professor of French History at University
College London, Douglas Johnson (1925-2005), died, it was said that
it had been his life’s work to help the British to understand
the French and the French to understand Britain. That serves as
the mission of this Annual Lecture, sponsored by the Society for
the Study of French History, named in his honour. Its subject is
more than appropriate to the first occasion of the lecture. Professor
Johnson was the first British historian to be able to explain Charles
De Gaulle’s political principles in ways that the British
could understand. November 2010 is also a significant double anniversary:
120 years from his birth and 40 years from his death. Professor
Julian Jackson, who is beginning work on a major new biography of
the General, explains that only now can we begin to evaluate those
principles and his achievement more broadly in the context of the
‘Century of Charles de Gaulle’.
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