See below for the Conference Programme. Further details and registration forms are available from the Conference Secretary, Institute of Historical Research, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU. Email: achishol@sas.ac.uk or d.birch@sas.ac.uk

Conference Programme:

Wednesday 8 September 1999

9.50	Professor David Cannadine, Introduction and Welcome

Histoire Médiévale

10.00-11.30	Professor Philippe Contamine, `Nobility and Gentry
                in the Late Middle Ages'

                Commentators:Dr Maurice Keen (Balliol College, Oxford)
		Professor Christopher Given-Wilson (St Andrews)
		
11.30-1.00      Dr Frederique Lachaud, `The Royal Court in England 
                in the 12th and 13th Centuries'

                Commentators:	Professor John Gillingham (LSE)
 	        Dr Malcolm Vale (St John's College, Oxford)
								
1.00-2.30	Lunch


Histoire Moderne

			
2.30- 4.00	Professor Jean-Pierre Poussou, `French Views of 
                British Rural Life in the Early Modern Period'

		Commentators:	 To be arranged
			
4.00- 4.30	Tea

4.30- 6.00	Professor Viviane Barrie, `The Church of England 
                Clergy in the late 18th Century'

		Commentators:	Professor William Doyle (Bristol)
		Dr Jeremy Gregory (Northumbria at Newcastle) 

Thursday 9 September 1999



9.00-10.30	Dr Charles Giry-Deloison, `English Diplomacy in 
                the Tudor and Early Stuart Period'

		Commentators:	Dr Susan Doran (St Mary's, 
                Strawberry Hill) Dr David Potter (Kent)			


10.30-12.00	Dr François-Joseph Ruggiu, `French Research in Early
                Modern English Urban History'

		Commentators:	Dr Peter Borsay (Lampeter)
				Dr Jonathan Barry (Exeter)


12.00- 1.30	Dr Edmond Dziembowski, `French Views of Britain in the
                18th Century'

		Commentator:	Professor Jeremy Black (Exeter)
						
			
1.30- 2.30 	Lunch


Histoire Contemporaine

			
2.30- 4.00	Dr Philippe Chassaigne, `Towns and Violence in                  
                Victorian England'

		Commentators:	Professsor Clive Emsley (Open)
				Dr Vic Gatrell (Gonville & Caius
                                College, Cambridge)

4.00- 4.30	Tea


4.30- 6.00	Professor François-Charles Mougel, `Elites and
                                       Establishment since 1945'

		Commentators:	Professor Kathy Burk (UCL)
				Professor Bill Rubinstein (Aberystwyth)
			
                                Friday 10 September 1999


9.00-10.30	Dr Isabelle Lescent-Giles, `New Views of British
                                                  Entrepreneurs'

		Commentators:	To be arranged



10.30-12.00	Dr Sylvie Lacroix, `Sir Joseph Banks and Research in
                 Science'
		
		Commentators: 	To be arranged

				
12.00-2.00	Lunch


2.00- 3.30	Professor François Bedarida, `The Image of Winston
                Churchill in France, 1899-1999'

		Commentators:	Dr Paul Addison (Edinburgh)
				Professor David Cannadine (Institute of
                                 Historical Research)
						

3.30- 5.00	Professor Jacques Leruez, `French Views on Thatcherism
                and Blairism'

		Commentators:	Mr Peter Riddell (The Times)
				Mr Hugo Young (The Guardian)
						

5.00- 5.45	Professor François Crouzet & Professor Patrick O'Brien,
                Conclusions