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SUMMARY:Children\, adults and bombs in wartime France: interaction\, unde
 rstanding and agency in oral narratives of the Allied bombing
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DESCRIPTION:Part of the seminar series: ‘Young in Dangerous Times: Childr
 en and Youth in Global History’\n\n\n'Children\, adults and bombs in war
 time France: interaction\, understanding and agency in oral narratives o
 f the Allied bombing'\nDr Lindsey Dodd  (University of Huddersfield)\n\n
 Over a fifth of the Allies' European bombs fell on France between 1940 a
 nd 1945\, killing around 57\,000 civilians. Until recently\, research in
 to the bombing of France has been sparse\, perhaps because French histor
 y remains weighted towards themes more clearly linked to resistance and 
 collaboration. In 2007\, bombing was described as 'the last "black hole"
  of French collective memory of the Second World War'. But by focusing o
 n 'collective memory' we detract from the event and its experience as li
 ved by individuals.\n\nMy research uses oral history to explore the expe
 riences of people who were 'young in dangerous times': children who expe
 rienced the Allied bombing in three towns - Brest\, Lille and Boulogne-B
 illancourt. French children's experiences of war remain understudied: ne
 ither resisters nor collaborators\, children lived for four years in dan
 gerous circumstances in a country occupied\, exploited\, and threatened 
 by military activity.\n\nIn this paper I focus on four areas: child-adul
 t interaction during bombing\, children alone during bombing\, children 
 as children during bombing\, and children-now-adults reflecting on bombi
 ng. I will consider certain methodological problems of studying childhoo
 d in the past\, and on key issues such as children's agency\, parents' r
 ole in mediating danger\, traumatic memory\, and the hierarchisation of 
 victimhood.\n\n\nSEMINAR SERIES FUNDED BY LANGUAGES\, HISTORY\, THE CENT
 RE FOR EAST EUROPEAN AND LANGUAGE-BASED AREA STUDIES (CEELBAS)\, AND THE
  CENTRE FOR CHINESE STUDIES (CCS)
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CLASS:PUBLIC
LOCATION:A101\, Samuel Alexander Building\, Manchester
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