Professor Pamela Pilbeam

Professor Pamela Pilbeam - Professor Emeritus in French History

Currently sessional lecturer Birkbeck, teaching Graduate certificate in history, ‘Foundations of History. Sources and Debates’; City Literary Institute short course on Paris Commune, Nov 2021 and Jan-March 2022 ‘Dynasties and Democracies in C19 Europe.’ Former president of the Society for the Study of French History, Leverhulme emeritus fellow, Founder of University of Manchester series, Studies in Modern French History.

Publications

The Revolting French c.1787-1889, Routledge, Seminar Studies, 2024

‘The Impact of Alfred Cobban on approaches to 1789’, H-France Salon Volume 12 (2020), Issue 8, #32 2020 George Rudé Society and the Society for French Historical Studies Panel 9 - George Rudé, Alfred Cobban, and Beyond (You tube).

‘Alfred Cobban, his writing and teaching’, in Forum: The Legacy of Alfred Cobban, French History, Volume 34, Issue 4, December 2020, pp.519-530.

Saint-Simonians in Nineteenth-Century France, Palgrave, 2014.

Madame Tussaud and the History of Waxworks, paperback, print on demand Bloomsbury, 2017, 2nd ed. 2006. I was the historical consultant and historical presenter of The Legend of Madame Tussaud, an Arte docu-drama, 2017, seen widely on TV including in France, UK and Australia.

French Socialists before Marx. Workers, Women and the Social Question in France, Acumen & McGill/Queens UP. 2000.

The Constitutional Monarchy in France, 1814-48, Longmans,1999.

Themes in Modern European History, 1780-1830, Routledge, 1995.

Republicanism in C19 France, Macmillan,1995.

The 1830 Revolution in France. Palgrave, e edition 2014.

The Middle Classes in Europe, 1789-1914, Macmillan, 1990.

A large number of articles and chapters in books, and web articles including ‘The Colonization of Algeria: the role of the Saint-Simonians’, French History and Civilization, Papers from the George Rudé Seminar ed. J.Kalman, www.rudepapers, 2015.