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Robert Tombs is a British historian of France and Britain and an emeritus professor of French history at the University of Cambridge. His research has concentrated on nineteenth-century France, political history, Franco-British relations, and the Paris Commune of 1871. His books include "France, 181...

Colin Jones is a British historian whose work focuses on the history of France, especially the social, cultural, and medical dimensions of French society. He has taught at Queen Mary University of London and is the author of The Great Nation: France from Louis XV to Napoleon, a 2002 survey of France...

Theodore Zeldin is a British historian whose writing examines French history through social relationships, emotions, work, family life, and everyday experience. His two-volume France, 1848-1945, published between 1973 and 1977, combined political history with attention to personal and social experie...

Philip Mansel is a British historian whose work examines courts, monarchy, political culture, and the history of France and the Ottoman world. His books include biographies of Louis XIV and Louis XVIII, studies of Paris and the Levant, and works on Constantinople and the Ottoman Empire. His research...

Roger Price is a British historian whose work focuses on nineteenth-century France, particularly the political and social history of the Second Empire and the revolutionary period around 1848. His writing examines how institutions, social groups, and political forces shaped modern French society. He...

James Tissot was a French painter and illustrator renowned for his detailed depictions of fashionable Victorian society. After fleeing to London in 1871 following the Franco-Prussian War, he built a successful career painting the leisured class with academic precision and modern realism. In his late...

Suzanne Aigrain is a French-British astrophysicist and a professor of astrophysics at the University of Oxford. Her research focuses on the detection and characterization of exoplanets, including the study of stellar variability that affects such measurements. She has been a leader in applying Gauss...

Rick Stein's French Odyssey is a culinary travel documentary television series that aired on BBC Two in 2005. The show features British chef Rick Stein traveling through France by canal boat, navigating the country's inland waterways. Along the journey, Stein prepares and samples regional French dis...

The Little Paris Kitchen: Cooking with Rachel Khoo is a culinary television series broadcast on BBC Two in 2012. The show is hosted by Rachel Khoo, a cook and food writer who trained at Le Cordon Bleu in Paris. Filmed inside her small Belleville apartment, the series demonstrates how to prepare clas...

Rick Stein's Secret France is a 2019 BBC Two television series featuring British chef Rick Stein exploring lesser-known regions of French cuisine. Across six episodes, Stein travels through rural France, discovering traditional cooking methods and regional specialties away from tourist centers. The...

The French Film Festival UK is an annual touring film festival founded in 1992 to present French cinema to audiences across the United Kingdom. Its programme combines recent French-language releases with classic films, retrospectives, and special events, and screenings take place in multiple British...