Robert Gildea

2 months ago | citylights.com | Robert Gildea

Dec 1, 2024 | theguardian.com | Robert Gildea

On a bright Sunday morning in occupied Paris, 23 July 1943, a German soldier was standing at the Pont de Solférino, watching the river go by. Suddenly, a young woman on a bicycle approached him, took out a revolver, and shot him twice in the head.

Mar 26, 2024 | bristoluniversitypress.co.uk | Bristol Press |Robert Gildea

Description “History”, suggests Robert Gildea, “is a battlefield.” Questions of power, rights, identity and nationhood always have an ancient and modern historical dimension and countries still go to war over their interpretation of history. Yet accounts of history are just as prone to fabrication as fake news, so how can we tell good history from bad? How can history be critical, learning from the past and righting wrongs, rather than divisive, such as riding roughshod over the rights of others?

Mar 12, 2024 | yalebooks.co.uk | Robert Gildea

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Oct 25, 2023 | lrb.co.uk | Robert Gildea |Ewan Gibbs

Halfway​ between the end of the Second World War and the present, the 1984-85 miners’ strike marks a dividing line in Britain’s recent history. Before the strike, the country was characterised by comparative egalitarianism, the (relative) power and legitimacy of organised labour, and an industrial economy in which state industries played a prominent role.