Hanna Diamond

Hanna Diamond is professor of French History at Cardiff University. She did both her undergraduate degree and PhD at the University of Sussex. She spent several years teaching and researching in France before taking up a lectureship at the University of Bath in 1993. She was appointed to a chair at Cardiff University in 2014. An expert on the social and cultural history of France during the Second World War, she has published widely on the period including, Fleeing Hitler: France 1940 (2007) and Women and the Second World War in France 1939-48 (1999). She regularly advises on media and film production as well as working with museums notably the Musée de la Libération de Paris where she co-curated an exhibition on the French exodus of 1940.