Douglas Johnson

Bookish Delights

Douglas Johnson, historian of France and HT academic board member, explains how a youthful attraction to libraries opened doors for him.

Published March 21 2001

The Red Cross and the Holocaust

Favez, Jean-Claude (ed. and transl. John and Beryl Fletcher)

Published April 30 2000

Exit de Gaulle

Thirty years later, Douglas Johnson reconsiders the circumstances in which de Gaulle relinquished his position as President of France and his mythic legacy in French history.

Published March 31 1999

Le Monde Retrouvé de Louis-François Pinagot, 1798-1876

Alain Corbin

Published August 31 1998

French Historians and the Holocaust

Douglas Johnson on why French historians are still arguing about the Holocaust.

Published September 30 1996

Atolls and Atom Bombs: France's Colonial Design

Simon Adams goes through the household accounts of a Tudor courtier to give a revealing insight into his lifestyle and milieu both at and away from Gloriana's court.

Published December 1 1995

The Fall of the Mighty

Douglas Johnson compares and contrasts the downfalls of Neville Chamberlain and Margaret Thatcher.

Published February 1 1992

De Gaulle: The Rebel 1890-1944

A biography of the French leader by Jean Lacouture

Published August 31 1991

Heroes And Villains: Selected Essays

by R.W. Johnson

Published July 31 1991

Breaking the Ice

Elizabethans in the Arctic

Published March 1 1991

Les Invalides, Paris

Douglas Johnson examines the powerful hold Les Invalides exercises over France's historical mythology.

Published February 1 1991

A failure of national will in a decadent country, outgunned, outmanned and divided by class conflict? Douglas Johnson opens our summer series of Second World War reappraisals by looking at the myths and legacies of the fall of France to Hitler's blitzkrieg fifty years ago this month.

Published May 31 1990

Winds of Change

History Today's special issue on the French Revolution's bicentenary focuses on the new ideas that are illustrating its causes and course. To open, Douglas Johnson considers the arguments about the 'Counter-Revolution' and the Terror exercising French historians of the Revolution in 1989.

Published April 30 1989

Barricades of Yesteryear...

Douglas Johnson reflects on the life and death of General de Gaulle.

Published May 31 1988

A Question of Guilt: Pierre Laval and the Vichy Regime

Scapegoat or quisling extraordinaire? Douglas Johnson probes the motives and actions of Vichy's chief minister to find insularity and gamesmanship his fatal flaws.

Published January 1 1988