School of Humanities / Sgoil nan Daonnachdan

Dr Maud Bracke

Dr Maud Bracke
  • Lecturer (History)

telephone: 01413305908
email: Maud.Bracke@glasgow.ac.uk


  • 20th-Century social, political and cultural history of Europe
  • Women's movements; 1970s feminism
  • '1968', specifically in Italy, France and Czechoslovakia
  • West European Communism during the Cold War
  • History, memory and film
  • Social and political movements
  • Gender and class
  • Comparative studies; transnationalism
Jump to: 2014 | 2013 | 2012 | 2011 | 2009 | 2008 | 2007 | 2003 | 2002 | 1998
Number of items: 24.

2014

Bracke, M., and Mark, J. [guest editors] (2014) The limits of transnationalism (special issue). Journal of Contemporary History . ISSN 0022-0094 (In Press)

2013

Bracke, M.A. (2013) 1968. In: Smith, S. (ed.) The Oxford Handbook of the History of Communism. Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK. (In Press)

Bracke, M.A. (2013) Between the transnational and the local: mapping the trajectories and contexts of the Wages for Housework campaign in 1970s Italian feminism. Women's History Review . ISSN 0961-2025 (doi:10.1080/09612025.2012.751771 )

2012

Bracke, M. (2012) One-dimensional conflict? Recent scholarship on 1968 and the limitations of the generation concept. Journal of Contemporary History, 47 . pp. 638-646. ISSN 0022-0094 (doi:10.1177/0022009412441755)

Bracke, M. (2012) Building a 'counter-community of emotions': feminist encounters and socio-cultural difference in 1970s Turin. Modern Italy, 17 (2). pp. 223-236. ISSN 1353-2944 (doi:10.1080/13532944.2012.665283)

2011

Bracke, M.A. (2011) From politics to nostalgia: the transformation of war memories in France during the 1960-1970s. European History Quarterly, 41 (1). pp. 5-24. ISSN 0265-6914 (doi:10.1177/0265691410386423 )

Bracke, M. (2011) Competing utopias? The Partito Comunista Italiano between national, European and global allegiances (1960s-1970s). In: Lynch, F., Guirao, F. and Ramirez-Perez, S. (eds.) Alan S. Milward in a Century of European Change. Series: Routledge studies in modern European history . Routledge, London, UK. ISBN 9780415878531

Bracke, M. (2011) The Parti Communiste Français in May 1968: the impossible revolution? In: Klimke, M., Pekelder, J. and Scharloth, J. (eds.) Between the Prague Spring and the French May: Opposition and Revolt in Europe, 1960-1980. Series: Protest, culture, and society (7). Berghahn Books, New York, USA. ISBN 9780857451064

Bracke, M. (2011) They find themselves in terra incognita: connections and disjunctions between the Prague Spring and the French May. In: Sedivy, I., Nemecek, J., Kocian, J. and Tuma, O. (eds.) 1968: Ceske Krizovatky Evropskych Dejin. USD, Prague, pp. 207-219.

2009

Agosti, A., Abse, T., Andrews, G., Bracke, M., Levy, C., and Risso, L. (2009) A man between two worlds? Palmiro Togliatti and the Italian Communist Party: Roundtable discussion. Twentieth-Century Communism: A Journal of International History, 1 (1). ISSN 1758-6437

Bracke, M.A. (2009) May 1968 and Algerian immigrants in France: trajectories of mobilization and encounter. In: Bhambra, G.K. and Demir, I. (eds.) 1968 in Retrospect : History, Theory, Alterity. Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 9780230229327

2008

Bracke, M. (2008) Anti-Americanism. In: Tucker, S. (ed.) Encyclopedia of the Cold War: A Political, Social, and Military History. ABC-CLIO, Santa Barbara, USA. ISBN 9781851097012

Bracke, M. (2008) El fin del comunismo reformado. El Partito Comunista Frances y la crisis Checoslovaca de 1968. In: Pala, G. and Nencioni, T. (eds.) El Inicio del Fin del Mito Soviético. Los Comunistas Occidentales ante la Primavera de Praga. El Viejo Topo, Barcelona. ISBN 9788496831780

Bracke, M. (2008) French responses to the Prague Spring: connections, (mis)perception and appropriation. Europe: Asia Studies, 60 (10). pp. 1735-1747. ISSN 0966-8136 (doi:10.1080/09668130802434331 )

Bracke, M. (2008) Protest movements in the Cold War. In: Tucker, S. (ed.) Encyclopedia of the Cold War: A Political, Social, and Military History. ABC-CLIO, Santa Barbara, USA. ISBN 9781851097012

Bracke, M. (2008) Quale Socialismo, Quale Distensione? Il Comunismo Europeo e la Crisi Cecoslovacca del 1968. Carocci, Rome, Italy. ISBN 9788843050994

Bracke, M. (2008) Waldeck Rochet. In: Tucker, S. (ed.) Encyclopedia of the Cold War: A Political, Social, and Military History. ABC-CLIO, Santa Barbara, USA. ISBN 9781851097012

2007

Bracke, M. (2007) From the Atlantic to the Urals? French and Italian communism and the question of Europe in the long 1960s. Journal of European Integration History, 14 (2). ISSN 0947-9511

Bracke, M.A. (2007) Which Socialism? Whose Detente? West European Communism and the Czechoslovak Crisis of 1968. Central European University Press, New York. ISBN 9789637326943

2003

Bracke, M.A. (2003) The 1968 Czechoslovak crisis: reconsidering its history and politics. Contemporary European History, 12 (3). pp. 373-383. ISSN 1469-2171 (doi:10.1017/S0960777303001292)

Bracke, M. (2003) What can the Left learn from 1968? The Czechoslovak crisis, the Left in Western Europe, revolution and reform. Soundings, 23 . pp. 148-156. ISSN 1362-6620

2002

Bracke, M., and Jorgensen, T.E. (2002) West European Communism after Stalinism: Comparative Approaches. European University Institute Press.

1998

Bracke, M. (1998) De publieke functie van de koning onder Boudewijn. In: Memoriaal Koning Boudewijn, (ed.) Boudewijn, Zijn Tijd en Leven. Lannoo, Brussels, Belgium.

Bracke, M. (1998) Het persoonlijke leven van de koning. In: Memoriaal Koning Boudewijn, (ed.) Boudewijn, Zijn Tijd en Leven. Lannoo, Brussels, Belgium.

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  • British Academy small research grant, 2007 (£4,800)
  • British Academy small research grant, 2009 (£5,700)
  • Royal Society of Edinburgh, European Visiting Research Fellowship, 'Women and re-invention of the political: Feminism of difference in Italy, 1968-1983' - Jan-April 2013, EUI Florence.

In addition to research interests above: 

  • History of the British left and trade union movement, 20th century
  • Women's movements and feminist politics in Britain

Postgraduate:

  • Gender, Politics and Power
  • Social Theory and Social History

Honours:

  • Special Subject: 'Demanding the impossible: European societies in the 1960s'
  • European Communism 20th Century
  • The cultural and social history of the Cold War
  • The left and the nation in Europe, 19-20th Cent.

Pre-Honours:

  • History 1B: Europe 1500-2000

 

 

 

  • Visiting Researcher at European University Institute, Florence, September-December 2009
  • External undergraduate examiner at UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies, since 2009/10
  • Reviewer of senior research projects at the Czech Science Foundation, Czech Republic, 2009
  • Co-convenor of the Glasgow-Strathclyde seminar series in Modern European History, since 2008/09
  • Invited/funded speaker (selection):
    • International conference ‘May 1968: Politics, Theory, History’ , Lisbon University, April 2008
    • International conference ‘Civil Society, the Mass Media, and the Transfer of Political and Cultural Processes in the Prague Spring, 1968’, Charles University Prague, June 2008
    • International conference ‘1989 and Europe’, European University Institute Florence, November 2008
    • Oxford University, Faculty of History, research seminar, January 2009
    • Postgraduate masterclass, Zentrum fuer Zeithistorische Forschung, Potsdam, February 2010
    • Lecture in AHRC -funded series "Democracy in Italy: from the end of Fascism to Berlusconi', June 2010