The following are some essays, articles and talks relating to the collection. We will try to add links to this page as and when new information is published. Please do let us know if we've missed anything.
(from Liberation.b.34)
- We are writing a series of blog posts about the collection as we catalogue it, and as we encounter interesting material.
- The collection was the subject of an exhibition held in 2014 at the Cambridge University Library, and in 2015 at the Grolier Club in New York.
- Exhibition website, including images of selected books from the collection.
- Exhibition catalogue: Literature of the liberation: the French experience in print, 1944-1946 / Charles Chadwyck-Healey. Cambridge: Cambridge University Library, 2014 (Cam.b.2014.25) - Preface
- Short fim and presentation by Charles Chadwyck-Healey on the occasion of the opening of the exhibition at Cambridge University Library
- Presentation by Charles Chadwyck-Healey on the occasion of the opening of the exhibition at the Grolier Club
- Article by Charles Chadwyck-Healey in The Book Collector, March 2015
- Presentation by Charles Chadwyck-Healey entitled Power of the Image, given at Clare Hall in June 2015
- Article by Charles Chadwyck-Healey entitled The Book as Precious Object, written in September 2016
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An annual Liberation lecture, accompanied by a pop-up book exhibition of books from the collection, has been organised between 2017 and 2022:
- 17 November 2022, Rory Finnin, ‘Volia: Defiant Freedom and Liberation at the Centre of Ukraine's National Identity’ (recorded on YouTube)
- 27 April 2021, Laurence Bertrand Dorléac, ‘Why the story changes: new understandings of art in occupied France’ (recorded on YouTube)
- 21 November 2019, James Holland, 'Normandy ’44'
- 1 November 2018, Anne Sebba, 'Parisian women and the Nazi occupation'
- 14 November 2017, Julian Jackson, ‘De Gaulle at the Liberation’
A talk on “Illustrated books and humour in Cambridge University Library’s Liberation collection (1944-1946)” was given by Irene Fabry-Tehranchi (Cambridge University Library, French collections) and Sophie Dubillot (AHRC-funded collaborative PhD student) on 19 March 2024, as part of the Cambridge Festival (recorded on YouTube)