Dr. Simon Macdonald |
October 2011- January 2012 | |
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Dr. Simon Macdonald has been awarded a Postdoctoral Fellowship at IASH to work on his project: “British Communities in Late Eighteenth-Century France”. My research interests revolve around the cultural history of British links with Europe during the eighteenth century, focusing on population exchange, transnational groups, and their material traces. Recent historiography on eighteenth-century Britain has featured rich considerations of its global and imperial aspects, but attention to European contexts has lagged behind; my research contributes to the development of this field of study. As a Postdoctoral Fellow at IASH, I am working to complete a book based on my recent PhD thesis, ‘British communities in late eighteenth-century Paris’ (Cambridge, 2011). This examines British relations with France, and with Europe more widely, through a focus on the diverse and well-documented British expatriate presence in Paris around 1789. In studying expatriate communities, my work identifies the broader spheres of cross-Channel intermixing which such transnational actors helped to foster, and probes larger historical questions about changing patterns of international exchange.
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