Martin Evans

In 1963 a border dispute between Morocco and Algeria escalated into the Sand War. What began as an ideological difference between two newly independent nations soon became personal.

Signed at the height of the Second World War, the Atlantic Charter set out the terms for the decolonisation of French North Africa.

Since the late 19th century, French politics has provided a testing ground for right-wing populism.

Teenagers were agents of change in 1960s Britain, but the birth of youth movements such as the Mods was heavily indebted to the multicultural society from which they grew.

From de Gaulle’s call to arms against Vichy France to Liberation four years later, we review The French Resistance by Olivier Wieviorka.

Although it once represented the victory of anti-clerical republicanism, laïcité has come to mean something very different.

After the kidnapping of Moroccan revolutionary Mehdi Ben Barka in 1965, the fingers of blame pointed in several directions. The details of what happened are still not known.

As a historical concept, resistance has been largely ignored by academics.

On the centenary of his birth, Martin Evans looks at the evolving legacy of the Algerian-born French writer Albert Camus