Scottish Centre for War Studies and Conflict Archaeology

Dr Rachel Chin is a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the University of Glasgow, working on the AHRC-funded project ‘The Weight of the Past in Franco-British Relations’.  Her research focusses on 20^th century Franco-British relations, particularly in the context of The Second World War as well as wider episodes of imperial rivalry and imperial violence.  She has published research on Franco-British tensions in the Levant in 1945 and the rhetoric of Franco-British alliance in 1940 in The European Review of History and The Journal of Contemporary History respectively. Her assessment on British justifications of the bombardment of the French fleet at Mers el-Kébir (July 1940) was published in the edited collection Rhetorics of Empire: Languages of Colonial Conflict after 1900 (MUP, 2017).  Rachel has taught on the history of the Second World War, empire, global conflict and history and memory at the University of Glasgow, the University of Exeter and Sciences Po. She is a managing editor for the British Journal of Military History.

First published: 1 January 2021