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By the end of the nineteenth century Paris was widely acknowledged as the cultural capital of the world; Edinburgh by contrast may still be thought of as a rather staid city of lawyers and Presbyterian ministers, academics and doctors. Yet despite this apparent cultural opposition, Professor Reynolds argues that in fact both cities shared a number of similar concerns and ideals that were fostered and developed by growing links and international travel. This book seeks not to treat Paris-Edinburgh links in isolation, or to exaggerate them, but to use them to provide a fresh perspective on the internationalism of the Belle Epoque.
Siân Reynolds
Siân Reynolds was born and educated in Cardiff, read modern languages at St. Anne’s College, Oxford, and has a doctorate in history from the University of Paris-VII, supervised by Michelle Perrot. She has taught in secondary schools, adult education, and the Universities of Sussex and Edinburgh, and was a professor of French at the University of Stirling from 1990 to 2004. Reynolds has published books on both French and Scottish history, and has translated works by leading French historians such as Fernand Braudel as well as detective novels by Fred Vargas. She is a past president of the Association for the Study of Modern and Contemporary France, and is currently a trustee of the Scottish Working People’s History Trust.
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