ANTOINE CAPET is Professor of British Studies at the University of Rouen, France. He did his Doctorat d' tat on Le poids des ann?es de guerre: Les classes dirigeantes britanniques et la r?forme sociale, 1931-1951, published in book form in 1991. He is currently 'Britain since 1914' Section Editor of the Royal Historical Society Bibliography and sits on the Editorial Committees of Cultural and Social History and Twentieth Century British History. As Head of the CERCLA Research Group at Rouen, he has organized many conferences with invited British scholars, notably one on Anglo-French relations