I'm a historian of modern France and violence. I started working at MMU in August 2018, after working at Swansea University, Cardiff University and Birkbeck, University of London. I love France, the French, and Europe, and have done so since I spent a year teaching English in Nancy, France, as an undergraduate. When I'm not researching, writing, or talking about France, I run - winning a race or two along the way - and swim, having learned at last to put my head under water in 2017.
Lecturing history is the best job in the world and I'll teach you with all the energy and enthusiasm of someone who loves what he does.
PhD in History, Cardiff University (2009)
MA Twentieth-Century History, University of Liverpool (2005)
BA Combined Honours French and History, University of Liverpool (2004)
PGCTHE, Swansea University (2015)
Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
Lecturer (then Senior Lecturer and Associate Professor), Swansea University, 2012-2018
British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow, Cardiff University, 2010-2012
Lecturer, Birkbeck, University of London, 2009-2010
French (advanced)
Greek (beginner)
Studying history gives you an awareness of other cultures, traditions, and opinions. It opens your eyes to different ways of seeing the world, of understanding why and how other people behave in the ways that they do, whether they live on the other side of the world or just down the road. It not only makes you employable - through developing skills in communication, research, problem solving and critical thinking - it quite simply makes you a better human being.
Modern France and Europe; political violence and terrorism; conflict, warfare and veterans
C. Millington (2022). La France en guerre. Une histoire globale, 1940-1945. Flammarion.
C. Millington Murder in Marseille: Far-Right Terrorism in 1930s Europe. Manchester University Press.
C. Millington (2023). The Invention of Terrorism in France, 1904-1939. Stanford University Press.
C. Millington (2022). La France en guerre. Une histoire globale, 1940-1945. Flammarion.
C. Millington (2021). Le Massacre de Clichy. Violences politiques et policières au temps du Front populaire. Editions Critiques.
C. Millington (2020). France in the Second World War Collaboration, Resistance, Holocaust, Empire. Bloomsbury Academic.
B. Jenkins, C. Millington (2020). Le fascisme français Le 6 février 1934 et le déclin de la République.
C. Millington (2019). A history of fascism in France: From the first world war to the national front. Bloomsbury Academic.
C. Millington (2018). Fighting for France Violence in Interwar French Politics. British Academy Monographs.
K. Passmore, C. Millington (2015). Political Violence and Democracy in Western Europe, 1918-1940. C. Millington, K. Passmore. Springer.
B. Jenkins, C. Millington (2015). France and Fascism February 1934 and the Dynamics of Political Crisis. Routledge.
C. Millington (2012). From Victory to Vichy Veterans in Inter-War France.
C. Millington (2018). Immigrants and undesirables: “terrorism” and the “terrorist” in 1930s France. Critical Studies on Terrorism. pp.1-20.
C. Millington (2018). Getting Away with Murder: Political Violence on Trial in Interwar France. European History Quarterly. 48(2), pp.256-282.
C. Millington (2018). Were we terrorists? History, terrorism, and the French Resistance. History Compass. 16(2), pp.e12440-e12440.
C. Brown, C. Millington (2015). The Memory of the Cambodian Genocide: the Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum. History Compass. 13(2), pp.31-39.
C. Millington (2014). Street-fighting Men: Political Violence in Inter-war France. The English Historical Review. 129(538), pp.606-638.
C. Millington (2014). The origins of fascism in France. History Today. 64(3),
C. Millington (2012). French election: The shadow of the dark years. History Today. 62(6),
C. Millington (2012). From Victory to Vichy.
C. Millington (2012). Political Violence in Interwar France. History Compass. 10(3), pp.246-259.
C. Millington (2012). The French Veterans and the Republic: The Union nationale des combattants and the Union fédérale, 1934–1938. European History Quarterly. 42(1), pp.50-70.
C. Millington (2010). February 6, 1934: The Veterans' Riot. French Historical Studies. 33(4), pp.545-572.
C. Millington (2023). Mad or Bad? Paul Gorguloff, the Man Who Killed the French President in 1932. In: Terrorism through the Ages. Brill,
C. Millington (2023). France. In: European Fascist Movements A Sourcebook. Routledge,
C. Millington (2019). Les affrontements violents des années 1930. In: L'histoire refoulée. La Rocque, les Croix de feu, et la question du fascisme français. Les Editions du Cerf,
C. Millington (2015). Duelling with words and fists: Meeting hall violence in interwar France. In: Political Violence Anddemocracy In Western Europe, 1918-1940. pp.112-126.
C. Millington (2015). Duelling with Words and Fists: Meeting Hall Violence in Interwar France. In: Political Violence and Democracy in Western Europe, 1918–1940. Palgrave Macmillan UK, pp.112-126.
C. Millington (2014). The veterans and the extreme right: The union nationale des combattants, 1927-1936. In: The French Right between the Wars: Political and Intellectual Movements From Conservatism to Fascism. Berghahn Books, pp.65-80.
C. Millington (2014). France in an Era of Global War, 1914–1945. L. Broch, A. Carrol. In: France in an Era of Global War, 1914-1945: Occupation, Politics, Empire and Entanglements. Palgrave Macmillan UK, pp.73-91.
C. Millington The Shooting at Chartres. In: France in an Era of Global War, 1914-1945. Palgrave Macmillan,
C. Millington Duelling with Words and Fists. In: Political Violence and Democracy in Western Europe, 1918-1940. Palgrave Macmillan,
2016: Teaching History, Institute of Historical Research, London
Using Digital Technologies for Teaching and Research, Swansea University.
2015: Teaching Skills for Postgraduate History Teachers, September, Cardiff University.
2014: Cultures of Policing Workshop, funded by the Research Institute for the Arts and Humanities, Swansea University
2013-2018: Cardiff-Swansea French History Seminar Series
2012: ‘Political violence in interwar Europe’, Cardiff University in September 2012, funded by the German History Society, the Society for French Studies, the Society for the Study of French History and the Royal Historical Society
2019 Research Scholarship from the Gerda Henkel Stifting, Principal Investigator – ‘Constructions of Terrorism in Wartime France’: 36,000 Euros
2018 Research Scholarship from the Gerda Henkel Stifting, Principal Investigator – ‘Constructions of Terrorism in Wartime France’: 36,000 Euros
2015 British Academy Rising Star Engagement Award, Principal Investigator – ‘Teaching History in the Twenty-First Century’: £15,000
- Welsh Crucible Research Award, Principal Investigator – ‘Perceptions of terrorism’: £6,000
2014 - British Academy Small Research Grant, Principal Investigator – ‘Violence during strikes 1918-1940’: £4,000
2010 - British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship, Principal Investigator – ‘Political violence in interwar France’: £242, 000
2009 – Scouloudi Junior Research Fellowship, Principal Investigator, IHR, London: £12,000
Excellence in Learning and Teaching Award, Swansea University: a student nominated-prize for academic staff