Today, Victory in Europe Day, marks the anniversary of the end of World War II on the Eastern European Front on 8 May 1945. We are delighted to share the video-recording (hosted on Cambridge University Library’s YouTube channel) of the talk on the Chadwyck-Healey Liberation collection (1944-1946) we gave on 19 March, as part of the 2024 Cambridge Festival, in partnership with the Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages and Linguistics.

The first part, by Irene Fabry-Tehranchi, presents the Liberation collection and talks about some of its illustrated works, while the second part (starting at 34:07), by Sophie Dubillot (AHRC-funded collaborative PhD student, working on Purposes and Limits of Visual Humour in Early Post-War France (1944-46)’), focuses on humorous drawings in the collection.

Irène Fabry-Tehranchi