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The British Library is currently looking for academic partners at UK universities for our AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Partnerships programme to work on a project focusing on the Library’s collection of caricatures from the Franco-Prussian War and the Paris Commune. The application deadline is 22 November 2019 at 17.00.AHRC CDPs provide funding for PhD research drawing on ourcollections, resources and expertise.&#160;The research is co-supervised by the Library and selected academicpartners at a UK university or Higher Education Institute (HEIs).&#160; Please note that the British Library has anallocation for three studentships from the AHRC for this round of the CDPprogramme. Consequently, only three of the four advertised projects will bedeveloped into CDPS and allocated funding. The project will draw on the Library’s extensivecollection of caricatures and images as well as on other rare complementarymaterial to explore representations of the Franco-Prussian War and the ParisCommune and the collecting, distribution and reach of the sets of caricatures. The caricatures lend themselves to research in the fieldsof history, cultural memory, French and German studies, art history, culturalstudies, gender studies, war studies, urban history, book history, the historyof collections, etc.&#160; The project willadd a new dimension to our understanding of several processes at key moments inFrench (and German) history: the development of national identities, the creationof a modern popular culture, and the development of caricature as a medium.Please feel free to get in touch with the BL supervisors(Sophie.Defrance@bl.uk &#60;mailto:Sophie.Defrance@bl.uk&#62; ; Teresa.Vernon@bl.uk &#60;mailto:Teresa.Vernon@bl.uk&#62; ) if youwould like to discuss your ideas with us before applying or if you have anyquestions. For application guidelines, assessment criteria, and the full project description, please visit this website. __Article image:  La dégringolade, par Paul Klenck, University Library of Cambridge, Public domain, https://europeancollections.wordpress.com/2019/10/15/3-year-postdoctoral-fellowships-in-digital-humanities-and-the-cambridge-1870-71-french-caricature-collection/. 