Hanna Diamond

Professor Hanna Diamond is a leading historian specialising in the social and cultural history of France during the Second World War. She is Professor Emerita of French History at Cardiff University and completed her undergraduate and PhD studies at the University of Sussex. With extensive experience teaching and researching in France and the UK, she has published several influential books, including Fleeing Hitler: France 1940 (OUP, 2007) and Women and the Second World War in France 1939-48 (Longman, 1999). Professor Diamond frequently takes on consultancy roles for media, film and TV production. She also collaborates with museums including the Musée de la Libération de Paris, where she co-curated exhibitions on wartime France. Her expertise also extends to gender, oral histories, and the memory of wartime experiences. Most recently, she authored Josephine Baker’s Secret War published by Yale University Press (2025) revealing the hidden role of the famed entertainer as a spy for the French Resistance during the Second World War.