Lynch, Dr Frances
Room 303
University of Westminster
309 Regent Street
London W1B 2UW
Fax: +44 (20) 7911 5106
Email: lynchf@westminster.ac.uk
Reader in History, Department of Social and Historical Studies
Biography
Dr. Lynch is a renowned British authority on the French economy, with interests in European taxation and the role of France in overseas economic affairs. She completed her PhD in Economic History at the University of Manchester and taught at the universities of Liverpool, UMIST and Manchester before coming to the University of Westminster in 1995. She was a visiting research fellow at the European University Institute, Florence, on two occasions and has held a one-year British Academy/Leverhulme Trust research fellowship.
Research interests
Her research interests include:
The origins of European integration: see her book with Alan S. Milward et al., The Frontiers of National Sovereignty. History and Theory (London 1993).
The Economic history of France under the Fourth Republic: see her book France and the International Economy from Vichy to the Treaty of Rome (London 1997).
Franco-British technological collaboration in the aircraft industry: see her articles with Lewis Johnman in Contemporary European History, Twentieth Century British History, and Journal of European Integration History.
Taxation in postwar Europe: see her chapter in H. Nehrung and F. Schui (eds),
Global Debates about Taxation (London 2007) and her articles in Electoral Studies and Journal of European Integration History.
Current Research
Frances Lynch holds an ESRC grant for a research project entitled Who pays for the State? The Evolution of Personal Taxation in postwar Europe.
For details of this project, use the links below:
Selected recent publications
Books
Franceand the International Economy: from Vichy to the Treaty of Rome (London, Routledge, 1997).
With Alan S. Milward, Ruggero Ranieri, Federico Romero and Vibeke Sorensen, The Frontier of National Sovereignty. History and Theory, 1945-1992 (London, Routledge, 1993), pp. 59-87; reprinted in Richard T. Griffiths (ed.), The Economic Development of the EEC (Cheltenham, E. Elgar, 1997).
Contributions to books
Harmonization through competition? The Evolution of taxation in post-war Europe, in Holger Nehring and Florian Schui (eds), Global Debates about Taxation, Palgrave, Macmillan, 2007
Les consquences de lisolationnisme franais dans les annes 1940 et 1950 in Lconomie franaise dans la comptition internationale au XXe sicle, (Paris, Comit pour lhistoire conomique et financire de la France, 2007).
Lvolution des impts sur le revenu des personnes physiques en France depuis 1945 dans un cadre comparatif, in Comit pour lhistoire conomique et financire de la France, LImpt en France aux XIXe et Xxe sicles. (Paris, Imprimerie Nationale, 2006).
France and the origins of the European Community in Svein Dahl (ed.), National Interest and the EEC/EC/EU, (Tapir, Norway 1999) pp.15-26.
A missed opportunity to plan the reconstruction of Europe? Franco-British relations 1945-1947, in Michel Dumoulin (ed.), Plans des temps de guerre pour lEurope daprs-guerre (Brussels, 1994) pp. 459-467.
Le franc franais 1952-1957. Dbat sur la convertibilit, in Comit pour lHistoire conomique et financire du Ministre de lEconomie, des Finances et du Budget, Du franc Poincar lEcu (Paris, Imprimerie Nationale, 1993), pp. 385-395.
France and the European Payments Union, in Comit pour lHistoire conomique et financire du Ministre de lEconomie, des Finances et du Budget, Le Plan Marshall et le relvement conomique de lEurope (Paris, Imprimerie Nationale, 1993), pp. 237-243.
France, in A. Graham and A. Seldon (eds.), Government and Economies in the Postwar World. Economic policies and comparative performance 1945-1985 (Routledge, 1990), pp.54-78.
The Role of Jean Monnet in setting up the European Coal and Steel Community, in K. Schwabe (ed.), The Beginnings of the Schuman Plan (Nomos Verlag, 1988), pp. 117-129.
Journal Articles
Technological Non-Cooperation: Britain and Airbus The Journal of European Integration History, Vol. 12, No. 1 2006, pp 125-140
Finance and Welfare: the impact of two world wars on domestic policy in France The Historical Journal, Vol. 49, No. 2, 2006 pp 625-633
Income Tax and Elections in Britain, 1950-2001 Electoral Studies, 2005, pp393-408 (written with Paul Johnson and John Geoffrey Walker)
France and European Integration: from the Schuman Plan to Economic and Monetary Union Contemporary European History vol.3. No.1, 2004 pp 117-121
A Treaty too Far? Britain, France, and Concorde, 1961-1964, Twentieth Century British History, Vol. 13, No.3, 2002, pp 253-276 (written with Lewis Johnman)
The Road to Concorde: Franco-British Relations and the Supersonic Project, Contemporary European History, Vol.11, No.2, 2002, pp 229-252, (written with Lewis Johnman).
De Gaulles First Veto. France, the Rueff Plan and the Free Trade Area, Contemporary European History, Vol. 9, no. 1, 2000, pp. 111-135.
A Tax for Europe. The Introduction of Value Added Tax in France, Journal of European Integration History, vol. 4, no. 2, 1998, pp. 67-87.
La France, la Grande Bretagne et le problme du dollar 1945-1950, Matriaux pour lhistoire de notre temps no. 18, jan-mars 1990, pp.12-19.
Le Conseil tripartite 1944-1948, Guerres mondiales et conflits contemporaines no. 152, 1988, pp. 39-62 (written with Richard T. Griffiths).
LEchec de la petite Europe, Revue historique CCLXXIV/I, 1986, pp.159-193 (written with Richard T. Griffiths).
Resolving the paradox of the Monnet Plan: national and international planning in French reconstruction, Economic History Review XXXVII, no. 2, 1984, pp. 229-243.
Reprinted in Franois Crouzet (ed.), The Economic Development of France since 1870 (Aldershot, 1993).
Teaching
Frances Lynch has taught nineteenth and twentieth century European Economic History; twentieth century French history (in French); a history of European Integration (1EUR7A1) and a guide to the European Union (1CIT7A1) She is currently course leader for the MA in European Studies.
