Bertrand Taithe is professor at the University of Manchester where he works on the history of humanitarianism and humanitarian aid. His publications include: Defeated Flesh (1999), Citizenship and Wars (2001), French Masculinities (2007), The Killer Trail (2011), The Charity Market and Humanitarianism in Britain, 1870-1912 (2018) and edited L’Humanitaire s’exhibe – The Humanitarian Exhibition, Geneva, Georg, 2022, Decolonising Imperial Heroes: Cultural legacies of the British and French Empires 2016. He is currently writing a monograph on humanitarian practices. A founder of the Humanitarian and Conflicts Response Institute (hcri.ac.uk), editor of European Review of History and Journal of Humanitarian Affairs, he is also on the scientific committee of the Centre de Réflexion sur l’action et les savoirs humanitaires at Médecins sans Frontières. For full details see hcri.ac.uk and www.manchester.ac.uk/research/Bertrand.taithe/
