Really pleased to announce the launch of the all-new, all-dancing, London Lives website - www.londonlives.org It has been thoroughly re-engineered to facilitate more types of search, and redesigned for phones and tablets. The team very much hopes peope like it. 1/

Your challenge for this weekend is to put in an abstract for Queer Bibliography 2026. It's what all the cool kids are doing. The theme is Space, Place, Community (widely understood, certainly not limited to the South). CFP: shorturl.at/XAVJ0; Submit: forms.gle/XD7FgrrStp3j... Athens GA and online

Farquad mafia

🚨 New article! I'm excited to share “The sodomy consultant of Paris, 1688–1737,” published this week in French Historical Studies: read.dukeupress.edu/french-histo... . A 🧵:

If you’re near @harvard.edu this afternoon, join us for a discussion of @hannahfrydman.bsky.social’s fabulous new book, in conversation with yours truly. ces.fas.harvard.edu/events/2025/...

Please join us on Friday to hear @hannahfrydman.bsky.social speak with Raisa Rexer about her brilliant new book, Between the Sheets: Sexuality, Classified Advertising, and the Moral Threat to Press Freedom in France!!! 🔥🔥🔥

If you’re in the Boston area this Wednesday I’d love for you to come on out! This talk is free and open to the public. as.tufts.edu/art-architec...

The full LGBTQIA+ Book History Bibliography is here 🏳️‍🌈!!! 650+ items of LGBTQIA+ #BookHistory!! Check out the intro to see how we made it, the primary bibliography, the article appendix, and the absolutely magnificent zine!!! From monographs to zines, you'll find it here! sharpweb.org/sharpnews/20...

teachers! excited to share a new website at this late date of Aug 15 to try to help us collectively prepare for back to school in the interpretative humanities classroom assaulted by the AI grift, so we don't have to go it alone. take a look, share, + most importantly: CONTRIBUTE against-a-i.com

"As sex worker, queer, and, more recently, abortion activists continue to remind us, the rights infringements oppressed communities are experiencing [on the internet] will not stop on the margins." www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/media-sex-fr...

Hannah Frydman, author of BETWEEN THE SHEETS, discusses the history of sexual #advertising and the modern ways we see #media and #FreeSpeech grapple with sexual content. @hannahfrydman.bsky.social Now on the #SageHouseBlog: www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/media-sex-fr...

If you read "Between the Sheets," I wouldn't recommend starting with page 99, but, if you do, this blog post might help! page99test.blogspot.com/2025/08/hann... @cornellupress.bsky.social @bethanywasik.bsky.social

"'Between the Sheets' reveals a space, hidden in plain sight in Third Republican Paris, where deviant sexualities and lives could be experimented with and financed... That space was the newspaper..." - @hannahfrydman.bsky.social www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/media-histor...

Be sure to read this new review of FIVE recent books on Algerian History (@tgpeterson.bsky.social, @elisefranklin.bsky.social, Sara Rahnama, Elizabeth Perego, and Susan Slyomovics) by @anaisfaurt.bsky.social in Contemporary European History! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

It's pub day for Between the Sheets! So excited for this book to be officially out in the world. Looking forward to getting the chance to talk about it over the coming months! www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...

BETWEEN THE SHEETS by @hannahfrydman.bsky.social reveals a space where deviant sexualities + lives could be experimented with and financed, despite attempts at norming the population through the heterosexual family. #NewBooks #CornellUniversityPress www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...

My book, among many others, is currently at 50% off on @cornellupress.bsky.social website with the code 095000. Don’t miss out!

Looks like my book is in this @cornellupress.bsky.social sale! Want to know how a wildly unpopular king trumped up an attack on a Muslim country to justify suspending the rule of law at home? But then ended up getting overthrown himself? This is the book for you 🗃️

@hannahfrydman.bsky.social looks at the “infinite archive” and its search capability in “In Defense of the Search Bar,” and demonstrates how the “anarchy of the mass digitization and its search bar” can push researchers to “think outside of long-established classifications.” #AHR 🗃️

Really excited that my "In Defense of the Search Bar," which argues that keyword search allows us to queer the archive and how we see the past, is out now in the #AHR! doi.org/10.1093/ahr/...

I wrote for @ca.theconversation.com re: the 30th anniversary (this Fri) of President Jacques Chirac's June 13th, 1995 announcement that France would be resuming nuclear testing in the Pacific. 210 detonations in Algeria & Mā'ohi Nui (French Polynesia) from 1960-1996. Thousands of victims.

Check out the special section of NCFS that Cary Hollingshead-Strick and I co-edited—“Fueling the Nineteenth Century"! It was so great working with all these wonderful authors!🔥🚂⛴️🌲 www.ncfs-journal.org/current-toc

Good mail day! (Too camera shy for an unboxing video, so just imagine me opening this much-needed infusion of pink joy with delight)

Team #BlueSkyStorians & @sfhs.bsky.social, I have awesome news... @hannahfrydman.bsky.social's cleverly titled "Between the Sheets" is shipping! Intrigued? Find your copy at @cornellupress.bsky.social's page, add to your cart, and anxiously await arrival: www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...

We are pleased to announce that the Gilbert Chinard Book Prize has been awarded to Elisa Camiscioli for Selling French Sex: Prostitution, Trafficking and Global Migrations . Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2024. Congratulations! www.cambridge.org/gb/universit...

Happening this Tuesday! Do join us and sign up via the link below.

My advanced copy of Between the Sheets is competing with my rhododendrons now, but spring blooms probably won't last much longer. You can pre-order my book for an infusion of color in the summer www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501... (use code 09BCARD for 30% off)

Taylor M. Moore traces the scientific afterlife of the mummified body of Queen Henhenit in “Living Fossils,” highlighting the implications of the use of women’s bodies in the practice of medicine and the production of race science in modern Egypt. 🗃️

I'm really excited to be able to share the cover of my new book, "Between the Sheets: Sexuality, Classified Advertising, and the Moral Threat to Press Freedom in France," coming out in July with @cornellupress.bsky.social and available for pre-order at www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...

Excited that my article "Feathered Foes: Bird Preservation, National Identity, & Fashion in Belle Époque France," is in the latest issue of French Politics, Culture & Society. Find out how ladies' hats became a matter of environmental policy! 🗃️ nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...

Our Zoom book series NCFS Unbound resumes this Friday at 2:30 EST with Helen Craske in conversation with @hannahfrydman.bsky.social Helen’s new book is Complicity in Fin-de-Siècle Literature Register below #academicsky #FrHistory #FrenchStudies

Super news for the #BlueSkyStorians, @sfhs.bsky.social, & historically-minded matchmaking fans! @andreamansker.bsky.social's "Matchmaking and the Marriage Market in Postrevolutionary France" is ready to order now at @cornellupress.bsky.social's book page: www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...

Graduate advisors have a responsibility to support doctoral students who increasingly pursue non-professorial careers. Join us for "More than a Safety Net--A Bridge," a @WestFrenchHist event on 11/9 at 10am EST. Link to registration: www.eventbrite.com/e/more-than-...

I am going to be discussing my book, Drugging France, this Sunday with the wonderful Hannah Frydman. If you are interested in drug history, please join us! @hannahfrydman.bsky.social @sfhs.bsky.social

Congratulations Hannah!

And now I see that Hannah Frydman's marvelous article in FHS has always won a prize, and has been made open access: “Freedom’s Sex Problem. Classified Advertising, Law, and the Politics of Reading in Third Republic France.” doi.org/10.1215/0016... 🗃️

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A reminder that applications are due this Friday by 23h59 EDT for Harvard's pre-1800 French and Francophone Studies tenure-track position! If you're applying and just sitting on an application that's already complete, please just submit! academicpositions.harvard.edu/postings/12490