We are delighted to share a link to a discounted price for Rachilde, La Sanglante Ironie, édition critique, by Helen Craske. The deadline for discounted subscription orders is 10 October. Helen was supported in this work by the 2024 Tim Unwin ECR grant. www.fabula.org/actualites/1...

This is another routine reminder that our journal @advancesjournal.bsky.social is actively seeking proposals for themed issues. Do get in touch with me directly if you are interested in submitting a proposal. Journal details 👇 www.tandfonline.com/journals/ran...

It’s mid-September and we are fully feeling those “back-to-school” vibes here at SDN. Start the new academic year on a high by sending us your abstract for #SDNCardiff2026, on the theme of health and happiness. More details here: uksdn.co.uk/health-and-h...

Coming up this Friday!

📢 Bydd cofrestru'n cau fory / Registration will close tomorrow.

The second session on Impact will take place on 14th November, 4pm GMT. It will be hosted by Professor Helen Abbott (Birmingham) and Dr Hannah Scott (Newcastle). Sign ups will open in October for this event.

The first session will be on Alt-Ac Careers on 26th September at 4pm BST, delivered by Dr James Illingworth (IFSA) and Dr Stacie Allan (Translator and Consultant) To sign up for this session, please register with eventbrite here: www.eventbrite.com/e/edn-2025-a...

We are delighted to share the details of our upcoming Early Career training sessions. These are open to postgraduate and early career members of the Society, and will take the form of a roundtable with the panelists, followed by an opportunity for attendees to ask questions.

📢Cynhadledd GORWELION Conference 🗓 17-19/09/2025 📍Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru @librarywales.bsky.social 🗣Prif siaradwyr / Plenaries: Mererid Hopwood, Barry Lewis, & Ian Stewart. 🔗Rhagor o fanylion / Further information: www.wales.ac.uk/cy/canolfan/...

The deadline of 1 September is fast approaching - be sure to send your applications in!

And if you are an ECR who is not a member of SDN, you can sort that out here: uksdn.co.uk/membership/

🚨 Tim Unwin Early Career Researcher Grant 🚨 Early career researcher grants of up to £500 are available to SDN members to assist with a research project related to 19th-century French studies. Send us your application by 1 September! More info here: uksdn.co.uk/ecr-grant/

Macron is right – let's revive the school French exchange to secure a future together www.politicshome.com/opinion/arti...

@salomeietter.bsky.social and I are very happy to share the call for papers for this year's PSA French Politics Specialist Group annual workshop. This will be held on 14th November at the University of Glasgow; the deadline for abstracts is 14th August. Please get in touch with any questions!

We are just finalising the next Paper Trails update and have a little space left, so if you happen to have some writing lying around that you'd like people to read, drop me a line (deadline: end of July)! 🗃️ This thread will be a reminder of the remit of this UCL Press Open Access 'living book' ...

📻Bu @heatherhmw.bsky.social o’r Ganolfan yn siarad gyda Dei Tomos neithiwr am gysylltiadau’r teulu Dufaud o Ffrainc gyda Merthyr. Tua 38:35 munud i mewn i’r rhaglen. Gallwch wrando eto👇 www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Stop cuts to Modern Languages at Bangor University 👉Sign the petition: chng.it/K2zRY6Jqqt 👉Share the petition with family/friends/networks. 👉Send emails outlining your objections. For details and templates visit the website: www.stopcutsinmlatbangor.uk/home/

Important to note that, despite positive press, modern languages at Cardiff University are far from saved. Ancient History and Religion lose their named degrees, but at least there is some commitment (for now) to teach those topics as part of other degrees.

Some thoughts about this photo of Jeanne Duval, which I have been obsessing over since seeing it for the first time at the weekend. Thanks again, SO much, to @summerbrennan.bsky.social who discovered it, and please do go to her substack for more on this www.awritersnotebook.org/p/jeanne-duv... 1/12

So, this seems totally legitimate -- what an amazing, incredible find by writer and investigative journalist Summer Brennan @summerbrennan.bsky.social, who found it in a box of photo archives in the Richelieu library. For a sense of why this is so important, see Therese Dolan's 1/5

Stop the cuts to Modern Languages at Bangor University chng.it/9MmM2G8sJj

We are delighted to announce that our call for papers for the next annual SDN conference, on the theme of 'Health and happiness/La santé et le bonheur', to take place in Cardiff 8-10 April, is now online, and our new abstract submission form is open for business!

And if #SDNCardiff2026 wasn’t already tempting enough, we are pleased to announce that our keynote speakers will be Seth Whidden (The Queen’s College, Oxford) and Manon Mathias (University of Glasgow)!

Very excited for tomorrow’s SERD-organised seminar "Le XIXe siècle autour du monde", featuring Angela di Benedetto (Université de Foggia) and SDN member Susan Hiner (Vassar College). The theme is :« Séduire et éblouir : des stratagèmes amoureux aux travailleuses de la mode ».

Sort of good but mostly not. They still want to close 3 languages completely. And teaching-only contracts at basic starting salary grade 6, no research-led teaching, no culture/hist/lit modules on lang degrees. No confirmation on how many T&R in MLANG to be saved. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Congratulations to the winner of our 2025 Postgraduate Prize, Abigail Fields, for her paper, ‘Vous, les agriculteurs, hommes de progrès et de moralité!’; or, Flaubert and the Politics of the Comices Agricoles’ 🥳

The annual SFPS @sfps.bsky.social conference is also dedicated to Fanon. The programme looks excellent. More info here sfps.org.uk/forthcoming-...

It’s uncanny, the way university senior management identify the most unique and irreplaceable aspects of their institutions as being the most obvious targets for cuts. It’s almost as if they didn’t know what universities were for.

Sgwrs ddiddorol gyda Kathryn Jones am Lydawyr yng Nghymry yn dilyn y Rhyfel yma: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Absolute magic. I cycled past those Magdalen boys in Cowley Place every day in the 1990s!

1st May. My favourite day of the year.

Please read this

There are amazing French collections all over the UK & you can read a profile of the Barbier Papers at @cardiffunilib.bsky.social written by @hdiamond.bsky.social. The legacy of the university’s first Professor of French, Paul Barbier, is rich & fascinating ucldigitalpress.co.uk/BOOC/Article...

This was my small contribution, but I'm looking forward to writing more about this! @yganolfangeltaidd.bsky.social

Great thread here on French collections in British libraries opens out onto fascinating Franco-British connections.

I have sent the PM on behalf of 33 distinguished signatories (+me) this letter calling on the Gov’t to sustain funding for the British Council. An effective national security strategy in a changed world needs not just more defence spending but investment in our soft power assets. 1/2

Looking for a venue for that inspiring 19th-century-esque article you're writing? Look no further! Paul Watt is our General Editor with responsibility for articles - get in touch here: www.tandfonline.com/journals/ran...

And well done to our highly commended entrants, Isabel Maloney and Ellamae Lepper!

Even more reason to celebrate… congratulations to the winner of this year’s SDN publication prize, Charles Bégué Fawell for the article ‘Effervescent Seas: Racialized Labor and Mobile Militancy on the Steamship Highways of the French Indo-Pacific’, French Historical Studies, 47.3 (2024), 399-427

Erthygl newydd gan @heatherhmw.bsky.social o'r Ganolfan / New article by @heatherhmw.bsky.social from CAWCS: ucldigitalpress.co.uk/BOOC/Article...

I SO agree with this, and thought it even before the Cyberattack

Imagine the Parliamentary Questions, the Times editorials, if a piece of national scientific infrastructure had been rendered inaccessible. Instead other than an honourable FT weekend piece, no one has paid any attention to the troubles continuing to beset our national library

Happening in just under 2 hours...sign up if you can to hear why the French Revolution never happened.

Just testing you... this talk is actually *tomorrow* evening, Friday 4 April, 5pm UK time -- for the speaker it will be early morning on Friday, for others possibly Saturday morning... please come along in whatever time zone you are!

Welsh as the language of angels! Read this article on a Franco-Welsh family in Cardiff in the early twentieth century.

Delighted to have a piece in this in Breton Collections in the National Library of Wales. Thank you Andrew!

Last day of SDNDurham 2025 today @uksdn.bsky.social Looking foward to the usual wide range of fascinating papers.

Getting ready to speak about Auguste Brizeux later today 'From poet of his region to "reginal poet"' at #sdnDurham2025 @uksdn.bsky.social