You can read all about the 10th anniversary of D Day in my @frenchhistory.bsky.social article 🗃️ doi.org/10.1093/fh/c...

If you published your first book in French history in 2024, you might like to submit it for the Society for the Study of French History Book Prize, deadline 31 July 2025 and more details here: frenchhistorysociety.co.uk/ssfh-book-pr... @frenchhistory.bsky.social

Question for historians of France - can you help me work out any big anniversaries for 2027? It's the 70th anniv of Treaty of Rome. Also the end of the War of the First Coalition in 1797 (perhaps a stretch). Can you think of any more big anniversaries for 2027? @frenchhistory.bsky.social 🗃️

New article by Samuel Weber, 'Unmanning the author: Jean-Joseph Languet de Gergy and anti-fandom in eighteenth-century France' – ribbons, anti-clericalism, dirty jokes, and a new take on pre-Revolutionary libel culture... academic.oup.com/fh/article/d... @frenchhistory.bsky.social

Many congratulations to @historybeagle.bsky.social and @rouge1767.bsky.social for this well deserved recognition of their excellent @frenchhistory.bsky.social article on women medical enterpreneurs.

Cathy McClive (rouge1767.bksy.social) and I are absolutely delighted with this good news, and to be included in the list with such excellent scholars as Deirdre Lyons (also honorable mention) and Charles Begué Fawell (winner). #EarlyModern #Skystorians

Congratulations to Cathy McClive and @historybeagle.bsky.social for their honorable mention in the 2025 Koren Prize for this #OA piece in French History! doi.org/10.1093/fh/c... www.societyforfrenchhistoricalstudies.net/the-william-... 🗃️

I'm very excited to be joining the team at French History! Looking forward to working with the team and helping to publish excellent research on the history of France and the Francophone world!

French History is delighted to announce that we have welcomed the @lrhodges.bsky.social to our editorial team as an Associate Editor. You can find full details of the rest of the team and the editorial board here: academic.oup.com/fh/pages/Edi...

Publishing today in Modern History ✨⬇️ FERTILE EXPECTATIONS - a #SSFH publication on involuntary childlessness in #20thc France BRUTAL TREATMENTS - a @sshmedicine.bsky.social publication on medicine & colonial violence at the end of empire @juliekalman.bsky.social @frenchhistory.bsky.social

Delighted to have my research on the exploits of 20th-century Catholic musicians and artists in Saint-Germain-en-Laye published in @frenchhistory.bsky.social : t.co/V1o8WCwuMX

Fascinating review by David Parrott of *Privilege, Economy and State in Old Regime France: Marine Insurance, War and the Atlantic Empire Under Louis XIV* by Lewis Wade, winner of the SSFH First Book Prize @frenchhistory.bsky.social @wadehistory.bsky.social academic.oup.com/fh/article-a...

and last but not least “Was the Section française de l’Internationale ouvrière also African? 1945–1960”, Françoise Blum, doi.org/10.1093/fh/c... 5/5

“French socialism in the Argentine Partido Socialista: political dimensions of an uncomfortable presence (1890–1915)”, Carlos M Herrera and Francisco J Reyes doi.org/10.1093/fh/c...

“French socialism and Austromarxism: archaeology of a failed transfer (1904–1934)”, Pierre-Henri Lagedamon, doi.org/10.1093/fh/c...

2/5: “The international Section française de l’Internationale ouvrière? French socialism in the International and its relationship with the Partito Socialista Italiano during diplomatic crises (1911–1915)” from Elisa Marcobelli doi.org/10.1093/fh/c...

Great to see the latest special issue of @frenchhistory.bsky.social is out: “French Socialism and French socialists beyond France” 🗃️ Including “Introduction: international/transnational perspectives on the history of French socialism” Jean-Numa Ducange and Talbot Imlay, doi.org/10.1093/fh/c...

Deadline extended to 31 March for applications to join the @frenchhistory.bsky.social editorial team. Please get in touch if you have any questions.

New article in French History by Sean Heath, 'Parisian street songs and the propaganda campaign over the Sorbonne’s Chinese censure (1700)' – with musical accompaniment! 🎼⛪🧑‍🎓🎶 doi.org/10.1093/fh/c... @frenchhistory.bsky.social #earlymodern

Please do feel free to get in touch with the editors with questions about this position! #FrenchRevolution #18thC 🗃️

Please do feel free to get in touch with the editors with questions about this position! #FrenchRevolution #18thC 🗃️

New in French History @frenchhistory.bsky.social, 'Regional networks in revolt: opposition to the Valois in Gascony at the end of the Hundred Years’ War, c.1452–1453', by Andrew Green academic.oup.com/fh/article-a... 🏰⚔️🤴👸⛰️ #medieval

The Urban History Group has launched a new regular blog series to coincide with the return of their conference Here are my thoughts on researching the history of housing crises during an era of housing crisis, as well as the key role of the UHG in these discussions of the urban past and present

Excited Christine's article is now available with French History! @frenchhistory.bsky.social

The latest issue of French History is out now, a special issue on 'Rethinking the aristocracy in Capetian France, 987–1328' edited by Daniel Power doi.org/10.1093/fh/c... I think this is our first ever #medieval special issue @frenchhistory.bsky.social ! 👸🤴🦄💂🧑‍🌾🏰🇫🇷

An update from the other place. We are happy to say that we will be posting here instead.

Historians of France and the Francophone world, please consider bringing your expertise and ideas to the @frenchhistory.bsky.social editorial team by applying to be an associate editor. D/line 5 March. Full details here: frenchhistorysociety.co.uk/associate-ed... Very happy to answer questions.

The @frenchhistory.bsky.social is recruiting another associate editor to join our team, with a preference for an 18th c or revolution specialist. The journal team are a wonderful intellectual community behind loads of recent exciting initiatives 🗃️ frenchhistorysociety.co.uk/associate-ed...

Are you an early-career researcher working in Early Modern or Modern French History? In partnership with @frenchhistory.bsky.social, we're running two book development fellowships to support you with your first book. - £1000 - Mentoring from editors - Deadline 21 March tinyurl.com/53amvrv7

I am stunned and delighted to be the inaugural recipient of the Society for the Study of French History First Book Prize. Thank you to @frenchhistory.bsky.social, and to everyone who helped to make the book a reality! @boydellandbrewer.bsky.social #FrenchHistory #MaritimeHistory 🗃️

Oh hurrah! Fabulous colleague Colin Jones is on In Our Time (not (yet?) on this app, @simontillotson.bsky.social?) this week! With Michael Rowe & Heidi Mehrkens to talk about the Battle of Valmy & the French Revolution! <pokes @frenchhistory.bsky.social @fhp.bsky.social> #EarlyModern #Skystorians

Congratulations to our author Alex Paulin-Booth on being shortlisted for the @frenchhistory.bsky.social Book Prize 2024 with her book 'Time and radical politics in France' 🎉

And congratulations to the shortlisted authors for the SSFH First Book Prize: Benjamin Darnell, *Maritime Power and the Power of Money in Louis XIV’s France*; Alex Paulin-Booth, *Time and Radical Politics in France*; and Gemma Tidman, *The Emergence of Literature in Eighteenth-Century France* 🙌 👏 🙌

Congratulations to Lewis Wade (@wadehistory.bsky.social), winner of the Society for the Study of French History First Book Prize for *Privilege, Economy and State in Old Regime France* – announced at the SSFH (@frenchhistory.bsky.social) Douglas Johnson Lecture yesterday

2024 was a fascinating year for sport, history, and politics in France. A blog article I wrote for @frenchhistory.bsky.social about #Paris2024 Opening Ceremony has now been published on the journal website as part of a round table about the games: doi.org/10.1093/fh/c...

Just spotted the roundtable to which I contributed in @frenchhistory.bsky.social has gone live: "Roundtable: Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games" - worth a read if you're keen on reading historians responding to this global sports event 🗃 #skystorians doi.org/10.1093/fh/c...

Hello new followers! If you work in the field of french history, do please reply to this below and we will do our best to follow back. The volume of new followers has made this impossible from the notification tab! 🗃️

My book will be out in a few days. Might be of interest for those interested in French First World War History

🙋‍♀️ book on French translation history due out in a few days

Salut. I research eleventh-century maritime activity in Normandy.

New interview out today with @jenniferheuer.bsky.social for @princetonupress.bsky.social, talking more about her *brand new book* THE SOLDIER'S REWARD: LOVE AND WAR IN THE AGE OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION AND NAPOLEON 🗃️ Check out the interview here! press.princeton.edu/ideas/jennif...

Of course I work on French issues, from Napoléon until today, especially on international relations, intelligence and communication.

I write on the French (amongst others) in the Great War.

Bonjour! I work on French green politics and green policies in the 1980’s and 1990’s.

an occasional French historian, in case you want to follow

For anyone wanting to learn how the French army allowed almost 300 Moroccan women to be illegally trafficked to military brothels in France after World War II, a reminder that my article for @frenchhistory.bsky.social is still open-access. academic.oup.com/fh/article/3...

Register here: www.history.ac.uk/events/frenc...

Tonight I'll be at the IHR speaking on 'French, History, and Blogging: Reflections on the Tenth Anniversary of the French History Network' as part of a stellar line up with Daniel Gordon, @lrbobrien.bsky.social, @willpooley.bsky.social and Guillaume Yverneau. Online/in person at 17.30.

The French national geographical institution have just released online the Cassini maps (done by triangulation?) started in 1756 and not finished until after the revolution. www.ign.fr/institut/esp...