Am loving this series of blog posts about Paris 2024 on the FHN blog frenchhistorysociety.co.uk/blog/ which puts the preparations and performances in context. The latest addition on sharks in the Seine by r_panchasi and @VBivar is fantastic - Team Lilith! SSFH

#frenchhistory - the imbrication of metropolitan artisans in the French slavery empire is such an important story.

JOB Alert - tenured position in the history of the British Empire. Please feel free to be in touch if you have any questions.

Delighted to announce the publication of a new book: French Revolutionary Lives, edited by Colin Jones and myself. It is available online for those with access and will be available in print in October. It offers new perspectives on the Revolution through... /1

C’est un livre commencé en novembre 2015. Neuf années d’enquête, de doutes et de travail. Survivre sort aujourd’hui en librairie : j’y parle de la vie en condition d’incertitude radicale, quand on ne peut plus se fier ni aux gens, ni aux choses, ni à l’espace, ni à la langue.

📆 Our short courses are returning! Hone your palaeography skills with our lecturers, Dr Manuel Muñoz-Garcia and Dr Arnold Hunt, in 2 online courses, each running from 25/11/24 - 6/12/24. Applications opening soon. Listen to Yvette's testimonial here:👉tiny.cc/tjmlzz

Massive congratulations to Dr Alex Barber and Dr Katie East on the release of their new book Radical Ideas and the Crisis of Christianity in England, 1640-1740: The Politics of Religion. Click to find out more: boydellandbrewer.com/9781837651825/… Boydell & Brewer IMEMS Durham Newcastle University

It's out! 'Migrant Voices in Multilingual London, 1560-1600' in Transactions of the Royal Historical Society. Read to find out how insults and information moved between the city's languages, and to think about how linguistic diversity shaped urban life. cambridge.org/core/journals/…

Congratulations to all of our shortlisted authors for your brilliant books: you are all awesome! Unfortunately, there can be only one winner, & the winner of the SRS Book Prize 2024 is @Carlatroth for "Talk of the Town: Information and Community in Sixteenth-Century Switzerland"

Have you seen that Cathy McClive and Lisa Smith's recent article in 'French History' won the best article prize from the Society for the Study of Early Modern Women and Gender? 🙌🥳🥂

This summer Ludmilla Jordanova (Emeritus Prof. of History and Visual Culture) gave a major lecture on the 300th anniversary of the Regius Professorship Cambridge History, and you can watch it here: youtube.com/watch?v=sr5FGG…

I am excited to introduce my book to the world officially at the Institute of Historical Research next Monday, 21 October, both in person and online; and I look forward to the comments by Andrew WM Smith

Absolutely thrilled to celebrate publication day for this new resource 🎉🥳 After being asked by both the policy community and academic colleagues FOR YEARS ‘What does good policy engagement with A&H research look like?’, here are case studies & advice which I hope will help.

For my international colleagues who are wondering what the heck is going in in the Netherlands: Dutch Academia is facing the largest budget cuts since the 1980s. Programs will disappear, work load will go up, students will be penalised. It's grim 1/x

At last, the cat is out of the bag: it's publication day of 'Heraldry in Urban Society: Visual Culture and Communication in Late Medieval England and Germany' (academic.oup.com/book/58666)! Coincidentally both cats and bags feature, among many other things...

Today, in Wonkhe, RHS President Emma Griffin discusses 'The Value of History', Royal Historical Society's new briefing: bit.ly/3YK9YZZ. Emma's article introduces the findings of a recent RHS survey of UK #history depts and why many now face cuts & closures #twitterstorians 1/5👇

#CheminsDHistoire, épisode 201, avec Jérémie Foa, Anakroniks ! Une nouvelle histoire des #GuerresDeReligion, Éditions du Seuil, une discussion dense et portée - reconnaissons-le - par une amitié au long cours ! cheminsdhistoire.fr/emission201/

Thank you Diane Roussel and Criminocorpus for such an interesting conversation!

This is a really brilliant article on such an important topic – congratulations again Cathy and Lisa!