Our letter to Trinity College Dublin Provost sent today 👇

Job opportunity! We are looking for no less than 3 PhD candidates investigating histories of enslavement, slavery and racialization through early modern court records from across the early modern European colonial (French, Portuguese and Spanish empires)👇iisg.amsterdam/en/blog/3-phd-…

This is happening on Tuesday at 4pm at Trinity Long Room Hub — I'm very much looking forward to returning to TCD Dept of French to give this year's Annual Lecture.

Congratulations to the editors of and contributors to

Early Modern Women's Mobility, Authority, and Agency Across the Spanish Empire
edited by Anne J. Cruz & Alejandra Franganillo Álvarez
aup.nl/en/book/978946…

Job klaxon - 13 month post (we give job security over the summer months) in Contemporary British History QUB History Apply now.

hrwebapp.qub.ac.uk/tlive_webrecru…

While nearly 500 managers and senior academics earn upwards of 100k, PhDs are forced to live below minimum wage.

And that amount is enough to give over 1,500 PhDs a living wage.

irishtimes.com/business/2023/…

Just found this article now. 490 staff members at Trinity College Dublin earn six figure sums, while at the other end of the scale, hourly-paid lecturers can earn less than €7000/year for what the university considers a full teaching load.

Make it make sense.

irishtimes.com/business/2023/…

We UCFL Early Career Academics (formerly UCML) invite anyone interested to the below session on ECA funding and fellowships :

Dubliners -- I'm giving the Annual Lecture in TCD Dept of French on Tuesday 30th April! Title is 'Learning French with Claude Mauger: the life and legacy of a seventeenth-century celebrity teacher', and I'd love to see you there. More details soon! @HistoryTCD Trinity Long Room Hub TCD Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Science

Academia: 'what do you want?'

Academics: 'a permanent job'

Academia: *creates Resilience and Wellness in an Age of Impermanence Officer*

From Hugh Capet to Eleanor of Aquitaine, the Capetian dynasty founded practices and institutions that endured until the French Revolution. Today Matthew Lewis finds out more about their dramatic story from Prof. Justine Firnhaber-Baker: eu1.hubs.ly/H08ftq40

libraries.uky.edu/news/revolutio…

The University of Kentucky is digitizing a very special collection of French Revolutionary to early 19c publications -- 'nearly 5000 political bulletins'!

Just one week to go - come and research any aspect of Parisian cultural history (broadly conceived) with me at Newcastle!

After the French Wars of Religion, a brave widow instigated the prosecution of a military captain who had committed horrific acts against the villagers who lived around her. Today Suzannah Lipscomb talks to Tom Hamilton about this remarkable story: eu1.hubs.ly/H07ZVQz0

Reminder of this opportunity to do a PhD with me and work on early modern emotions and children. I don’t bite (much), am keen on interdisciplinary methods, and good at creating development opportunities for students. #twitterstorians mq.edu.au/research/phd-a…

🇫🇷 Début de la restauration de la sculpture équestre de Louis XIV
🌍 Restoration of the equestrian sculpture of Louis XIV begins

A 3 year 17thc French job in Cambridge! jobs.ac.uk/job/DGR421/ass…

House of Lilies is out today in the UK!
It's been called ‘a mighty, panoramic history’ in The Telegraph's 5* review and 'one of the most entertaining popular history books published in recent years' in the Times. Even I am pretty happy with it.
penguin.co.uk/books/447110/h…

An actual medieval history job jobs.ac.uk/job/DGU934/ass…

SFHS invites submissions to the Natalie Zemon Davis Award
societyforfrenchhistoricalstudies.net