Five esteemed guest speakers gathered together on Monday 21 March 2022 to discuss the ins & outs of the French Presidential elections in 2022. Listen…
Sam Dobbie is a final year post graduate researcher at the University of Glasgow. Her research focuses on female agency in revolutionary Paris between 1789 and 1793, and seeks to combine theories of revolution with gender theories to determine the importance of women’s agency on the process of the French Revolution. Here she talks about using the Internet Archive digital library.
The sea has always fascinated historians. In these two papers, our guest speakers use the sea, its ‘inhabitants’ and its port cities to rethink political,…
What did it mean to live in urban environments in nineteenth-century France? What was it like, including for those on the margins of society, those…
Sarah Lund (Harvard University) works on female printmakers during the long revolutionary period of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century France. Here, she discusses her research at the Graphic Arts department of the Louvre Museum in Paris.
Claire MacLeod (St Andrews) won the SSFH Undergraduate Dissertation Prize in 2022. Her dissertation was highly praised by the UG Dissertation Prize panel, who described…
This seminar has been organised in collaboration with the University of Warwick’s Early Modern and Eighteenth Century Centre. The IHR Modern French history seminar is…
On this day (9th January) 1873, Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte, former French Emperor Napoleon III, nephew of Emperor Napoleon I, died at Camden Place in Kent, now…
IMAGES: PAST & PRESENT ASMCF-SSFH Postgraduate Study Day 2022 A virtual study day to be held on 23 April 2022 Keynote: To Be Confirmed What…
Panagiotis Georgakakis is a fourth year PhD candidate in the School of History, Reformation Studies at the University of St. Andrews. Here he talks about his research on Huguenot gazettes at the University of Leiden library and the Bibliothèque nationale de France.
