Date & Place: Monday 18 November, at the IHR, London. Speaker: Will Pooley (IHR Past and Present Fellow) Paper Title: The Long Tail of the Werewolf: Real Modern Monsters? Chair: Rob Priest (RHUL) Will Pooley is a 19th century historian who was recently awarded a doctorate for his thesis on the history of the body, folkore …
The National Archives, Paris : the Pierrefitte Site
by Dr Chris Millington, Lecturer in History at the University of Swansea, who originally posted this on his French History Online (Researching French History). — The National Archives (or the ‘modern’ section at least) have now moved to a new site at Pierrefitte-sur-Seine. The move caused some grumbling from the researchers that I spoke to – and …
French History @IHR: Rod Kedward and Richard Vinen discuss Daniel Lee’s ‘Petain’s Jewish Children’
Date & Place: Monday 3 November, at the IHR, London. Speakers: Daniel Lee, author (Oxford); Rod Kedward, discussant (University of Sussex); Richard Vinen, discussant (KCL) Paper Title: Book Launch for Petain’s Jewish Children by Daniel Lee with comments from Rod Kedward and Richard Vinen Chair: Ludivine Broch (Westminster) The Wolfson Room was bursting on Monday night, with over …
French Historians under the spotlight: Prof. Máire Cross
Welcome to ‘Under the spotlight’, the first of a series of monthly features on the French History Network blog. Each month we’ll post a short interview with a leading scholar of French History, showing a snapshot from academics’ lives: their passions, interests and reading suggestions – all summarised in less than ten minutes. To start …
French History @IHR: Noelle Plack on wine and taxes
Date & Place: Monday 3 October, at the IHR, London. Speaker: Noelle Plack (Newman) Paper Title: Drinking and rebelling: the problems of tax revolt, intoxication and social control in Revolutionary Paris, 1789-91 Chair: Iain Stewart (QMUL) It was a real joy to welcome Noelle Plack for our first Modern French History Seminar of 2014-15, where she gave an extremely engaging …
Scribblers United: The Unexpected Joys of Doodling
by Andrew Smith (UCL) — As a contemporary historian, I don’t see many illuminated manuscripts. I don’t see many handwritten sources either, if I’m honest. Much of what I end up looking at is in the tidy, typewritten order of the 1940s and beyond. One of the most unexpected joys, therefore, is discovering the marginalia …
A note from the SSFH Postgraduate Representatives
By Ellen Crabtree (Newcastle) and Lori Lee Oates (Exeter) — Welcome to the French History Network blog! This is just a note to introduce ourselves as the two postgraduate representatives on the Society for the Study of French History (SSFH) committee. The Society is keen to support the work of postgraduates who work on French …
French History Network Book Launch
Join us on 17 October 2014 to launch the FHN’s first edited volume, Broch& Carrol, France in an Era of Global War, 1914-45 (Palgrave, 2014) and the FHN Blog! Where? Fyvie Hall, 309 Regent Street, University of Westminster, London. When? 17 October 2014, from 15h to 18h30. Why? There will be drinks and nibbles after the event. But more seriously, come hear Robert Gildea, …
