PGR ECR Spotlight: Lauren Robbins
In our next installment of our PGR/ECR Spotlight, showcasing some of our upcoming members and scholars of French History the society is proud to introduce
2 June 2025
FRENCH HISTORY NETWORK BLOG
French History. Academia. PhD and Postdoc Life. In alliance with SSFH.
Thanks to all who attended the SSFH-ASMCF Post Graduate Study Day.
The society would like to celebrate our first in-person Post-Graduate Study Day since the pandemic. The annual postgraduate study day is one we always look
27 May 2025
Paper Trails: Entente Cordiale and Franco-British collections
Ten years after the Liberation of France, relations between the Republic and her British neighbours were sometimes fractious. Yet this was also the 50th anniversary
4 April 2025
PGR-ECR Spotlight: Anthony Chapman-Joy
The Society is pleased to annnounce the beginning of a new series on this blog. A spin off from our regular Historian spotlights, this current
14 January 2025
French Talk: New Podcast Aimed at Teachers and Students of French
Dr Ludivine Broch (Westminster) and Dr Daniel Gordon (Edge Hill) have co-created a new podcast aimed at teachers and students of French at GCSE and
29 November 2024
Paris 2024: Breaking at the Olympics: formidable or a misfire? Rachel Anne Gillett
As an historian, attending the women’s breaking qualifiers at Concorde Urban Park in Paris, Friday 9 October 2024, took on an added dimension. I was
7 October 2024
Paris 2024: A Call for a ‘Disability Revolution’, Corinne Doria
On the evening of 28 August, the Place de la Concorde in Paris hosted the Summer Paralympic Games opening ceremony. Music, dance, fireworks, and inspirational
5 September 2024
Paris 2024: ‘City of Flight’ or why the Olympic balloon seems so at home in Paris, Patrick Luiz Sullivan De Oliveira
The Paris 2024 Olympics Opening Ceremony was remarkable in its scale. Rather than constricting the events to a stadium, as had been the case since
4 September 2024
The Requin-ing: Netflix’s Sous la Seine and the Age of Human Disaster
In this guest post, Venus Bivar and Roxanne Panchasi reflect on the recent Netflix film ‘Sous la Seine’ in the context of the recent Paris
13 August 2024
Paris 2024: Paradoxes of the Opening Ceremony, Jonathan Ervine
7000 athletes on 85 boats, 2000 performers, and music from singers such as Lady Gaga, Aya Nakamura, and Céline Dion. And then there was the
8 August 2024
