PGR ECR Spotlight: Rachel Eager
For our next interviewee the PGR ECR Spotlight swings on to illuminate Rachel Eager, a student doing fantastic work using textual/visual sources of emblem books
10 September 2025
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French History. Academia. PhD and Postdoc Life. In alliance with SSFH.
Serendipity in Historical Research: Understanding French Cloth in Early Modern Asian Markets
The story of my postdoctoral research started a decade ago as an undergraduate, writes Lewis Wade. Under the supervision of Helen Pfeifer at Cambridge, I
20 August 2025
Spotlight on Margaret Cook Andersen
Welcome to another edition of Historians Under the Spotlight — an occasional interview series that offers a snapshot from academics’ lives: their passions, interests and reading suggestions.
17 June 2025
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
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
