Spotlight on Helen M. Davies
Welcome to another edition of Historians Under the Spotlight — an occasional interview series that offers a snapshot from academics’ lives: their passions, interests, and
22 January 2026
FRENCH HISTORY NETWORK BLOG
French History. Academia. PhD and Postdoc Life. In alliance with SSFH.
CFP SSFH 2026: Peace and Justice, Groningen, 30 June-2 July – deadline extended!
Join us in the Netherlands this summer! The 39th Annual Conference of the Society for the Study of French History will take place at the University
15 January 2026
ECR in 2025: Advice to ECRS, a response
In this, the final blogpost of three in this series (see part 1 and part 2), Lewis Wade responds to a post on advice for
2 October 2025
ECR in 2025: Part Three- Advice to ECRs
For this new series of collaborative blog posts, early career researchers (ECRs) in French history in the UK were invited to reflect on their recent
1 October 2025
ECR in 2025: What can be done? A response
In this, the second blogpost of three in this series (part 1 can be found here), Lewis Wade responds to the second ECR in 2025 post
25 September 2025
ECR in 2025: Part Two- What can be done?
For this new series of collaborative blog posts, early career researchers (ECRs) in French history in the UK were invited to reflect on their recent
24 September 2025
ECR in 2025: What is it like? A Response
In this post, Lewis Wade responds to the first post in the new series ECR in 2025, which you can read here. I was delighted
18 September 2025
ECR in 2025: Part One- What is it like?
For this new series of collaborative blog posts, early career researchers (ECRs) in French history in the UK were invited to reflect on their recent
17 September 2025
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
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
