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 sereis will focus on shining a light onto our rich cohort of Post-Graduates and Early Career Researchers, offering an exciting view of up-and-coming scholars in the field; their passions, interests, […]

Intimate relationships: historians, the past, and their subjects

In this fourth post in a series of reflections on the New Directions in French History Conference in London in September, Laura O’Brien (Lecturer, Northumbria University) addresses questions of how historians relate to their subjects.   I’m sure that my colleagues and students are bored to tears with my tendency of late to preface conversation with: ‘I was at […]