Elisabeth Salje on Venal Forestry Officers
In the latest in our Hors d’Oeuvres series, we caught up with Elisabeth Salje to talk about her new article in French History. Elisabeth’s MA (2016) and PhD (2021) theses at Birkbeck College on French Ancien Régime forestry politics focussed on the social and professional behaviour of venal forestry officers. She is now working on […]
Robespierre speaks!
Revisiting the Testimony of 9 Thermidor (27 July 1794) We are delighted to feature this guest blog from Professor Colin Jones FBA CBE. Colin has published widely on the French Revolution and the history of medicine. His latest book, The Fall of Robespierre: 24 Hours in Revolutionary Paris, published by Oxford University Press, will appear […]
French History @IHR: Jonathan Smyth on Revelation & Revolution in France 1730-1830
Date and Place: Monday 27th January 2019 in the Chadwick Building, UCL Speaker: Jonathan Smyth (Birkbeck) Paper Title: Revelation & Revolution in France 1730-1830 Chair: Andrew WM Smith In this wide-ranging paper, Jonathan Smyth explored his new project building on his previous book Robespierre and the Festival of the Supreme Being (Manchester University Press, 2018). […]
French History @IHR: Joseph Clarke on Providence and Politics in Revolutionary France
Date and Place: Monday 18th November 2019 in the IOE, Bedford Way, Room 728 Speaker: Joseph Clarke (Trinity College Dublin) Paper Title: Making Sense of Revolution – Providence and Politics in Revolutionary France Chair: Andrew WM Smith On 18 November 2019, the IHR Modern French history seminar welcomed Dr Joseph Clarke from Trinity College Dublin, […]
French History @IHR: Marisa Linton on Rethinking the Terror
Date & Place: Monday 10th May, in the IOE Bedford Way, Room 784. Speakers: Professor Marisa Linton (Kingston) Paper Title: 230 Years Since the Revolution: Time to Rethink the Terror? To listen to a recording of the event, click here (right click to save as MP3) Professor Marisa Linton offered this paper surveying the legacy of the Revolution […]
French History @IHR: Sudhir Hazareesingh (Oxford), Rethinking Toussaint L’Ouverture
Date & Place: Monday 14th May, in the Wolfson Room NB02, IHR Basement, North block, Senate House Speakers: Sudhir Hazareesingh (Oxford) Paper Title: Rethinking Toussaint L’Ouverture Chair: Andrew WM Smith (University of Chichester) To listen to a recording of the event, click here (right click to save as MP3) Toussaint L’Ouverture is an important and much mythologized […]
French Historians under the spotlight: Malcolm Crook
Welcome to Under the Spotlight, a monthly interview series which offers a snapshot from academics’ lives: their passions, interests and reading suggestions – all summarised in less than ten minutes. You can catch up with previous posts here. Malcolm Crook is Emeritus Professor of French History at the University of Keele and a past president […]
French Historians under the spotlight: PhD takeover II
Welcome to ‘under the spotlight’, a monthly interview series which offers a snapshot from academics’ lives: their passions, interests and reading suggestions – all summarised in less than ten minutes. You can catch up with previous posts here. To tie in with the Annual Postgraduate Study Day, this month’s interview is a Postgraduate takeover! We […]
French History @ IHR: Reliving the Terror
Date & Place: Monday 23 January, Pollard Room, IHR, North block, Senate House Speaker: Alex Fairfax-Cholmeley (University of Exeter) Paper Title: Reliving the Terror: print culture, revolutionary history, divided communities during the later 1790s Alex Fairfax-Cholmeley came to the IHR recently to give a riveting paper on the impact of the 1793-94 Terror on the ‘late 1790s’. Fairfax-Cholmeley […]
French History @ IHR: David Andress on Globalizing French History in the Age of Revolutions
Date & Place: Monday 16 May, in the Wolfson Room NB02, IHR Basement, North block, Senate House Speakers: Professor David Andress (Portsmouth) Paper Title: Globalizing French History in the Age of Revolutions: necessary step, or step too far? (1763-1848) Chair: Professor Colin Jones (QMUL) The nation remains one of the most adaptable, creative, and dangerous appeals in […]
