The SSFH conference bursary is now covering requests up to 500£ for PGs to attend the SSFH annual conference! frenchhistorysociety.co.uk/grants/confe... so submit your proposals and join us in Groningen this summer! frenchhistorysociety.co.uk/conference2/

Just uploaded a recording of the SSFH Douglas Johnson lecture to the society's youtube channel. You can explore some past lectures there as well:

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This roundtable from @lmebroch.bsky.social @alisoncarrol.bsky.social Daniel Gordon and Laura O’Brien on blogging French History is free to read until the end of February doi.org/10.1093/fh/c...

Come for ‘blogs build academic communities’, stay for the COVID diaries. 🗃️

Things I liked in 2025: holding my second book! Nitti’s 1944 account of his escape from a train to Dachau is beautifully translated by Martin Sorrell and I wrote a (very) long introduction on Vichy France, Nitti, and the sensory history of deportation. www.pen-and-sword.co.uk/The-Phantom-...

Join us next Monday at @institutfrancaisdk.bsky.social Prof Renaud Morieux (Cambridge) speaking on Dislocated Families in Âge of Revolutions! Book here frenchhistorysociety.co.uk/douglas-john... drinks & canapés @asmcf.bsky.social @smidbob.bsky.social @royalhistsoc.org @hfrancewebsite.bsky.social

Morning sunlight over Caen - mixing in business with a short run around the chateau

At @orleansparkschool.bsky.social giving a talk about Careers in the Humanities - can’t wait to meet the students and hear what they think! @wminhumanities.bsky.social #welovethehumanities

"Slaves in Paris: A Digital Mapping Project" - a partnership between Miranda Spieler and Colonial Networks slavesinparis.org. Created with the support of our Kress Foundation Digital Art History Grant. Officially launched today in Paris at #GCFHSResist

When Nicolas Moll and Sarah Farmer give fabulous talks about French resistance, transnational trajectories and communists and you get to chair and it’s a packed house #GCFHSResist

Excellent panel on Allies and French Resistance where we talk about material culture, biographies, and helpers in 2WW. #GCFHSResist feat Guillaume Piketty, Claire Andrieu & Raphaële Bali

Gearing up for the first day of #GCFHSResist

When people ask us what the material in Mass Observation is like, we're just going to start showing them this now

Two weeks ago I was in New Orleans reading the Merci Train papers in New Orleans at the Museum of Jazz - sometimes you travel far to see only a slim folder but it’s so worth it

D-Day in D.C. continues to amaze! Randomly caught a bit of the great documentary DDay: The Unheard Tapes showing on History Chanel www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m... very strange seeing myself play rock paper scissors on national tv @wminhumanities.bsky.social

Daniel Gordon and I have released a new podcast episode which revisits LA HAINE - which is 30 years old! rss.com/podcasts/fre... Very useful for French A-Level students/teachers - special thanks to @ilotem.bsky.social, Florence and Louisa for their insights @wminhumanities.bsky.social

Explore a reading list on the #SecondWorldWar featuring books by @nickhewitt4.bsky.social, @alanallport.bsky.social, @drkatevigurs.bsky.social, @hdiamond.bsky.social & more

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Am running the Out of Storage session today at Smithsonian National Museum of American History! 2-4pm come stop by to discover their objects related to Franco-American relations - includes precious Jacquard textiles from Merci Train americanhistory.si.edu/events/calen... @wminhumanities.bsky.social

Another day, Another archive. Took AmTrak down to Richmond, Virginia to see their Merci Train file and private papers of David FE Bruce (who made some excellent wine recommendations in his correspondence…) also: Founding Fathers magnet. My heart is full.

My first time at the Library of Congress & I already can’t wait to come back. Met friendliest archivists, had delicious lunch, and finding incredible photographs of Merci Train. Even used the magnifying glass and found some real hidden treasures in them. @librarycobg also: love a fancy corridor…

My office for the day! At the Smithsonian National Museum of American History to give a talk on the Merci Train to the curators & specialists here in prep of the exhibition A Story of Gratitude I’m co-curating w/ Amanda Moniz in 2027 - EXCITED @wminhumanities.bsky.social @smithsonianmag.bsky.social

Come do a PhD with us at @wminhumanities.bsky.social on Black Caribbean men and women in 2WW UK - a project which combines archives, photographs and community engagement. @saradominici.bsky.social, Pippa Catterall and myself as supervisors. Click on link below deadline late May!

Can’t remember why I gave this chapter such a long-winded title but THRILLED to announce MINIATURES-Reader in history of everyday life is OUT www.exeterpress.co.uk/products/min... ed. by Kate Ferris & Huw Halstead and where I have a chapter on an obscure seashell box @wminhumanities.bsky.social

Another of our history first years @wminhumanities.bsky.social is studying cholera in 19C Britain for their research project - thanks for this list which they will find so useful! And delighted our students are picking up
Cutting edge topics!

One of our first year students @wminhumanities.bsky.social wants to study women in SOE for her research project - the perfect introduction into the topic!

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