Andrew WM Smith
@smidbob.bsky.social
Historian of Modern France at QMUL
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Andrew WM Smith
@smidbob.bsky.social
· Oct 18
Manchester University Press - Terror and terroir
Terror and terroir - Browse and buy the Paperback edition of Terror and terroir by Andrew W. M. Smith
manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk
My first book - Terror and terroir: the winegrowers of the Languedoc & modern France - is about what happens when a region of monoculture goes through an economic transition, & the intersections of regional, national, & European identities & structures
manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526131898/
manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526131898/
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If you have graduate students working with medieval manuscripts this free online training might be useful 👇
www.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
www.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
Digital Tools for Manuscript Studies
www.sas.ac.uk
January 23, 2026 at 2:55 PM
If you have graduate students working with medieval manuscripts this free online training might be useful 👇
www.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
www.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
I spoke earlier on France24 about the ongoing progress of the French budget through the National Assembly, and the return of article 49.3
www.france24.com/en/video/202...
www.france24.com/en/video/202...
'Walking centrist line: Far right says budget too socialist, far left says budget as too right-wing'
www.france24.com
January 23, 2026 at 6:49 PM
I spoke earlier on France24 about the ongoing progress of the French budget through the National Assembly, and the return of article 49.3
www.france24.com/en/video/202...
www.france24.com/en/video/202...
Reminder that we have a live CFP for our @uclpress.bsky.social Open Access publication Paper Trails. We are looking for material related to 'Difficult Collections' - deadline for proposals 31 Jan. You can find more info here: blogs.ucl.ac.uk/special-coll...
🗃️ #skystorians
🗃️ #skystorians
January 22, 2026 at 3:01 PM
Reminder that we have a live CFP for our @uclpress.bsky.social Open Access publication Paper Trails. We are looking for material related to 'Difficult Collections' - deadline for proposals 31 Jan. You can find more info here: blogs.ucl.ac.uk/special-coll...
🗃️ #skystorians
🗃️ #skystorians
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History Workshop Journal's 100th Issue: a celebration
Celebration of HWJ's 100th edition
www.bbk.ac.uk
January 21, 2026 at 1:24 PM
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Have you completed a PhD in the last 10 years? Applications are open for our Postdoctoral Visiting Fellowship in Sustainability and Environment. Funding covers an £8000 bursary for part-time (0.5) research over 8 months, plus travel expenses. Apply by Monday 9 February. link.bl.uk/VisitingFellowship
January 14, 2026 at 12:48 PM
Have you completed a PhD in the last 10 years? Applications are open for our Postdoctoral Visiting Fellowship in Sustainability and Environment. Funding covers an £8000 bursary for part-time (0.5) research over 8 months, plus travel expenses. Apply by Monday 9 February. link.bl.uk/VisitingFellowship
Ooh, this was "unconfirmed" only a week or so ago! Shifting contexts, clearly
U.S. diplomats asked a French magistrate last year whether she could intervene over Marine Le Pen’s election ban.
The previously unreported details of the meeting will refocus attention on American efforts to back the European far right.
🔗 #[politi.co/4qxwpy9
The previously unreported details of the meeting will refocus attention on American efforts to back the European far right.
🔗 #[politi.co/4qxwpy9
January 21, 2026 at 1:34 PM
Ooh, this was "unconfirmed" only a week or so ago! Shifting contexts, clearly
I wrote an article a while back on Franco-British relations, the challenges of the American alliance, and European Defence in the midst of a diplomatic crisis (in 1954) which you can read in @frenchhistory.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1093/fh/c...
doi.org/10.1093/fh/c...
Crises of commemoration: Cold War, decolonization and the bungled 1954 D-Day commemoration
Abstract. In 1954, international dignitaries and veterans joined the commemoration of the Allied landings on the beaches of Normandy, though not everything
doi.org
January 20, 2026 at 11:04 AM
I wrote an article a while back on Franco-British relations, the challenges of the American alliance, and European Defence in the midst of a diplomatic crisis (in 1954) which you can read in @frenchhistory.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1093/fh/c...
doi.org/10.1093/fh/c...
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:
www.youtube.com/@societyfort...
🗃️#skystorians
www.youtube.com/@societyfort...
🗃️#skystorians
Society for the Study of French History
www.youtube.com
January 16, 2026 at 4:05 PM
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:
www.youtube.com/@societyfort...
🗃️#skystorians
www.youtube.com/@societyfort...
🗃️#skystorians
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QM's Deanna Lyncook @deannalyncook.bsky.social speaking at Black British History seminar on 22 Jan about Norman Manley's visits to Britain and transnational care www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
“You are not to allow yourselves to be frightened”, Norman Manley’s Visits to Britain and Transnational Care in Post-war Britain
www.history.ac.uk
January 16, 2026 at 12:50 PM
QM's Deanna Lyncook @deannalyncook.bsky.social speaking at Black British History seminar on 22 Jan about Norman Manley's visits to Britain and transnational care www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
Here's a clip:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=QVdF...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=QVdF...
January 16, 2026 at 11:23 AM
Here's a clip:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=QVdF...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=QVdF...
Up bright and early this morning to speak to France24 about the meetings organised this weekend to work more on the Bougival agreements in New Caledonia with political parties (except FLNKS)
January 16, 2026 at 7:00 AM
Up bright and early this morning to speak to France24 about the meetings organised this weekend to work more on the Bougival agreements in New Caledonia with political parties (except FLNKS)
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Interested in the intersection between policymaking, especially in the UK, and academic research? Come work with us! The @mileendinstitute.bsky.social at @qmulsse.bsky.social is advertising for a new Policy Partnerships Officer. Details and application here:
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Policy Partnerships Officer - QMUL Jobs
ID: 8276. Title: Policy Partnerships Officer. Application Deadline:
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January 15, 2026 at 1:00 PM
Interested in the intersection between policymaking, especially in the UK, and academic research? Come work with us! The @mileendinstitute.bsky.social at @qmulsse.bsky.social is advertising for a new Policy Partnerships Officer. Details and application here:
qmul-jobs.tal.net/vx/mobile-0/...
qmul-jobs.tal.net/vx/mobile-0/...
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"This is history at its most fun, immersive, human and revelatory." - Juliet Nicolson in The Spectator.
A Shellshocked Nation is published next week. (Available for pre-ordering now, of course.)
A Shellshocked Nation is published next week. (Available for pre-ordering now, of course.)
January 15, 2026 at 12:31 PM
"This is history at its most fun, immersive, human and revelatory." - Juliet Nicolson in The Spectator.
A Shellshocked Nation is published next week. (Available for pre-ordering now, of course.)
A Shellshocked Nation is published next week. (Available for pre-ordering now, of course.)
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I have tried, repeatedly and professionally and very carefully, to explain the ticking timebomb of reputational damage here to university leaders. Even now my institution posts to X as if nothing has changed.
💥New: UK academia’s presence on X is reaching a tipping point
✍️ @andytattersall.bsky.social
#X #AcademicSocialMedia #AcademicSky
✍️ @andytattersall.bsky.social
#X #AcademicSocialMedia #AcademicSky
UK academia’s presence on X is reaching a tipping point - Impact of Social Sciences
Data collected on UK universities’ use of social media shows academic engagement with X is at a tipping point with more institutions off the platform than on.
blogs.lse.ac.uk
January 15, 2026 at 9:47 AM
I have tried, repeatedly and professionally and very carefully, to explain the ticking timebomb of reputational damage here to university leaders. Even now my institution posts to X as if nothing has changed.
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Next up, Richard Vinen's 'Winston Churchill and France: A Certain Ideal', OA, doi.org/10.1111/1468...
January 15, 2026 at 10:05 AM
Next up, Richard Vinen's 'Winston Churchill and France: A Certain Ideal', OA, doi.org/10.1111/1468...
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There should be grave national concern about one of Britain’s leading economic sectors and chief export earners shedding tens of thousands of often skilled relatively well paid jobs. Universities are also key to local and regional economies across the country.
Pay-off spend up by two-thirds as universities shed 13,000 jobs
Analysis of UK sector accounts shows number of job losses well above predictions, with experts warning cuts are not over yet
www.timeshighereducation.com
January 15, 2026 at 8:11 AM
There should be grave national concern about one of Britain’s leading economic sectors and chief export earners shedding tens of thousands of often skilled relatively well paid jobs. Universities are also key to local and regional economies across the country.
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Now extended to the 30th January we hear! 🗃️
The deadline for the CFP for the upcoming SSFH conference in Groningen on the theme of 'Peace and Justice' is 15 January! (This reminder as much to myself as to the rest of you!)
@frenchhistory.bsky.social
🗃️ #skystorians
www.rug.nl/research/ico...
@frenchhistory.bsky.social
🗃️ #skystorians
www.rug.nl/research/ico...
January 14, 2026 at 4:02 PM
Now extended to the 30th January we hear! 🗃️
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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. 🗃️
Come for ‘blogs build academic communities’, stay for the COVID diaries. 🗃️
Blogging (French) history: conversations and reflections amongst historians
Abstract. In 2014, the French History Network Blog was launched with the aim of ‘connecting people and ideas’. Ten years later, it has shared hundreds of b
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January 14, 2026 at 4:01 PM
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. 🗃️
Come for ‘blogs build academic communities’, stay for the COVID diaries. 🗃️
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The Derek Keene #London #Lecture 2026 is open for (free) booking! Join us on Weds 24 June to hear Thomas Asbridge on the #BlackDeath in London, drawing on his new book. The lecture forms a focal point of our annual @ihr.bsky.social #SummerSchool, this year focused on #London 'Sickness & Health'.
January 14, 2026 at 9:23 AM
The Derek Keene #London #Lecture 2026 is open for (free) booking! Join us on Weds 24 June to hear Thomas Asbridge on the #BlackDeath in London, drawing on his new book. The lecture forms a focal point of our annual @ihr.bsky.social #SummerSchool, this year focused on #London 'Sickness & Health'.
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Talitha Ilacqua has won the Society for the Study of French History Book Prize for her book *Inventing the Modern Region: Basque Identity and the French Nation-State* (MUP, 2024). Congratulations!!
frenchhistorysociety.co.uk/prizes/winne...
@manchesterup.bsky.social
@frenchhistory.bsky.social
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@manchesterup.bsky.social
@frenchhistory.bsky.social
Winners of the SSFH Book Prize – SSFH
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January 14, 2026 at 1:55 PM
Talitha Ilacqua has won the Society for the Study of French History Book Prize for her book *Inventing the Modern Region: Basque Identity and the French Nation-State* (MUP, 2024). Congratulations!!
frenchhistorysociety.co.uk/prizes/winne...
@manchesterup.bsky.social
@frenchhistory.bsky.social
frenchhistorysociety.co.uk/prizes/winne...
@manchesterup.bsky.social
@frenchhistory.bsky.social
RN's defence has moved on from the 'sorry you feel that way' of the trial, to 'well no-one ever told me I was out of line' at the appeal
Au premier jour de son procès en appel, Marine Le Pen change sa ligne de défense
Au premier jour de son procès en appel, Marine Le Pen change sa ligne de défense
La députée du Pas-de-Calais, condamnée en première instance à quatre ans de prison et cinq ans d’inéligibilité dans l’affaire des emplois fictifs d’assistants d’eurodéputés, a cessé de clamer son innocence pour admettre qu’elle avait peut-être involontairement commis un délit, mais que le Parlement européen n’avait jamais donné l’alerte
www.lemonde.fr
January 14, 2026 at 9:08 AM
RN's defence has moved on from the 'sorry you feel that way' of the trial, to 'well no-one ever told me I was out of line' at the appeal
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VERY excited we get to discuss Mélanie Lamotte's book @ihreurope1500.bsky.social with @lrhodges.bsky.social & @juliehardwick.bsky.social and Mélanie herself!
18 May, 17:30 @ihr.bsky.social
Get your copy @harvardpress.bsky.social: www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...
#EarlyModern #SkyStorians
18 May, 17:30 @ihr.bsky.social
Get your copy @harvardpress.bsky.social: www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...
#EarlyModern #SkyStorians
January 13, 2026 at 2:22 PM
VERY excited we get to discuss Mélanie Lamotte's book @ihreurope1500.bsky.social with @lrhodges.bsky.social & @juliehardwick.bsky.social and Mélanie herself!
18 May, 17:30 @ihr.bsky.social
Get your copy @harvardpress.bsky.social: www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...
#EarlyModern #SkyStorians
18 May, 17:30 @ihr.bsky.social
Get your copy @harvardpress.bsky.social: www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...
#EarlyModern #SkyStorians
Enjoyed teaching at @sas-news.bsky.social today on the intercollegiate MA Translation across cultures. I'm doing a couple of sessions on the materiality and temporarily module, talking about objects and empire in France
January 13, 2026 at 6:44 PM
Enjoyed teaching at @sas-news.bsky.social today on the intercollegiate MA Translation across cultures. I'm doing a couple of sessions on the materiality and temporarily module, talking about objects and empire in France
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It's out! This new article by me and my wonderful collaborator Charlotte Ann Legg looks at race, labour and affinities of whiteness in New Caledonia and Australia around the time of the White Australia policy. Part of our special issue on Connected Histories of Empire: France, Britain & the Pacific🗃️
January 13, 2026 at 1:24 AM
It's out! This new article by me and my wonderful collaborator Charlotte Ann Legg looks at race, labour and affinities of whiteness in New Caledonia and Australia around the time of the White Australia policy. Part of our special issue on Connected Histories of Empire: France, Britain & the Pacific🗃️
Genuinely delighted we were able to follow our annual French History lecture with a full Galette des Rois (including some under table slice allocation)
yas king (of the galette)
crowning an evening kicked off by @renaudmorieux.bsky.social wonderful SSFH/ASMCF annual lecture on dislocated families in India during the age of revolutions
#GaletteDesRois
crowning an evening kicked off by @renaudmorieux.bsky.social wonderful SSFH/ASMCF annual lecture on dislocated families in India during the age of revolutions
#GaletteDesRois
January 12, 2026 at 10:59 PM
Genuinely delighted we were able to follow our annual French History lecture with a full Galette des Rois (including some under table slice allocation)