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French History (Journal)
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French History is an international forum for major new articles on the entire range of French history from the early middle ages to the twenty-first century.
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An update from the other place. We are happy to say that we will be posting here instead.
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February 12, 2025 at 8:03 AM
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“I was arrested twice and put in gaol for nothing more radical than walking in the Latin Quarter with long hair.”

Colin Jones on how he became a historian of France in this NEW @ageofrevolutions.bsky.social blog about the latest issue of French History:

ageofrevolutions.com/2024/05/27/r... 🗃️
Third, I spent 1969-70 in Paris and besides all the political excitement of the times - I was arrested twice and put in gaol for nothing more radical than walking in the Latin Quarter with long hair - I started going to the Archives Nationales, then located in the Salle Soubise of the Hôtel Soubise and working on primary sources for an undergraduate dissertation. I remember thinking: I love this; I hope I can go on and do more of it.
May 28, 2024 at 8:26 AM
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We caught up with Ludivine Broch to hear the surprising story of the gratitude train sent by France to America after WWII.

You can read more about this in the latest issues of the journal!

frenchhistorysociety.co.uk/6290/

🗃️#FRHistorians
Black and white photograph shows a single train carriage with Train de la Reconnaissance written across it. A crowd including solider in uniform and men in suits looks towards the train as a dignitary fixes something on or opens the train. Photograph of boxcar from French "Merci train," a gift from France to the United States in grateful recognition of U.S. aid to France after World War II, during a ceremony. 6 February 1949. Harry S. Truman Library (NLHST), 500 West U.S. Highway 24, Independence, MO, 64050-1798. National Archives and Records Administration, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
April 8, 2024 at 3:20 PM
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We are delighted that the new forum 'Disability History in France' is free to read for the next month. We caught up with contributors @rebeccapscales.bsky.social @jessiehewitt.bsky.social and Jonathyne Briggs to hear more! 🗃️ #FRHistory

frenchhistorysociety.co.uk/6267/
Black and white print of the French sign language alphabet, showing how to make the letters by hand. It includes images of the abbés L'Épée (top right) and Sicard (top left). The text at the bottom reads 'Charles Michel de l'Épée, né à Versailles, le 25 November 1712 institua l'enseignement des Sourds-Muets en 1760. Il mourut à Paris le 25 Novembre 1789. Vue loi des 21 et 29 Juillet érigea en Insitution Nationale l'Établissement qu'il avait fondé à ses frais.
March 14, 2024 at 8:04 AM
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(alt text continues for the same image): the folklorist in me can’t help pointing out that there’s a folktale lurking behind this anecdote (ATU756C* to be precise). And that says something about the relationship of culture, in this case lacemakers’ oral culture, to experience, because such things did happen.
March 11, 2024 at 11:34 AM
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This example comes not from France but from the English Midlands, and specifically a story told by John Plummer, a ‘worker-poet’, in an 1878 article on the lace industry for the Northampton Mercury: … a lacemaker died and after the funeral a claim was made for certain moneys alleged to be owing. The daughter was convinced that the claim had been satisfied, but the receipt was nowhere to be found. An execution was put in, when a struggle took place for the ‘pillow,’ which the daughter was determined to retain as a memento of her deceased parent. During the fray the outer covering became torn, and out fell a folded piece of paper, which proved to be the missing receipt. The novelist Ignazio Silone says somewhere that the anecdote is working-class philosophy: there is quite a lot conveyed in this short narrative: the lace-pillow as an intimate object where lacemakers’ kept secrets, as a physical embodiment of lacemaker's relationships. But the folklorist in me can't help [...]
March 11, 2024 at 11:33 AM
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"The novelist Ignazio Silone says somewhere that the anecdote is working-class philosophy"

We talked with David Hopkin about his new #OA article on lacemakers, tools, stories.

#FRHistory 🗃️ #Lace
frenchhistorysociety.co.uk/6185/

Image: Giacomo Ceruti, Women Working on Pillow Lace w.wiki/89PW
Oil painting shows a group of women and young girls sitting and making lace. Most look absorbed in their work. The youngest sits on a small chair and is the only one not making lace.
March 11, 2024 at 7:56 AM
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"Fortune-telling with cards has a history, and it’s not just the history of the famous occultists of the 18th and 19th centuries (who were pretty much all men)."

We caught up with @willpooley.bsky.social to talk about his article in the latest issue of French History...
and procrastination 🗃️
Tarot de Marseille card 'Le Jugement' from BNF Gallica. https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b10537348r
March 4, 2024 at 10:38 AM
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Are you interested in French and francophone histories of any period?
We are looking to build our network on here!
#FRhistory 🗃️
Screenshot of the journal homepage with banner title reading French History, front cover of the journal with an image from the Marche pour l’égalité and the list of editors: Claire Eldridge, Tom Hamilton and associate editors: Erika Graham-Goering, Will Pooley
March 1, 2024 at 11:15 AM
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(end of alt text) From steering virtual issues through to production, updating (and decrypting) the journal's style guide and enhancing its social media presence to extending the scope of its reviews section to embrace cultural events, exhibitions and other media alongside our traditional fare, they have all worked to expand and diversify French History's content and their insights and initiative have been invaluable. Above all, I owe an immense debt of gratitude to my co-editors over the past six years, Julian Wright and Claire Eldridge. Both have been exemplary colleagues, combining a tireless commitment to the journal with courtesy towards our authors, peer-reviewers and readers, creativity in inspiring new initiatives and encouraging new developments in the discipline and thankfully, good humour. They are both very fine historians and very good colleagues, and it has been a privilege to work with them. I hope I have learned from both of them.
February 22, 2024 at 10:02 AM
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Apologies, French History seems to have some dust in its eye.

It's nothing! The journal is fine! We can blink through this!
Over my six years as co-editor of French History, I seem to have accumulated a lot of debts. Inadequate though it is, this brief note is meant to settle some of those accounts by acknowledging how very fortunate I have been in the people I worked with on the journal, in the Society for the Study of French History and at Oxford University Press since 2018. From the late and much-missed Clare Morton, our managing editor at OUP when I first joined the journal, to the infinitely supportive SSFH presidents, secretaries and committee members, especially Dave Andress, Penny Roberts and Andrew Smith, I've worked with, being involved in French History has always been a collaborative and very collegial endeavour. At the heart of that collaboration, it has been a pleasure to work alongside our associate editors, Jessica Wardhaugh, Erika Graham-Goering and Will Pooley, our reviews editor Stewart McCain and the members of our international editorial board. [alt continues in next]
February 22, 2024 at 10:01 AM
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'We are also conscious that many reviewers - and especially first-time reviewers - are given little guidance on how to do peer review.' 🗃️#FRHistory
We are also conscious that many reviewers - and especially first-time reviewers - are given little guidance on how to do peer review. While French History has published a range of excellent research since our first issue appeared in 1987, we take our responsibility to the diversity and representativeness of our fields very seriously and aim to promote a range of perspectives and voices in the journal through constructive, critical engagement. We encourage reviewers to evaluate the submissions they receive with these goals in mind.
December 1, 2023 at 9:08 AM
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Thinking of submitting to 'French History'? #FRHistory 🗃️

In addition to the information we provide for authors, we now have a section with advice for reviewers, which gives an idea of what the review process can look like:

academic.oup.com/fh/pages/rev...
We encourage reviewers to treat submissions as they would like their own work to be treated. Reviewers should bear in mind that the journal regularly publishes work from researchers at a range of career stages and working in different fields both within and beyond academia. Even experienced researchers can find the process of undergoing review challenging. The review process should be rigorous, but it should always be constructive and courteous too. We encourage reviewers to frame their comments in a positive and collegial manner. Reviews, where possible, should reflect on a submission's strengths as well as areas for improvement. Disagreement is part of scholarly discussion, and not necessarily grounds to recommend rejecting a submission.
November 27, 2023 at 3:51 PM
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Ruthless families who'll do anything to climb the ladder. No it's not Succession or even Game of Thrones... it's forestry officers in the long eighteenth century. Check out our conversation with Elizabeth Salje about her article in the latest issue of the journal: frenchhistorysociety.co.uk/6083/
Black and white photograph postcard from c.1900 shows a forest scene: three horses harnessed to a large log, mounted on a cart. They are led by three men in working clothing and hats. The caption reads 'Axat: Rouliers sur la route forestière'
November 8, 2023 at 12:54 PM
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"Progress can be a fabulously messy thing."

Daniel A. Gordon joined us to talk about his brand new article on the ten-year residency permit in France

frenchhistorysociety.co.uk/6087/

#FRHistorians 🗃️
Image shows Daniel sitting at a restaurant smiling
November 1, 2023 at 12:34 PM
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"It is a truth universally acknowledged that we would all like someone else to come along and write our conclusions."

We talked with Catherine Phipps about writing her OA article on 'bordels militaires de campagne' in the BRAND NEW issue out now!
frenchhistorysociety.co.uk/6080/
🗃️#FRHistory
October 25, 2023 at 7:08 AM
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Race, labour, sex, beauty, and sport: we caught up with Keith Rathbone to talk about the politics of the body in modern France, the subject of a virtual special issue he put together for the journal. Read more: frenchhistorysociety.co.uk/6037/ and read the VSI here academic.oup.com/fh/pages/the... 🗃️
Image shows a page from a magazine with a black and white picture of a young woman, and the title 'À quoi pense une reine de beauté' (What does a beauty queen think about)
September 13, 2023 at 2:54 PM