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
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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/
Back in 2022, I went to Duisans graveyard near Arras to visit the grave of my Gran's uncle Allan McAskill, killed on 13th April 1917 while fighting with 6th Cameron Highlanders. His siblings back in Kintail were given Gaelic Bibles from his remaining regimental pay in his memory
#armistice
#armistice
November 11, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Back in 2022, I went to Duisans graveyard near Arras to visit the grave of my Gran's uncle Allan McAskill, killed on 13th April 1917 while fighting with 6th Cameron Highlanders. His siblings back in Kintail were given Gaelic Bibles from his remaining regimental pay in his memory
#armistice
#armistice
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Ghostly pallor - but a great pod. @QMUL's finest, @robertsaunders.bsky.social talking Britain going berserk. www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQ8q...
Nick Cohen talks to academic & author Robert Saunders about the bizarre state of UK politics
YouTube video by LowdownNickCohen
www.youtube.com
November 10, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Ghostly pallor - but a great pod. @QMUL's finest, @robertsaunders.bsky.social talking Britain going berserk. www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQ8q...
I was invited along to attend the commemorative Vitrine unveiling ceremony at the Lycée Charles de Gaulle in South Ken. Brigitte Williams, pictured laying a wreath with the ambassador, has curated a display on the Volontaires féminines of Free France 🗃 #skystorians
November 10, 2025 at 3:30 PM
I was invited along to attend the commemorative Vitrine unveiling ceremony at the Lycée Charles de Gaulle in South Ken. Brigitte Williams, pictured laying a wreath with the ambassador, has curated a display on the Volontaires féminines of Free France 🗃 #skystorians
I'll always tune in to hear my PhD supervisor talk about his research. His book on Pétain's trail is a brilliant one and well worth your time
NEW EPISODE OUT NOW!
Today’s episode is the 1st of two on the extraordinary trial of Marshal Pétain in summer 1945 that ended up putting wartime France in the dock. David talks to historian Julian Jackson about how Pétain found himself so quickly charged with treason.
Find us at...🎧 ppfideas.com
Today’s episode is the 1st of two on the extraordinary trial of Marshal Pétain in summer 1945 that ended up putting wartime France in the dock. David talks to historian Julian Jackson about how Pétain found himself so quickly charged with treason.
Find us at...🎧 ppfideas.com
November 10, 2025 at 10:27 AM
I'll always tune in to hear my PhD supervisor talk about his research. His book on Pétain's trail is a brilliant one and well worth your time
This is an important worked example of how systems thinking can help make the case for the humanities (in the face of rushed and shallow political scrutiny)
What's lost when we lose staff, departments, programmes and faculties in Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, and what's that got to do with organ donation?
Amid the looming losses faced by Cardiff, Edinburgh, Lancaster, Leicester and Nottingham (among many others), here's a worked example. 1/8
Amid the looming losses faced by Cardiff, Edinburgh, Lancaster, Leicester and Nottingham (among many others), here's a worked example. 1/8
The organ donation ‘opt-out’ has been a fatal failure | The Observer
observer.co.uk
November 10, 2025 at 10:26 AM
This is an important worked example of how systems thinking can help make the case for the humanities (in the face of rushed and shallow political scrutiny)
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Get 50% off thousands of books with free UK postage!
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Includes all books except those priced £100+, preorders & books published after 31/10/25
Not available N/S America & Australia/NZ
#booksale #universitypress
Only available from yalebooks.co.uk in November
Includes all books except those priced £100+, preorders & books published after 31/10/25
Not available N/S America & Australia/NZ
#booksale #universitypress
November 7, 2025 at 11:31 AM
Get 50% off thousands of books with free UK postage!
Only available from yalebooks.co.uk in November
Includes all books except those priced £100+, preorders & books published after 31/10/25
Not available N/S America & Australia/NZ
#booksale #universitypress
Only available from yalebooks.co.uk in November
Includes all books except those priced £100+, preorders & books published after 31/10/25
Not available N/S America & Australia/NZ
#booksale #universitypress
We've been in the new place 3 months now and have largely unpacked and settled in. Yet somewhere in a box, in a cupboard, a clock is ticking like the telltale heart
November 10, 2025 at 8:27 AM
We've been in the new place 3 months now and have largely unpacked and settled in. Yet somewhere in a box, in a cupboard, a clock is ticking like the telltale heart
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I've written up a blog post about the Isle of Wight, the Free French Navy, clandestine flights into wartime France to support resistance, and... garlic? This is part of the Save Tangmere Tower campaign I'm involved with organising
savetangmeretower.com/espionage-co...
#skystorians 🗃️
savetangmeretower.com/espionage-co...
#skystorians 🗃️
Espionage cooking: Où est le garlic? – Tangmere
In 1965, the British spy writer Len Deighton , better known for classics like The Ipcress File and later espionage thrillers, published two cookbooks. His first
savetangmeretower.com
November 7, 2025 at 4:32 PM
I've written up a blog post about the Isle of Wight, the Free French Navy, clandestine flights into wartime France to support resistance, and... garlic? This is part of the Save Tangmere Tower campaign I'm involved with organising
savetangmeretower.com/espionage-co...
#skystorians 🗃️
savetangmeretower.com/espionage-co...
#skystorians 🗃️
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Join us on Weds 19 November for the launch of our new co-hosted Applied History Fellowships for postdoc historians, with
@ihr.bsky.social and DC Thomson bit.ly/4ofWArN
Fellowships will develop historical skills for use in workplaces beyond higher education: 2.30pm, 19 November, online #Skystorians
@ihr.bsky.social and DC Thomson bit.ly/4ofWArN
Fellowships will develop historical skills for use in workplaces beyond higher education: 2.30pm, 19 November, online #Skystorians
New programme of 'Applied History Fellowships': launch and introductory event - RHS
In 2025-26 the Institute of Historical Research (IHR), Royal Historical Society and DC Thomson will launch a new Applied History Fellowship partnership. Join us at this online session -- 2.30pm on Wed...
bit.ly
November 7, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Join us on Weds 19 November for the launch of our new co-hosted Applied History Fellowships for postdoc historians, with
@ihr.bsky.social and DC Thomson bit.ly/4ofWArN
Fellowships will develop historical skills for use in workplaces beyond higher education: 2.30pm, 19 November, online #Skystorians
@ihr.bsky.social and DC Thomson bit.ly/4ofWArN
Fellowships will develop historical skills for use in workplaces beyond higher education: 2.30pm, 19 November, online #Skystorians
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Not enough attention is being paid to the effective closure of the bulk of one of the 2 or 3 most important public archives for modern British history. A terrible own goal for the BBC as a public-service agency.
WAC wrong-headedness
(that's the BBC Written Archives Centre)
I've brought together the key links for the campaign against the changes which now make independent and exploratory research at WAC impossible - and why this matters.
www.illuminationsmedia.co.uk/wac-wrong-he...
(that's the BBC Written Archives Centre)
I've brought together the key links for the campaign against the changes which now make independent and exploratory research at WAC impossible - and why this matters.
www.illuminationsmedia.co.uk/wac-wrong-he...
WAC wrong-headedness - Illuminations
John Wyver writes: Some of you will know that I have been very involved over the past months with attempts to reverse the wrong-headed changes to access at the BBC Written Archives Centre (above, with...
www.illuminationsmedia.co.uk
November 7, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Not enough attention is being paid to the effective closure of the bulk of one of the 2 or 3 most important public archives for modern British history. A terrible own goal for the BBC as a public-service agency.
I've written up a blog post about the Isle of Wight, the Free French Navy, clandestine flights into wartime France to support resistance, and... garlic? This is part of the Save Tangmere Tower campaign I'm involved with organising
savetangmeretower.com/espionage-co...
#skystorians 🗃️
savetangmeretower.com/espionage-co...
#skystorians 🗃️
Espionage cooking: Où est le garlic? – Tangmere
In 1965, the British spy writer Len Deighton , better known for classics like The Ipcress File and later espionage thrillers, published two cookbooks. His first
savetangmeretower.com
November 7, 2025 at 4:32 PM
I've written up a blog post about the Isle of Wight, the Free French Navy, clandestine flights into wartime France to support resistance, and... garlic? This is part of the Save Tangmere Tower campaign I'm involved with organising
savetangmeretower.com/espionage-co...
#skystorians 🗃️
savetangmeretower.com/espionage-co...
#skystorians 🗃️
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Hoping this helps our colleagues across the industry
November 5, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Hoping this helps our colleagues across the industry
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📣Out now on #firstview!
David Andress (@uophistory.bsky.social) on 'The Language of confiance and the French cahiers de doléances of 1789'
#Revolution #Emotion #Trust #Agency #France #Digital 18thc 🗃️📜
👉Open access: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
David Andress (@uophistory.bsky.social) on 'The Language of confiance and the French cahiers de doléances of 1789'
#Revolution #Emotion #Trust #Agency #France #Digital 18thc 🗃️📜
👉Open access: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
November 6, 2025 at 7:29 AM
📣Out now on #firstview!
David Andress (@uophistory.bsky.social) on 'The Language of confiance and the French cahiers de doléances of 1789'
#Revolution #Emotion #Trust #Agency #France #Digital 18thc 🗃️📜
👉Open access: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
David Andress (@uophistory.bsky.social) on 'The Language of confiance and the French cahiers de doléances of 1789'
#Revolution #Emotion #Trust #Agency #France #Digital 18thc 🗃️📜
👉Open access: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Really pleased to announce the launch of the all-new, all-dancing, London Lives website - www.londonlives.org It has been thoroughly re-engineered to facilitate more types of search, and redesigned for phones and tablets. The team very much hopes peope like it. 1/
London Lives
www.londonlives.org
November 5, 2025 at 11:24 AM
Really pleased to announce the launch of the all-new, all-dancing, London Lives website - www.londonlives.org It has been thoroughly re-engineered to facilitate more types of search, and redesigned for phones and tablets. The team very much hopes peope like it. 1/
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Sporting headlines from 1949 collected in a scrapbook in our #SportingHeritage collections.
#Athletics @sportingheritage.bsky.social #StirScanStudio
#Athletics @sportingheritage.bsky.social #StirScanStudio
November 5, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Sporting headlines from 1949 collected in a scrapbook in our #SportingHeritage collections.
#Athletics @sportingheritage.bsky.social #StirScanStudio
#Athletics @sportingheritage.bsky.social #StirScanStudio
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What does the history of the #ChannelTunnel tell us about Britain’s relationship with its neighbours?
⌛️ Last chance to read this archive article for free
www.historytoday.com/archive/behi...
⌛️ Last chance to read this archive article for free
www.historytoday.com/archive/behi...
Fear, Friendship and the Channel Tunnel
www.historytoday.com
November 5, 2025 at 9:05 AM
What does the history of the #ChannelTunnel tell us about Britain’s relationship with its neighbours?
⌛️ Last chance to read this archive article for free
www.historytoday.com/archive/behi...
⌛️ Last chance to read this archive article for free
www.historytoday.com/archive/behi...
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Do we still live in Thatcher's Britain?
I was joined at the @mileendinstitute.bsky.social by Gillian Shephard, Simone Finn and @philipjcowley.bsky.social to discuss the Thatcher legacy, 100 years after her birth.
The full video is available here.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=JLJK...
I was joined at the @mileendinstitute.bsky.social by Gillian Shephard, Simone Finn and @philipjcowley.bsky.social to discuss the Thatcher legacy, 100 years after her birth.
The full video is available here.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=JLJK...
Still "Thatcher's Britain"? The Thatcher Legacy, 1925-2025
YouTube video by Mile End Institute
www.youtube.com
November 4, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Do we still live in Thatcher's Britain?
I was joined at the @mileendinstitute.bsky.social by Gillian Shephard, Simone Finn and @philipjcowley.bsky.social to discuss the Thatcher legacy, 100 years after her birth.
The full video is available here.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=JLJK...
I was joined at the @mileendinstitute.bsky.social by Gillian Shephard, Simone Finn and @philipjcowley.bsky.social to discuss the Thatcher legacy, 100 years after her birth.
The full video is available here.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=JLJK...
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Huge congratulations to @tombhamilton.bsky.social on the launch of his brand new book 'A Widow's Vengeance After the Wars of Religion: Gender & Justice in Renaissance France.' You can order a copy here: global.oup.com/academic/pro...
February 15, 2024 at 8:16 PM
Huge congratulations to @tombhamilton.bsky.social on the launch of his brand new book 'A Widow's Vengeance After the Wars of Religion: Gender & Justice in Renaissance France.' You can order a copy here: global.oup.com/academic/pro...
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This term card is on 🔥🔥🔥
📍📍The London History of Anticolonial Political Thought Seminar📍📍
⌛️Seminars are hybrid and take place in-person in London & Zoom, 5:30-7:00pm (GMT).⌛️
📲To sign up to our mailing list for the seminar, please email discourseonanticolonialism@hotmail.com
📍📍The London History of Anticolonial Political Thought Seminar📍📍
⌛️Seminars are hybrid and take place in-person in London & Zoom, 5:30-7:00pm (GMT).⌛️
📲To sign up to our mailing list for the seminar, please email discourseonanticolonialism@hotmail.com
November 3, 2025 at 5:02 PM
This term card is on 🔥🔥🔥
📍📍The London History of Anticolonial Political Thought Seminar📍📍
⌛️Seminars are hybrid and take place in-person in London & Zoom, 5:30-7:00pm (GMT).⌛️
📲To sign up to our mailing list for the seminar, please email discourseonanticolonialism@hotmail.com
📍📍The London History of Anticolonial Political Thought Seminar📍📍
⌛️Seminars are hybrid and take place in-person in London & Zoom, 5:30-7:00pm (GMT).⌛️
📲To sign up to our mailing list for the seminar, please email discourseonanticolonialism@hotmail.com
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Can anyone help me identify these schoolgirls who visited Parliament in July 1909? I'm writing about them in my book and would LOVE to be able to say who they are! www.npg.org.uk/collections/... #histed #histchild
'School Girls at the House of Commons' (including Michael Joseph Flavin) - National Portrait Gallery
by Benjamin Stone
platinum print
22 July 1909
© National Portrait Gallery, London
www.npg.org.uk
November 3, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Can anyone help me identify these schoolgirls who visited Parliament in July 1909? I'm writing about them in my book and would LOVE to be able to say who they are! www.npg.org.uk/collections/... #histed #histchild
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We are looking to hire a part-time freelance managing editor at @conteurohistory.bsky.social. Applications are due 30 November and you can find the full details here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Happy to answer any questions via DM or email
Happy to answer any questions via DM or email
November 3, 2025 at 11:44 AM
We are looking to hire a part-time freelance managing editor at @conteurohistory.bsky.social. Applications are due 30 November and you can find the full details here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Happy to answer any questions via DM or email
Happy to answer any questions via DM or email
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Them, a conference attendee: 'This is a comment more than a question...'
Me, a panellist:
Me, a panellist:
November 3, 2025 at 11:42 AM
Them, a conference attendee: 'This is a comment more than a question...'
Me, a panellist:
Me, a panellist:
Exciting times, as I think I've found an incorrect link in the training and reported to IT... will I receive a special prize? (I do not think I will receive a special prize)
Compulsory GDPR training. Now there's a true Monday morning task for you
November 3, 2025 at 11:05 AM
Exciting times, as I think I've found an incorrect link in the training and reported to IT... will I receive a special prize? (I do not think I will receive a special prize)
Compulsory GDPR training. Now there's a true Monday morning task for you
November 3, 2025 at 9:52 AM
Compulsory GDPR training. Now there's a true Monday morning task for you
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"If the industrial strategy is to succeed, we’ll need English graduates as well as engineers, historians alongside computer scientists, and social scientists together with health professionals.
To assume otherwise would be to do a grave disservice to students, universities and the economy." 2/2
To assume otherwise would be to do a grave disservice to students, universities and the economy." 2/2
November 3, 2025 at 9:32 AM
"If the industrial strategy is to succeed, we’ll need English graduates as well as engineers, historians alongside computer scientists, and social scientists together with health professionals.
To assume otherwise would be to do a grave disservice to students, universities and the economy." 2/2
To assume otherwise would be to do a grave disservice to students, universities and the economy." 2/2