Alison Carrol
@alisoncarrol.bsky.social
Historian at Brunel Uni of London working on borders in modern Europe. Author of The Return of Alsace. Current project: the idea of the Channel tunnel.
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Our next PGR/ECR event, “How to write a book review” with guest Dr. Daniel Steinbach, will take place on Wednesday, 18 February at 12:30pm EST/ 5:30pm GMT/ 6:30pm CET.
Any member wanting to register for the event can do so here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/how-to-wri...
Any member wanting to register for the event can do so here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/how-to-wri...
How to write a book review
Learn how to write a book review from Daniel Steinbach, book-review editor of First World War Studies.
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February 11, 2026 at 5:49 PM
Our next PGR/ECR event, “How to write a book review” with guest Dr. Daniel Steinbach, will take place on Wednesday, 18 February at 12:30pm EST/ 5:30pm GMT/ 6:30pm CET.
Any member wanting to register for the event can do so here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/how-to-wri...
Any member wanting to register for the event can do so here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/how-to-wri...
Spring term @ihr.bsky.social
Modern French History Seminar got off to a great start tonight with Sarah Gensburger's fascinating talk 'Parisian Homes as Witnesses of the Holocaust.' The book is out next year & I'm so looking forward to it. The rest of the programme:
www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
Modern French History Seminar got off to a great start tonight with Sarah Gensburger's fascinating talk 'Parisian Homes as Witnesses of the Holocaust.' The book is out next year & I'm so looking forward to it. The rest of the programme:
www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
Modern French History
Seminar
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February 9, 2026 at 6:36 PM
Spring term @ihr.bsky.social
Modern French History Seminar got off to a great start tonight with Sarah Gensburger's fascinating talk 'Parisian Homes as Witnesses of the Holocaust.' The book is out next year & I'm so looking forward to it. The rest of the programme:
www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
Modern French History Seminar got off to a great start tonight with Sarah Gensburger's fascinating talk 'Parisian Homes as Witnesses of the Holocaust.' The book is out next year & I'm so looking forward to it. The rest of the programme:
www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
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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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Natalie Zemon Davis, 1996: “I still find history full of wonders; I still find in the differences in past societies a way to take stock of the present—a source of sober realism, but also a source of hope." Read more about why history matters and the importance of historical thinking in public life.🗃️
Why History Matters - AHA
Why Study History Historical Thinking in Everyday Life The AHA offers resources for educators and students on the importance of studying history, and reflections on why learning about the past helps u...
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July 1, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Natalie Zemon Davis, 1996: “I still find history full of wonders; I still find in the differences in past societies a way to take stock of the present—a source of sober realism, but also a source of hope." Read more about why history matters and the importance of historical thinking in public life.🗃️
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Tonight’s huge climbdown is testament to the countless disabled people who have tirelessly fought these cuts. Yes, UC was a loss and there’s more to do on PIP, but let’s not underplay this: a government with a vast majority has been forced to u-turn. Because of the disabled community.
July 1, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Tonight’s huge climbdown is testament to the countless disabled people who have tirelessly fought these cuts. Yes, UC was a loss and there’s more to do on PIP, but let’s not underplay this: a government with a vast majority has been forced to u-turn. Because of the disabled community.
Tonight at the IHR Modern French History Seminar
@juliekalman.bsky.social (Monash) will be talking on 'The Asterix Series as National Myth in Postwar France.' Join us in person (Senate House, room 243) or online at 17.30. Register through here for zoom codes: www.history.ac.uk/events/aster...
@juliekalman.bsky.social (Monash) will be talking on 'The Asterix Series as National Myth in Postwar France.' Join us in person (Senate House, room 243) or online at 17.30. Register through here for zoom codes: www.history.ac.uk/events/aster...
The Asterix Series as National Myth in Postwar France
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January 20, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Tonight at the IHR Modern French History Seminar
@juliekalman.bsky.social (Monash) will be talking on 'The Asterix Series as National Myth in Postwar France.' Join us in person (Senate House, room 243) or online at 17.30. Register through here for zoom codes: www.history.ac.uk/events/aster...
@juliekalman.bsky.social (Monash) will be talking on 'The Asterix Series as National Myth in Postwar France.' Join us in person (Senate House, room 243) or online at 17.30. Register through here for zoom codes: www.history.ac.uk/events/aster...
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If you published your first book in French history in 2024 and have an affiliation with a UK or Irish university, then please consider submitting to next year's prize! Details will be updated here shortly: frenchhistorysociety.co.uk/ssfh-book-pr...
January 14, 2025 at 1:18 PM
If you published your first book in French history in 2024 and have an affiliation with a UK or Irish university, then please consider submitting to next year's prize! Details will be updated here shortly: frenchhistorysociety.co.uk/ssfh-book-pr...
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Very excited to (re)start the PGR-ECR spotlight on the SSFH Blog - here's Anthony Chapman-Joy's to kick it off! frenchhistorysociety.co.uk/6530/
PGR-ECR Spotlight: Anthony Chapman-Joy – SSFH
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January 14, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Very excited to (re)start the PGR-ECR spotlight on the SSFH Blog - here's Anthony Chapman-Joy's to kick it off! frenchhistorysociety.co.uk/6530/
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And congratulations to the shortlisted authors for the SSFH First Book Prize: Benjamin Darnell, *Maritime Power and the Power of Money in Louis XIV’s France*; Alex Paulin-Booth, *Time and Radical Politics in France*; and Gemma Tidman, *The Emergence of Literature in Eighteenth-Century France* 🙌 👏 🙌
January 14, 2025 at 7:26 AM
And congratulations to the shortlisted authors for the SSFH First Book Prize: Benjamin Darnell, *Maritime Power and the Power of Money in Louis XIV’s France*; Alex Paulin-Booth, *Time and Radical Politics in France*; and Gemma Tidman, *The Emergence of Literature in Eighteenth-Century France* 🙌 👏 🙌
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Congratulations to Lewis Wade (@wadehistory.bsky.social), winner of the Society for the Study of French History First Book Prize for *Privilege, Economy and State in Old Regime France* – announced at the SSFH (@frenchhistory.bsky.social) Douglas Johnson Lecture yesterday
January 14, 2025 at 7:19 AM
Congratulations to Lewis Wade (@wadehistory.bsky.social), winner of the Society for the Study of French History First Book Prize for *Privilege, Economy and State in Old Regime France* – announced at the SSFH (@frenchhistory.bsky.social) Douglas Johnson Lecture yesterday
Fully funded AHRC techne PhD studentship at Brunel (Uni of London) in History/Media Studies based on the archive of the Wapping Post and in collaboration with the Marx Memorial Library. Please feel free to get in touch with any questions. And please share widely! www.brunel.ac.uk/research/Res...
AHRC Studentship Collaborative Doctoral Award - The Wapping Post - A partnership between BUL and Marx Memorial Library
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December 19, 2024 at 6:37 PM
Fully funded AHRC techne PhD studentship at Brunel (Uni of London) in History/Media Studies based on the archive of the Wapping Post and in collaboration with the Marx Memorial Library. Please feel free to get in touch with any questions. And please share widely! www.brunel.ac.uk/research/Res...
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'We welcome applications from anyone with relevant lived or academic experience who can demonstrate a commitment and ability to undertake independent research.'
Fellowships at Royal Museums Greenwich
Apply for funding to support research at Royal Museums Greenwich through our Caird Research Fellowships
www.rmg.co.uk
December 19, 2024 at 9:46 AM
'We welcome applications from anyone with relevant lived or academic experience who can demonstrate a commitment and ability to undertake independent research.'
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Upcoming SSFH & ASMCF Annual Douglas Johnson Memorial Lecture, 13 January 2025. Details are on the SSFH site, tickets to go live soon. Prof Hanna Diamond will be speaking on 'Discovering Josephine Baker's War'
frenchhistorysociety.co.uk/douglas-john...
frenchhistorysociety.co.uk/douglas-john...
November 28, 2024 at 9:35 AM
Upcoming SSFH & ASMCF Annual Douglas Johnson Memorial Lecture, 13 January 2025. Details are on the SSFH site, tickets to go live soon. Prof Hanna Diamond will be speaking on 'Discovering Josephine Baker's War'
frenchhistorysociety.co.uk/douglas-john...
frenchhistorysociety.co.uk/douglas-john...
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Applications now open for the Commonwealth Shared Scholarship to study for the MSc Diplomacy and International Security at @unistrathclyde.bsky.social.
Application details:
cscuk.fcdo.gov.uk/scholarships...
Application details:
cscuk.fcdo.gov.uk/scholarships...
December 9, 2024 at 2:18 PM
Applications now open for the Commonwealth Shared Scholarship to study for the MSc Diplomacy and International Security at @unistrathclyde.bsky.social.
Application details:
cscuk.fcdo.gov.uk/scholarships...
Application details:
cscuk.fcdo.gov.uk/scholarships...
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'When Notre-Dame reopened on 7 December, it was thanks, in part, to the efforts of 175 researchers with expertise across a range of disciplines: acoustics, art, data, history, archaeology, anthropology.' Example of why blue-skies research matters for 'real-life' problems we've not yet imagined. 1/2
The academics who helped breathe new life into Notre-Dame
Five years after a devastating fire, the Paris cathedral has finally reopened, with the help of a vast team of researchers
www.timeshighereducation.com
December 9, 2024 at 8:06 AM
'When Notre-Dame reopened on 7 December, it was thanks, in part, to the efforts of 175 researchers with expertise across a range of disciplines: acoustics, art, data, history, archaeology, anthropology.' Example of why blue-skies research matters for 'real-life' problems we've not yet imagined. 1/2
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For History Compass, I wrote about new directions in the study of the history of technology in modern South Asia. I explored the potential of these historiographic trends through poetic laments of an early 20th-century railway carpenter named ‘Abdul ‘Aziz in Lahore...
A Railway Carpenter in the History of Technology?: New Opportunities From Modern South Asia
This article examines interconnected questions that are central to new scholarship on the history of technology in modern South Asia. Which communities, groups and individuals have formed and sustain...
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November 30, 2024 at 12:37 PM
For History Compass, I wrote about new directions in the study of the history of technology in modern South Asia. I explored the potential of these historiographic trends through poetic laments of an early 20th-century railway carpenter named ‘Abdul ‘Aziz in Lahore...
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Next History on the Edge/Zgodovina na Špici series will take place on 11 December at 13:00 (at the INZ and online). The lecture "Understanding and Opposing Fascism: The Political and Intellectual Experience of the Interwar Exile" will be given by Marco Bresciani
More info: www.inz.si/en/Events/Un...
More info: www.inz.si/en/Events/Un...
December 2, 2024 at 11:00 AM
Next History on the Edge/Zgodovina na Špici series will take place on 11 December at 13:00 (at the INZ and online). The lecture "Understanding and Opposing Fascism: The Political and Intellectual Experience of the Interwar Exile" will be given by Marco Bresciani
More info: www.inz.si/en/Events/Un...
More info: www.inz.si/en/Events/Un...
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Sixteenth-century Breton graffiti discovered in Tower of London! #earlymodern #france
16th-century graffiti of Tower of London prisoners decoded for first time
Once listed as ‘illegible’, the words of inmates held in bleak fortress are revealed by latest technology
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December 1, 2024 at 10:15 AM
Sixteenth-century Breton graffiti discovered in Tower of London! #earlymodern #france
Tonight I'll be at the IHR speaking on 'French, History, and Blogging: Reflections on the Tenth Anniversary of the French History Network' as part of a stellar line up with Daniel Gordon, @lrbobrien.bsky.social, @willpooley.bsky.social and Guillaume Yverneau. Online/in person at 17.30.
December 2, 2024 at 11:07 AM
Tonight I'll be at the IHR speaking on 'French, History, and Blogging: Reflections on the Tenth Anniversary of the French History Network' as part of a stellar line up with Daniel Gordon, @lrbobrien.bsky.social, @willpooley.bsky.social and Guillaume Yverneau. Online/in person at 17.30.
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Foreign students shd be removed fr immigration stats. Most return home shortly post-degree & while here enrich educational & cultural experience for home students, contribute expertise & research power, & increase British soft power. Their fees underwrite domestic uni programmes too.
On students, the latest quarterly statistics show that in the year ending September 2024, there were 392,969 sponsored study visas granted to main applicants, down 19% from the previous year
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Why do people come to the UK? Study
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November 28, 2024 at 12:11 PM
Foreign students shd be removed fr immigration stats. Most return home shortly post-degree & while here enrich educational & cultural experience for home students, contribute expertise & research power, & increase British soft power. Their fees underwrite domestic uni programmes too.
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States are erecting walls at their borders at a pace unmatched in history, and the wall between the U.S. and Mexico stands as an icon among these dividing structures. Building Walls, Constructing Identities by Marie-Eve Loiselle offers a rich account of this legal history
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November 19, 2024 at 9:41 PM
States are erecting walls at their borders at a pace unmatched in history, and the wall between the U.S. and Mexico stands as an icon among these dividing structures. Building Walls, Constructing Identities by Marie-Eve Loiselle offers a rich account of this legal history
www.sup.org/books/law/bu...
www.sup.org/books/law/bu...
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With news of the historian and resistance fighter #MarcBloch being inducted into the Panthéon, we wanted to let our readers know they can explore his works in our collections and give thanks to the donations he made when the Institute's library was being established.
November 25, 2024 at 10:23 AM
With news of the historian and resistance fighter #MarcBloch being inducted into the Panthéon, we wanted to let our readers know they can explore his works in our collections and give thanks to the donations he made when the Institute's library was being established.
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How long would your commute take in 1680? Mine would be about a day and a half.
@camunicampop.bsky.social has a brilliant tool for calculating travel times in Roman, 1680, 1830, 1911 and 2024. 🗃️
www.travelintimes.org/journey/52.2...
@camunicampop.bsky.social has a brilliant tool for calculating travel times in Roman, 1680, 1830, 1911 and 2024. 🗃️
www.travelintimes.org/journey/52.2...
November 22, 2024 at 9:49 AM
How long would your commute take in 1680? Mine would be about a day and a half.
@camunicampop.bsky.social has a brilliant tool for calculating travel times in Roman, 1680, 1830, 1911 and 2024. 🗃️
www.travelintimes.org/journey/52.2...
@camunicampop.bsky.social has a brilliant tool for calculating travel times in Roman, 1680, 1830, 1911 and 2024. 🗃️
www.travelintimes.org/journey/52.2...