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Professor Claire Eldridge
Dr Tom Hamilton
Associate Editors
Dr Erika Graham-Goering
Dr Will Pooley
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French History is an international forum for major new articles covering all aspects of the histories of France and the Francophone world, from the early Middle Ages to the twenty-first century...
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The Prize
The prize is open to historians whose work has been published in the journal, and who are within 15 years of submission of their doctorate at the time of submission of their article. The prize is designed to promote and acknowledge outstanding work from French history scholars early in their career, whatever their nationality.
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The French History Article Prize
The winner of the 2023 French History Article Prize is:
Ovine invasion: sheep as protest objects and animal agents in the Larzac campaign
by Andrew W M Smith
French History, Volume 36, Issue 43 (2022) Volume 37, Issue 4 (2023)
The Politics of the Body in Modern France
This virtual issue showcases the different ways in which French historians have studied the physical bodies of historical subjects. These articles reflect the range of thematic and disciplinary approaches to the body developed since the 1990s, with subjects including the racialization of bodies, debate(s) over appropriate femininity, and the interplay between the individual body, security and the nation.
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Popular Piety and the State in Modern France
The articles in this virtual issue on popular piety and the state depict a powerful struggle against the pressures of secularization and the master narratives of history. They cast their subject as a challenge to narratives of dechristianization, as expressions of ‘embattled identity’ and as resistance to the ‘onward march of secularization’ or to colonial rule.
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Historical perspectives on the 2022 electoral cycle in France
This series of three essays explores the stakes and outcomes of the 2022 French electoral cycle. Written in real time, they call attention to several emerging trends in French politics, including the collapse of both the traditional political parties and the left–right divide, the dynamics of attraction and repulsion elicited by Macron’s personality, the far right’s ‘arrival’ as a mainstream party, and the cascading fractures that divide and weaken the left.
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Society for the Study of French History
French History is published on behalf of the Society for the Study of French History (SSFH). Society membership carries the automatic benefit of subscription to French History and SSFH members are also eligible for a 30% discount on all OUP European History titles.
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