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The Society for the Study of French History (SSFH) supports postgraduate research by funding students to carry out archival research as well as helping them to attend and/or present work at conferences. These awards are open to all postgraduate students registered at a UK university who are carrying out research on an aspect of French history, and reports from successful applicants clearly indicate the tremendous range of research interests supported by the Society. The Society also supports conferences on French history as well as Visiting Scholars to UK and Irish Universities. In this edition, we present information about the new SSFH Book Prize, as well as details on recent and forthcoming books in the Studies in Modern French and Francophone History series with MUP, for which members of the SSFH are entitled to a 35% discount. More information on the postgraduate awards (and on the full range of bursaries and prizes offered by the SSFH) is available from the Society’s website: www.frenchhistorysociety.ac.uk.

SOCIETY FOR THE STUDY OF FRENCH HISTORY BOOK PRIZE

Overview

The Society for the Study of French History Book Prize offers an annual award of £1,000 for a work by an author based in the United Kingdom and Ireland, on a topic related to the history of France and the Francophone world in its broadest global context, which is the author’s first sole book publication. This is a new initiative announced at the 36th Annual Conference 2023.

Eligibility

Entries published in 2024 must be received by 21 March 2025 to be eligible for that year’s competition. The winner will be announced at the Douglas Johnson Annual Memorial Lecture the following January. To be eligible for consideration for the prize, the book must:

• be on any historical subject that is related to the history of France and the Francophone world, defined in its broadest global context;

• be the author’s first sole book publication;

• be an original and scholarly work of historical research by an author who received their doctoral degree from a British or Irish university, or who is currently or most recently affiliated with a British or Irish university;

• have been published in English during the calendar year 2024 (for the 2025 award).

The winner is selected by the Book Prize Jury, appointed by the Society for the Study of French History Committee. Their decision is then proposed to the Society for the Study of French History Committee and Trustees, who jointly award the prize.

Criteria

The criteria for judging the prize are the book’s scholarly distinction, the quality of its writing and its potential significance for historical debates.

Notes for submissions

Authors and/or publishers are invited to submit books published in 2024 for the 2025 award.

The Society is committed to upholding values of equality, diversity and inclusion. It welcomes eligible submissions from the widest possible range of authors and publishers.

Authors and publishers are asked to ensure submissions comply with the eligibility requirements. Any questions may be sent to SSFH Secretary Dr Luc-André Brunet: [email protected].

To complete the submission per title, authors and/or publishers are required to submit a pdf of the completed eligible book by 21 March 2025. Submissions should be sent to SSFH Secretary Dr Luc-André Brunet: [email protected].

STUDIES IN MODERN FRENCH AND FRANCOPHONE HISTORY

This series with Manchester University Press is published in collaboration with the SSFH and the French Colonial Historical Society. It aims to showcase innovative monographs and edited collections on the history of France, its colonies and imperial undertakings, and the francophone world more generally since c. 1750. Authors demonstrate how sources and interpretations are being opened to historical investigation in new and interesting ways, and how unfamiliar subjects have the capacity to tell us more about France and the French colonial empire, their relationships in the world and their legacies in the present. The series is particularly receptive to studies that break down traditional boundaries and conventional disciplinary divisions.

Members of the Society for the Study of French History are entitled to a 35 per cent discount on orders for personal use on all Studies in Modern French and Francophone History series titles.

Recent and forthcoming titles include:

Time and radical politics in France: From the Dreyfus Affair to the First World War

Alexandra Paulin-Booth ISBN: 978-1-5261-4964-0

Republican passions: Family, friendship and politics in nineteenth-century France

Susan K. Foley ISBN: 978-1-5261-6153-6

Confiscating the common good: Small towns and religious politics in the French Revolution

Edward Woell ISBN: 978-1-5261-5913-7

Sport and physical culture in Occupied France: Authoritarianism, agency, and everyday life

Keith Rathbone ISBN: 978-1-5261-5328-9

Psychoanalysis and the family in twentieth-century France: Françoise Dolto and her legacy

Richard Bates ISBN: 978-1-5261-5962-5

Mutinous Memories: A Subjective History of French Military Protest in 1919

Matt Perry ISBN 9781526114105

Death and the Crown. Ritual and Politics in France before the Revolution

Anne Byrne ISBN 9781526143303

Catholicism and Children’s Literature in France: The Comtesse de Ségur (1799–1874)

Sophie Heywood ISBN 9780719084669

Aristocratic Families in Republican France, 1870–1940

Elizabeth C. MacKnight ISBN 9780719085017

The Routes to Exile: France and the Spanish Civil War Refugees, 1939–2009

Scott Soo ISBN 9780719086915

Émile and Isaac Pereire: Bankers, Socialists and Sephardic Jews in Nineteenth-Century France

Helen M. Davies ISBN 9780719089237

The Republican Line: Caricature and French Republican Identity, 1830–52

Laura O’Brien ISBN 9780719089350

From Empire to Exile: History and Memory within the Pied-Noir and Harki Communities, 1962–2012(Winner of the 2017 RHS Gladstone Prize)

Claire Eldridge ISBN 9780719087233

Robespierre and the Festival of the Supreme Being: The Search for a Republican Morality

Jonathan Smyth ISBN 9781526103789

Terror and Terroir: The Winegrowers of the Languedoc and Modern France

Andrew W. M. Smith ISBN 9781784994358

The Stadium Century: Sport, Spectatorship and Mass Society in Modern France

Robert W. Lewis ISBN 9781526106261

In Pursuit of Politics: Education and Revolution in Eighteenth-Century France

Adrian O’Connor ISBN 9781526120564

Nobility and Patrimony in Modern France

Elizabeth C. Macknight ISBN 9781526120519

Series editors:

Professor Jennifer Sessions (University of Virginia): [email protected]

Professor Julie Kalman (Monash University): [email protected]

Dr Jessica Wardhaugh (University of Warwick): [email protected]