French History Starter Pack
A starter pack for French and Francophone historians, any time period.
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@drsepinwall.bsky.social
@plso.bsky.social
| Historian of France, technology, and cities | e/ludd | 🇧🇷🇺🇸🇫🇷🇸🇬🇪🇸 | You can find out more about me at http://www.patrickdeoliveira.com |
@mattjrobertshaw.bsky.social
> Historian of Haiti and the second French colonial empire > Newspaper republisher @ Black Republic of Letters > Video essayist @ Sleeper Hit History > Guitar player @ The Relative Minors > Elbows-up Canadian > JJ & Wes's dad
@mtthboisdron.bsky.social
🇫🇷🇪🇺🇭🇺🇷🇴 Docteur en histoire (Sorbonne Université) | XXe s. | Histoire politique | Histoire des relations internationales | Histoire de l’Europe médiane | 📚➡️ https://cv.hal.science/matthieu-boisdron
@ggglimpopo.bsky.social
Bangs on about 17th century French nuns and noble rot. Inordinately fond of other people’s books. Reads. Writes. Cooks. Brazen reposter.
@asteinlight.bsky.social
Historian of France’s archives, memory, secrecy, aftermath of war. Contingent lecturer and exhausted parent.
@thesiecle.com
A history podcast by @dhmontgomery.com covering France's overlooked century between Napoleon and World War I. Annotated transcripts at thesiecle.com!
@lafayettepodcast.com
French History Podcast by a Frenchman. Learn all about France's history: Charlemagne, The Hundred Years’ War, Louis XIV, the Révolution, Napoléon and more! 🇫🇷⚜️ https://linktr.ee/lafayettepodcast
@e-berthiaud.bsky.social
Historienne XVIIIe-XIXe. Hist. femmes, genre, médecine, parentalité, enfance. Maîtresse de conférences à l'UPJV d'Amiens, CHSSC
@spe07.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Political Science Research on Abolition of passports, Free Movement, Political theory, Migration studies University Paris Cité @upcite.bsky.social https://u-paris.academia.edu/SperantaDumitru
@duhaut.bsky.social
Lecturer in Modern European Jewish History at the University of Southampton. Based at @historyatsoton.bsky.social & @parkesinstitute.bsky.social
@engleberthistorian.bsky.social
Historian of French Colonial, Early America/Canada, French-Indigenous relations, long 18th century.
@thomaslalevee.bsky.social
Researcher at ANU, based in Melbourne. Father of two. Working on a book on early French social science
@jamborg.bsky.social
History of science PhD candidate at Uppsala Uni working on animal breeding and natural history in 18th-century France | Currently visitor in Cambridge HPS
@rouge1767.bsky.social
Historian of medicine, forensic expertise, bodies, and gender in early modern France
@gwendalpiegais.bsky.social
Post-Doc @ucddublin.bsky.social • Dr. @univbrest.bsky.social • Historian #Russia #Ukraine #WW1 #CivilWar • Publisher Éd. Codex & Éd. Plein Jour Ongoing project: The Age of Civil Wars in Europe, c. 1914-1949 (https://civil-wars.eu/members/paul-huddie-2/)
@tombhamilton.bsky.social
Historian of early modern France and Europe; crime, justice, gender, Wars of Religion; co-editor of French History; structuralish 📖📚 ⚖️🌳🏃🇫🇷🇩🇪🇪🇺
@kejamieson.bsky.social
Short For Bob. Naval & Maritime Historian. AFRHistS Royal Historical Society. Council Member: Society for Nautical Research. PhD Student @ Exeter Uni. Day Job in Offshore Security. Rower. Owned by a Dog 🐾 katejamieson.co.uk / IG: katejamieson_
@ayates.bsky.social
Historian of modern Europe, global urban history, history of economic life. Florence/Manchester/Paris/Toronto/St.John’s.
@jenwhy.bsky.social
Oxford prof. French and world cultures. Literature and visual arts & all things 19thC. Slow city cyclist. Don't ask me where I'm from, it takes too long to explain.
@valeriedeacon.bsky.social
Historian of Modern France, the extreme-right, and the French Resistance. Working in curriculum development (teaching and learning spaces) and student success at TMU. Parent of a very sassy young child.
@karinabwendling.com
Historian of 18/19c. Religion, education & politics in Ireland, Haiti, and transatlantic empires Associate Professor (MCF) @Univ_Lorraine @IDEA_UL Ass. Researcher LEM-CNRS Coord. MIRCOM project MSH -Lorraine RHS ECR 🇨🇵🇫🇮 karinabenazechwendling.wordpress.com
@emilyherring.bsky.social
Writer My biography of Henri Bergson – Herald of a Restless World – is out now! "The most intellectually stimulating book I read this year.” John Banville Bylines Aeon, The TLS, The New European She/Her https://linktr.ee/eherring
@quellekelsey.bsky.social
Assoc. Professor of French. 20th/21st-C Literature and Memory Studies. War, migration, monuments, national identity, religion & laïcité. Confessional Lutheran.
@drlandislife.bsky.social
African feminist, researcher & author researching land grabs, food, labour, politics & feminism in West Africa & Global South| https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8681-8476
@drlauratx.bsky.social
Docteure en histoire moderne. Avortements et cadavres. Médecine légale. Archives. Chercheuse au CNRS (ex-proffe) Féministe. Daronne en PLS.
@rmesch.bsky.social
I teach French lit sometimes in English @ Boston U. Also history, visual, popular & material culture, gender & sex at the fin de siècle, photography & mass press. Books: Before Trans; Having it All in the Belle Époque; The Hysteric’s Revenge.
@cernach.bsky.social
MCF sourd à Paris 8, histoire des sourds et du noétomalalien; petit scenariste d’une BD, aime la Sci-Fi/fantazy (essaie d’en écrire) regarde les etoiles, http://noetomalalie.hypotheses.org
@sandrabree.bsky.social
Historical demographer ( France, Paris, suburbs) Childlessness, (non-marital) fert Singlehood, divorce, singlehood Historienne et démographe CNRS-LARHRA Projets POPP et EXO-POPP Resp. pôle données historiques Progedo Resp. médias sociaux de @sdh-demohisto
@pernilleblues.bsky.social
Historian of the French and Danish colonial empires, political economy, slavery, and abolition. Mom of two little vikings. Author of "Economistes and the Reinvention of Empire".
@arosensweigbskysoc.bsky.social
Reader. Writer. Prof. of French and Visual Culture. Writing a book about early modern Protestant resistance theory and Christian nationalism in the 21st-Century United States. Views my own.
@jlanza.bsky.social
Hockey fan, French historian, chair of History department at Wayne State University, native New Yorker, current Midwest enthusiast
@caricampbell.bsky.social
Historian, 20th century France, fascism, colonialism, and gender. Professor at the University of North Dakota.
@eichnercarolyn.bsky.social
Historian 19th c. France & empire; gender, race, & sexuality; social movements; Paris Commune; names.
@emmakuby.bsky.social
Modern European historian @ UW-Madison. France, transnational activism, violence, aftermaths. Author of Political Survivors (Cornell 2019).
@willpooley.bsky.social
historian of witchcraft, folklore, tarot, france, 18-20th c creative histories ed. Cambridge Elements in Magic assoc. ed. @FrenchHistory aspiring acronymancer
@mmompointphd.bsky.social
In a land without laws, the lawless reign. Humanities; French; Lat. Am. & Carib. Arts & Cultures; Francophone world; African diaspora; media studies; jazz; textiles Televising Transnational Trauma (LUP 2025) https://floridaheritageproject.com
@nickytheprof.bsky.social
Writes, hikes, cooks, reads a lot of old books. Historian of (mostly) #earlymodern science, medicine, environment, animals, food. Cranky old cat lady. Editor in chief, Notes and Records: the Royal Society Journal for the History of Science. SoCal
@alexchurchill.bsky.social
FRHistS Royal/Military Historian Director @greatwargroup 🕯️ www.istoriatravel.org ✈️ Rep: @donaldwin.bsky.social 📚 #CFC ⚽️ #WW1 #WW2 🏴 But frequently bangs on about the French 🇫🇷 https://achurchill.substack.com
@jimsmithson.bsky.social
Military historian. Great War Group Trustee. Written a couple of Great War books plus articles. Francophile, but also lived 30+ years in Germany so pretty European in outlook.
@achatenetc.bsky.social
Rennaise Maîtresse de conférences en Histoire moderne 18e siècle Genre Culture matérielle et consommation Cour de France #ESR
@drninastuder.bsky.social
Historian, IEH2, University of Geneva History of medicine & psychiatry, gender issues & drinking studies in the colonial Maghreb. Current: https://wetdreams.hypotheses.org/ 🗃️🍸 Passionate about literature and theatre. She/her https://nina-studer.com
@biblioraphic.bsky.social
Assistant Librarian in Cambridge, AHRC-funded PhD student at UEA and the British Library, book hoarder at home
@frenchhistory.bsky.social
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.
@vandawilcox.bsky.social
professional procrastinator, precarious historian, cat serf, romanista. Writes about the First World War, Italy, imperialism & Georgette Heyer, not usually all at once.🪡🥧🐈⬛️
@drjannmatlock.bsky.social
Visual representation and French cultural history 1789-1914. Comments and likes are my own and do not implicate my employer. https://jannmatlock.weebly.com/
@100days1815.bsky.social
Professor of French Studies, working on the culture of French Revolution and Napoleonic period. Committed to supporting the learning of languages in schools & universities and to public engagement.
@profliztingle.bsky.social
Professor Emerita of History, DMU, Leicester UK Works on Early modern European religious belief and practice; church art and archaeology; landscapes and heritage. Amateur nature lover. Tortoise fan.
@unamcilvenna.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer at ANU who writes about – and sometimes sings – ballads about executions, disasters, military conflicts & politics from the 16th to the 19th century. Personal website: unamcilvenna.com
@amandasvincent.bsky.social
French Studies professor, studying post-1968 cities, gardens, and landscape and posting about all kinds of stuff https://www.pennpress.org/9781512823851/constructing-gardens-cultivating-the-city/
@pspiesgans.bsky.social
Writer, historian, & art historian, #womenartists, A Revolution on Canvas (YUP), writing A New Story of Art (Doubleday) parisaspiesgans.com
@playingcleo.bsky.social
Historian of modern 🇫🇷. Gender, celebrity, beauty. Professor at the University of Alabama. Friend to all creatures furry and feathered.
@vreinburg.bsky.social
Historian. Feminist. France. Hawai’i. Author of Storied Places (Cambridge UP 2019). NO KINGS
@vlvde.bsky.social
PhD student @Unistra & @EHESS | Early modern history | researching gender: esp. science and masculinities in 18c. France | IEG Mainz Fellow 2023 | Music enthusiast
@frenchhistto.bsky.social
French History Seminar / Séminaire d'Histoire de France, Toronto, Canada (profile images: http://Europeana.eu) Posts by @SchotteMargaret
@drangelabuckley.bsky.social
Crime historian and author. Victorian crime, police detectives and history of forensic science. New book: The Bermondsey Murder. Rep Past Preservers. Also languages, literature, genealogy and travel. FE College governor. http://drangelabuckley.substack.com
@sianhibbert.bsky.social
(Almost finished) History PhD at Uni of York - early modern France, interpersonal violence, disputes and enmities, gender, social relations, urban and rural communities.
@sarageorgini.bsky.social
Historian & Series Editor, The Adams Papers, MHS. PhD.📚Household Gods, Our Library in Paris, Oxford Handbook of Family History & Genealogy, Americans in Revolution. President, @susih.bsky.social. Views mine, history for all.
@vbivar.bsky.social
Historian of capitalism, pollution, Marseille, farming, land use, plastics, climate, and economic growth; misanthrope; hockey player; expert baker; amateur gardener; St Anne's College at Oxford 🇨🇦
@kmcdono.bsky.social
American in the UK. History + DH Lancaster University & The Alan Turing Institute. MapReader. Formerly Living with Machines. Writing a book about people & highways in 18th c. France. https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/history/about/people/katherine-mcdonough
@sihambouamer.bsky.social
University of Cincinnati-Travel writing-Postcolonial literature and film-Maghrebi & Gender studies. #DDFC #CFCIntersections
@robtaber.bsky.social
Historian of Haiti 🇭🇹 and democracy in the Americas at Fayetteville State. Working for a welcoming + transformative UNC System. Formerly US ED Center for Faith-Based & Neighborhood Partnerships. Occasional live-poster of obscure panels and events.
@ecrosshistory.bsky.social
Associate Professor of History @Georgetown @GUHistory @CASGeorgetown Author of COMPANY POLITICS, @OUPHistory 2023 : http://bit.ly/3wqKVgp
@jessiehewitt.bsky.social
Historian (gender, disability, psychiatry). I have cute cats. https://www.jessiehewitt.com
@tgpeterson.bsky.social
Parent. Gardener. Anti-fascist. Historian of Modern France, North Africa, Counterinsurgency, Migration. Curmudgeon. Associate Prof. No Tyrants, No Kings. Terrencepeterson.com https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501776960/revolutionary-warfare
@eparpillee.bsky.social
Early modern France, eating. Compassion's Edge (2018); now writing on 17thc rivers. I also like cats. Oxford mostly, Cévennes when I can. Trans-inclusive feminist, she/her.
@andrewyoung.bsky.social
PhDing in Haitian Political Thought, reading the classics wrong, and occasionally doing politics.
@pgoldsworthy.bsky.social
Historian of visual culture, North Africa, and French imperialism
@richardckeller.bsky.social
Chair of MedHist/Bioethics at UW School of Medicine and Public Health. Author of Fatal Isolation from the University of Chicago Press (https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/F/bo20145393.html). Bicycles/dogs. Views mine. He, him, his.
@richardivanjobs.bsky.social
Historian | In the Land of the Lacandón | Backpack Ambassadors | Riding the New Wave | Transnational Histories of Youth | Portland | Pacific University
@rlspang.bsky.social
Professor of History, sometimes administrator at big public university in Midwest. Writes about money, French Revolution, restaurants. Friend to vert paleo. ex UCL History; Yale SOM Visiting Fellow; Guggenheim and New America Fellow. once/future Mainer
@jecca.bsky.social
Editor at the Abusable Past, Radical History Review collective, professionally a historian, teaching at Duke. Film school dropout. Wrote *Unsettling Utopia: The Making and Unmaking of French India* (Columbia UP, 2021) she/her
@sjzimmerman.bsky.social
Historian, gender, West Africa, French imperialism, militarization, Author of Militarizing Marriage (Ohio UP 2020). Past-présidente of French Colonial Historical Society, BCDSS alum, recovering Oakland As Fan, PNW hiking/backpacking
@brionyneilson.bsky.social
Historian of 19th-century France—incarceration of juveniles, prisons, settler/penal colonies (esp New Caledonia). Book out soon "Dangers of Youth" www.mqup.ca/dangers-of-youth-products-9780228024330.php. Based in Sydney, Australia
@cglenn.bsky.social
Historian of the Haitian Revolution, early United States, Atlantic World, & women. Social media editor at Age of Revolutions. ☕️ 🍷🐈🦮
@ekphrastictactic.bsky.social
historian, cook, baker, swimmer Professional Assistant Professor of History at TAMU-CC. CUNY-Grad Alum. All tweets reflect me not any institutional affiliation.
@chcarroll.bsky.social
Associate Professor of History @kcollege. Modern France, imperialism, politics, culture. Views my own. https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501763083/the-politics-of-imperial-memory-in-france/
@kellybrignac.bsky.social
Asst Prof of History - Atlantic, French Empire, Slavery/Abolition. It's the Gulf of Mexico
@heidikl.bsky.social
Historian of 17th-18thc France, colonies, nuns, religious texts, med recipes, gender/sex. I teach teachers, writers, voyagers, & other curious minds. I hang out with beagles, sons, sisters (blood and soul), & my first love. #earlymodernwomen #nuntastic
@elisefranklin.bsky.social
Historian of France, decolonization, gender at UofL. Still working out my relationship to social media.
@hannahfrydman.bsky.social
Assistant Prof of French @ Harvard. c19-20; gender/sexuality; print culture; queer lit & reading. Between the Sheets: Sexuality, Classified Advertising and the Moral Threat to Press Freedom in France coming soon from Cornell 🌈🌱 😷♾️
@corinnegressang.bsky.social
Historian of the French Revolution. Dog mom. Auntie. Learner. Any posts here do not reflect my employer.
@proftilburg.bsky.social
Historian of France/labor/gender/sex, history prof and chair. Author, _Working Girls_ on sexual politics of 19c-20c Parisian garment trades; & _Colette’s Republic_ on belle epoque popular culture. she/her https://patriciatilburg.com/
@ncshusterman.bsky.social
Dad, husband, historian, risk-averse outdoorsman. Wandering Jew. Disillusioned world citizen.
@1789revolution.bsky.social
Historian of the French Revolution. Currently interested in rumors circulating in Paris in June 1789.
@profmkbyrnes.bsky.social
Historian @SouthwesternU. France, empire, migration, race, rights, activism. Author of Making Space (UNP). Mama. She/her.
@djshistorian.bsky.social
Historian of modern France, museums, visual culture, commemoration; Prof of Art History & History, UNC Chapel Hill
@finbrower.bsky.social
PhD. Studied French Revolution. Current research on masculinity in 19thC Haiti. Pronouns: he/him
@lm8son.bsky.social
History & critical film studies (France). Author of The Last Revolutionaries; editor of Imaginaries. Flaneuse. Speaking only for myself.
@bmrosenstein.bsky.social
PhD from University at Buffalo | Early Modern/Modern French views of North Africa | Education, translators, and community/belonging | They/He
@franrbell.bsky.social
VAP in History at Bates College; W&M and Woodson Institute alum. Researching mobility, the Haitian revolutionary diaspora, and freedom-seeking in the early United States. Handy with a knitting needle, happy on a bicycle. She/her.
@jean23bean.bsky.social
Sociologist @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social @cunygcsociology.bsky.social @NorthwesternU alum. Author #CitizenOutsider @ucpress.bsky.social. AE @identitiesjournal.bsky.social. Research on race/racism/France & US. Yoga lover & sarcasm expert
@cofo.bsky.social
Cultural history of the French 19th century @ Austin College. Book review editor @ NCFS. “Culture of War” now out in paperback https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-culture-of-war-9781837644131
@camcord.bsky.social
PhD Student in Early Modern History. Saint-Domingue, Le Cap-Français, Urban History of the Caribbean, Food and Consumption, Spatial Analysis. Creator of the project : https://streetsoflecap.com/
@davidandress.bsky.social
Historian of revolution, pessimistic anarchist. Nobody else wants these views, trust me. 'His real face is a hat' - Fern Riddell.
@dmk1793.bsky.social
Historian, think tank researcher, and co-editor of @renewaljournal.bsky.social