Booking will close on Friday 26th September 2025 at 12 noon.
Due to limited resources we are UNABLE TO ACCEPT LATE BOOKINGS after this date.
This course will take place ONLINE on ZOOM.
Wednesday evenings 6.30 - 8.30pm for five weeks, 1st October - 29th October 2025.
How did women participate in the French Revolution? Were they motivated by the same factors? What spheres of action were readily available or made available to them during the Revolution? Over five weeks, the group will have the opportunity to explore how women participated in revolutionary society, including food riots, activism, writing, and counter-revolutionary activities. Participants will examine and discuss translated primary source material, such as testimonies from the Châtelet inquiries into the October Days and the regulations of the Society of Revolutionary Republican Women. These interactive sessions will allow students to do history rather than just know about it.
Tutor: Sam Dobbie
Sam Dobbie graduated with a PhD history from the University of Glasgow. Her specialism is women’s political agency in eighteenth-century revolutionary Paris. However, she also has interests in France in the long nineteenth-century more broadly. She has worked as a PhD student tutor at the University of Glasgow, teaching on courses such as History 2A: The Social and Cultural History of Europe, 1500-2000, France: Nation, Revolution and Empire, 1789-1914 and Becoming an Historian. She has also taught on the Glasgow Caledonian module The Rise of Western Societies, 1789-1914 and provided temporary teaching cover for the University of Exeter on France and Empire, 1756-1830.
Course Code 09 109
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