Briony Neilson
@brionyneilson.bsky.social
Historian:19th-century France—juvenile incarceration, prisons, settler/penal colonies (esp New Caledonia)
Book "Dangers of Youth" www.mqup.ca/dangers-of-youth-products-9780228024330.php
Based in Sydney, Australia
Book "Dangers of Youth" www.mqup.ca/dangers-of-youth-products-9780228024330.php
Based in Sydney, Australia
Pinned
And delighted now to share this new research article by Charlotte Legg and me that explores settler colonial identities, shared affinities, racial politics and transimperial forms of whiteness in New Caledonia and Australia in the early 20th century. Open access: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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En 2009, Nicolas Sarkozy avait voulu décorer la mathématicienne Michèle Audin, également fille de Maurice Audin, enlevé et assassiné à Alger par l'armée française. Elle avait refusée cette légion d'honneur. Elle s'en expliquait sur France 3. mediaclip.ina.fr/fr/r21351208...
Au nom du père, la mathématicienne Michèle Audin refuse la Légion d'Honneur
Refuser la légion d'honneur proposée par Nicolas SARKOZY pour ses travaux universitaires en recherches fondamentales voilà ce que vient de faire la mathéma...
mediaclip.ina.fr
November 15, 2025 at 5:02 PM
En 2009, Nicolas Sarkozy avait voulu décorer la mathématicienne Michèle Audin, également fille de Maurice Audin, enlevé et assassiné à Alger par l'armée française. Elle avait refusée cette légion d'honneur. Elle s'en expliquait sur France 3. mediaclip.ina.fr/fr/r21351208...
So many treats to choose from at this place!
November 14, 2025 at 8:07 AM
So many treats to choose from at this place!
The magnificence of the Mer de Glace glacier in the French Alps in 1911 – autochrome by Léon Gimpel (Musée d'Orsay)
November 14, 2025 at 6:58 AM
The magnificence of the Mer de Glace glacier in the French Alps in 1911 – autochrome by Léon Gimpel (Musée d'Orsay)
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So depressing to be signing another petition to save Modern Languages, this time at Leicester. Linguistic & intercultural understanding are vital to everyone in today's world.
Save Modern Languages courses at the University of Leicester
Can you spare a minute to help this campaign?
c.org
November 14, 2025 at 5:01 AM
So depressing to be signing another petition to save Modern Languages, this time at Leicester. Linguistic & intercultural understanding are vital to everyone in today's world.
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We are delighted and relieved by Justice Kennett’s decision this afternoon, which is a significant step forward for our side, and places real restrictions on the applicants’ ability to conduct Zionist lawfare against us. @marquelawyers.com.au
November 14, 2025 at 4:05 AM
We are delighted and relieved by Justice Kennett’s decision this afternoon, which is a significant step forward for our side, and places real restrictions on the applicants’ ability to conduct Zionist lawfare against us. @marquelawyers.com.au
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I wrote a piece for @frenchhistory.bsky.social about the 40th anniversary of the French bombing of the "Rainbow Warrior."
Huge thanks to @eldrclaire.bsky.social @donalh.bsky.social @meghankroberts.bsky.social & the journal's extremely patient staff.
doi-org.proxy.lib.sfu.ca/10.1093/fh/c...
Huge thanks to @eldrclaire.bsky.social @donalh.bsky.social @meghankroberts.bsky.social & the journal's extremely patient staff.
doi-org.proxy.lib.sfu.ca/10.1093/fh/c...
November 13, 2025 at 4:31 PM
I wrote a piece for @frenchhistory.bsky.social about the 40th anniversary of the French bombing of the "Rainbow Warrior."
Huge thanks to @eldrclaire.bsky.social @donalh.bsky.social @meghankroberts.bsky.social & the journal's extremely patient staff.
doi-org.proxy.lib.sfu.ca/10.1093/fh/c...
Huge thanks to @eldrclaire.bsky.social @donalh.bsky.social @meghankroberts.bsky.social & the journal's extremely patient staff.
doi-org.proxy.lib.sfu.ca/10.1093/fh/c...
Meanwhile over on eBay: this collection of vintage miniature cigarette boxes for your dollhouse
November 13, 2025 at 4:27 AM
Meanwhile over on eBay: this collection of vintage miniature cigarette boxes for your dollhouse
Cracked the big time.
November 12, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Cracked the big time.
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Édouard Vuillard, La Villa Les Écluses, Saint-Jacut, Brittany, 1909 (distemper on paper laid down on canvas, High Museum of Art)
November 12, 2025 at 3:46 AM
Édouard Vuillard, La Villa Les Écluses, Saint-Jacut, Brittany, 1909 (distemper on paper laid down on canvas, High Museum of Art)
Édouard Vuillard, La Villa Les Écluses, Saint-Jacut, Brittany, 1909 (distemper on paper laid down on canvas, High Museum of Art)
November 12, 2025 at 3:46 AM
Édouard Vuillard, La Villa Les Écluses, Saint-Jacut, Brittany, 1909 (distemper on paper laid down on canvas, High Museum of Art)
A victory for academic freedom and the sharing of knowledge: the Palestine and Europe conference at the Collège de France will be taking place after all. In person and live-streamed, this Thursday and Friday.
November 11, 2025 at 11:14 PM
A victory for academic freedom and the sharing of knowledge: the Palestine and Europe conference at the Collège de France will be taking place after all. In person and live-streamed, this Thursday and Friday.
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I asked about this, and one of our excellent librarians discovered that in fact AI summaries/"Research Assistant" can be switched off at the level of the library. Something to request. support.proquest.com/s/article/Eb...
November 11, 2025 at 9:44 PM
I asked about this, and one of our excellent librarians discovered that in fact AI summaries/"Research Assistant" can be switched off at the level of the library. Something to request. support.proquest.com/s/article/Eb...
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Professeur au Collège de France, François Héran rend publique sur @mediapart.fr la lettre de protestation qu'il a adressé à l'administrateur du @college-de-france.fr à propos de l'annulation du colloque sur la Palestine organisé par son collègue Henry Laurens. blogs.mediapart.fr/francois-her...
Palestine au Collège de France : la protestation de François Héran
Titulaire de la chaire « Migrations et sociétés » au Collège de France, François Héran rend publique la lettre qu’il a adressé à son administrateur, Thomas Römer, à propos de l’annulation du colloque…
blogs.mediapart.fr
November 10, 2025 at 9:25 AM
Professeur au Collège de France, François Héran rend publique sur @mediapart.fr la lettre de protestation qu'il a adressé à l'administrateur du @college-de-france.fr à propos de l'annulation du colloque sur la Palestine organisé par son collègue Henry Laurens. blogs.mediapart.fr/francois-her...
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The NSW Police could have stopped it. They didn't want to. Someone should ask them why.
It's no accident that Nazis rallied in Sydney. Police waved them through — and now Minns wants to punish us all
The existing law in NSW is more than adequate to have avoided the images of Nazis outside state parliament over the weekend.
www.crikey.com.au
November 11, 2025 at 3:07 AM
The NSW Police could have stopped it. They didn't want to. Someone should ask them why.
Not the ugliest everyday urban landscape
November 10, 2025 at 8:51 AM
Not the ugliest everyday urban landscape
Wagner's overture to Die Meistersinger translated into visual art – a riotously colourful page from Annie Besant and C.W. Leadbeater's 1905 theosophical book "Thought-Forms"
November 10, 2025 at 6:34 AM
Wagner's overture to Die Meistersinger translated into visual art – a riotously colourful page from Annie Besant and C.W. Leadbeater's 1905 theosophical book "Thought-Forms"
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Par curiosité je suis allé voir le programme "controversé" et grands dieux ! C'est vraiment très provocateur... on y aurait parlé de colonisation, de sionisme, de politique européenne, ... c'est vraiment très grave. Le tout par des universitaires (enragés ?).
www.college-de-france.fr/fr/agenda/co...
www.college-de-france.fr/fr/agenda/co...
November 9, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Par curiosité je suis allé voir le programme "controversé" et grands dieux ! C'est vraiment très provocateur... on y aurait parlé de colonisation, de sionisme, de politique européenne, ... c'est vraiment très grave. Le tout par des universitaires (enragés ?).
www.college-de-france.fr/fr/agenda/co...
www.college-de-france.fr/fr/agenda/co...
I also enjoyed this exhibition. Though one work that caught my eye and whose story was not fully told – for reasons that will become clear in this thread – was this one: 'The boy with the palette' painted by Violet Teague in 1911. 1/3
November 10, 2025 at 3:33 AM
I also enjoyed this exhibition. Though one work that caught my eye and whose story was not fully told – for reasons that will become clear in this thread – was this one: 'The boy with the palette' painted by Violet Teague in 1911. 1/3
“It’s Princess Anne’s first trip to Australia since 2022” 🙃
November 8, 2025 at 11:23 PM
“It’s Princess Anne’s first trip to Australia since 2022” 🙃
Thoroughly abhorrent – all of it.
Police allowed Nazi rally outside NSW parliament
More than 60 people attended Saturday morning’s rally after notifying police more than a week ago. The police commissioner said he had no idea it was going to happen.
www.smh.com.au
November 8, 2025 at 6:57 AM
Thoroughly abhorrent – all of it.
The study of modern languages is under threat at the University of Nottingham - sign the petition
Please consider signing against this nonsensical absurdity! c.org/vGgNqmXhNx
Sign the Petition
Stop the removal of Modern Languages courses at the University of Nottingham!
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November 7, 2025 at 11:32 PM
The study of modern languages is under threat at the University of Nottingham - sign the petition
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And now up online from our open access special issue is this brilliant article by Nick Hoare on how seemingly opposing British and French imperial and commercial forces in the phosphate-rich island of Makatea (today part of French Polynesia) in fact helped solidify one another's colonial interests 👀
‘He Wished We Did Not Look So Thoroughly English’: Competition and Co-Imperialism on a French Polynesian Phosphate Island
The Compagnie française des Phosphates de l’Océanie mined phosphate rock on Makatea, a raised coral atoll in the Établissements français de l’Océanie (now French Polynesia) from 1908 to 1966. Despi...
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November 7, 2025 at 5:38 AM
And now up online from our open access special issue is this brilliant article by Nick Hoare on how seemingly opposing British and French imperial and commercial forces in the phosphate-rich island of Makatea (today part of French Polynesia) in fact helped solidify one another's colonial interests 👀
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Il y a 1 mois, @paulineteyssier.bsky.social soutenait sa thèse, menée sous la direction de Jean-Luc Chappey et intitulée "Encadrer et soigner la folie : une histoire politique, matérielle et sociale de l’hospice de Charenton (1797-1825)". L'occasion de redécouvrir ses travaux ! pdca.st/Wu75
Soigner la folie à Charenton (1797-1825) - Pauline Teyssier - OpCit !
Soigner la folie à Charenton (1797-1825) avec Pauline Teyssier
Quelle place pour la folie dans la cité ? Que fait la Révolution française des citoyens qu’elle appréhende, interne et soigne comme de...
pdca.st
November 5, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Il y a 1 mois, @paulineteyssier.bsky.social soutenait sa thèse, menée sous la direction de Jean-Luc Chappey et intitulée "Encadrer et soigner la folie : une histoire politique, matérielle et sociale de l’hospice de Charenton (1797-1825)". L'occasion de redécouvrir ses travaux ! pdca.st/Wu75
Really only a matter of time before some downloadable app comes along providing a background soundtrack to your life and which automatically pauses before (it guesses) you're about to utter an everyday mediocre punchline and then inserts the sound of sharp intake of breath/canned laughter.
i can’t even articulate how much i despise when the music pauses in a film trailer to emphasise a mediocre punchline
November 7, 2025 at 1:58 AM
Really only a matter of time before some downloadable app comes along providing a background soundtrack to your life and which automatically pauses before (it guesses) you're about to utter an everyday mediocre punchline and then inserts the sound of sharp intake of breath/canned laughter.
A true delight to see James Findlay's brilliant new book "Caught on Screen: Australia’s Convict History in Film and Television" launched with the fanfare it deserves at Sydney Uni last night, with ringing endorsements from Michelle Arrow and Mike McDonnell. Congratulations James!
November 7, 2025 at 12:55 AM
A true delight to see James Findlay's brilliant new book "Caught on Screen: Australia’s Convict History in Film and Television" launched with the fanfare it deserves at Sydney Uni last night, with ringing endorsements from Michelle Arrow and Mike McDonnell. Congratulations James!