Dr Francesca Berry (she/her)
@francescaberry.bsky.social
Art Historian| Associate
Professor 19-20C French Art| author of Édouard Vuillard, the Nabis, and the Politics of Domesticity (2025)| MY VIEWS| Arsenal ♥️🤍
https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/staff/profiles/historyofart/berry-francesca
Professor 19-20C French Art| author of Édouard Vuillard, the Nabis, and the Politics of Domesticity (2025)| MY VIEWS| Arsenal ♥️🤍
https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/staff/profiles/historyofart/berry-francesca
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📕 My book, Édouard Vuillard, the Nabis, and the Politics of Domesticity, to be published by Bloomsbury Visual Arts @BloomsburyAcad has a cover and has gone to press! 💃
I am incredibly grateful to the 4 reviewers whose lovely comments grace the back cover.😊
🧵1/5
I am incredibly grateful to the 4 reviewers whose lovely comments grace the back cover.😊
🧵1/5
I am delighted to announce that today is my book’s publication day!!! 🎉
📕 Édouard Vuillard, the Nabis, and the Politics of Domesticity is in print (and ebook) with @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social
It looks gorgeous. It feels chunky. I couldn’t be happier! 😊
📕 Édouard Vuillard, the Nabis, and the Politics of Domesticity is in print (and ebook) with @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social
It looks gorgeous. It feels chunky. I couldn’t be happier! 😊
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Declan Rice we got him half price ♥️🤍
January 3, 2026 at 7:33 PM
Declan Rice we got him half price ♥️🤍
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Amazing record for the FIFA
January 3, 2026 at 3:46 PM
Amazing record for the FIFA
Excited that my first speaking event of 2026 is a virtual book salon co-hosted by the Association of Historians of Nineteenth-Century Art and the Dahesh Museum of Art, New York.
Please join me and other panellists for conversation about the books on 19th century art we published in 2025. 😊
Please join me and other panellists for conversation about the books on 19th century art we published in 2025. 😊
January 2, 2026 at 11:11 AM
Excited that my first speaking event of 2026 is a virtual book salon co-hosted by the Association of Historians of Nineteenth-Century Art and the Dahesh Museum of Art, New York.
Please join me and other panellists for conversation about the books on 19th century art we published in 2025. 😊
Please join me and other panellists for conversation about the books on 19th century art we published in 2025. 😊
Today, I finished reading the first of many books I hope to read in 2026: Isabella Hammad’s really excellent Hamlet in Palestine novel, Enter Ghost (2024).
January 1, 2026 at 9:55 PM
Today, I finished reading the first of many books I hope to read in 2026: Isabella Hammad’s really excellent Hamlet in Palestine novel, Enter Ghost (2024).
December 31, 2025 at 4:28 PM
the luxury of the Boxing Day siesta :)
December 26, 2025 at 4:27 PM
the luxury of the Boxing Day siesta :)
Henri Matisse, Nuit de Noël 1952. Stained glass window.
December 24, 2025 at 6:55 AM
Henri Matisse, Nuit de Noël 1952. Stained glass window.
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The ambiguous intimacy of the census: women workers sort through forms in the French census office in Paris in 1911 (Gallica, BnF) 🗃️
December 19, 2025 at 12:08 AM
The ambiguous intimacy of the census: women workers sort through forms in the French census office in Paris in 1911 (Gallica, BnF) 🗃️
I am very happy to see my January 2025 book, Édouard Vuillard, the Nabis, and the Politics of Domesticity, has been very positively reviewed by Katrin Pirner in Sehepunkte.
www.sehepunkte.de/2025/12/4035...
www.sehepunkte.de/2025/12/4035...
December 17, 2025 at 7:48 AM
I am very happy to see my January 2025 book, Édouard Vuillard, the Nabis, and the Politics of Domesticity, has been very positively reviewed by Katrin Pirner in Sehepunkte.
www.sehepunkte.de/2025/12/4035...
www.sehepunkte.de/2025/12/4035...
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F/T: 2-1 Arsenal.
Three crucial points, now let's never talk about this game again.
Three crucial points, now let's never talk about this game again.
December 13, 2025 at 9:58 PM
F/T: 2-1 Arsenal.
Three crucial points, now let's never talk about this game again.
Three crucial points, now let's never talk about this game again.
getting excited now🎄
December 6, 2025 at 8:19 PM
getting excited now🎄
Rich Art History institution gets even richer, hoovers up even more students it cannot accommodate, and destroys Art History as an academic discipline taught across the UK. And we’re supposed to cheer. Nope.
November 27, 2025 at 11:49 PM
Rich Art History institution gets even richer, hoovers up even more students it cannot accommodate, and destroys Art History as an academic discipline taught across the UK. And we’re supposed to cheer. Nope.
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That second half from Arsenal was fucking sensational. As good as you could possibly hope to put in against a team as good as this.
Bossed it 100%. Madueke with his first goal, and then Martinelli, no less than we deserved. And Bayern offered NOTHING after the break.
Hello Europe, we're Arsenal
Bossed it 100%. Madueke with his first goal, and then Martinelli, no less than we deserved. And Bayern offered NOTHING after the break.
Hello Europe, we're Arsenal
November 26, 2025 at 9:56 PM
That second half from Arsenal was fucking sensational. As good as you could possibly hope to put in against a team as good as this.
Bossed it 100%. Madueke with his first goal, and then Martinelli, no less than we deserved. And Bayern offered NOTHING after the break.
Hello Europe, we're Arsenal
Bossed it 100%. Madueke with his first goal, and then Martinelli, no less than we deserved. And Bayern offered NOTHING after the break.
Hello Europe, we're Arsenal
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Solidarity to all affected Nottingham University
staff.
The dismantling of language teaching in UK schools & unis is a disgrace.
Detrimental also to other teaching & research disciplines for which foreign languages are key skills. There’s more to life and research than the Anglophonic.
staff.
The dismantling of language teaching in UK schools & unis is a disgrace.
Detrimental also to other teaching & research disciplines for which foreign languages are key skills. There’s more to life and research than the Anglophonic.
I am hearing that @uniofnottingham.bsky.social is suspending (i.e shutting down) *all modern language courses* in 2026-27. One of the largest departments in the UK. A shocking short sighted move that damages regional and national prospects @britishacademy.bsky.social @hetanshah.bsky.social
November 8, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Solidarity to all affected Nottingham University
staff.
The dismantling of language teaching in UK schools & unis is a disgrace.
Detrimental also to other teaching & research disciplines for which foreign languages are key skills. There’s more to life and research than the Anglophonic.
staff.
The dismantling of language teaching in UK schools & unis is a disgrace.
Detrimental also to other teaching & research disciplines for which foreign languages are key skills. There’s more to life and research than the Anglophonic.
University of Birmingham is offering fully- and partially-funded scholarships for Arts & Humanities doctoral research students. Details in the link.
I am very interested to hear from prospective research students wishing to work in the fields of:
www.birmingham.ac.uk/study/schola...
I am very interested to hear from prospective research students wishing to work in the fields of:
www.birmingham.ac.uk/study/schola...
College of Arts and Law Doctoral Scholarships - University of Birmingham
Fully-funded and partially-funded scholarships for doctoral research students studying in the College of Arts of Law in the 2026/27 academic year onwards
www.birmingham.ac.uk
November 5, 2025 at 9:50 AM
University of Birmingham is offering fully- and partially-funded scholarships for Arts & Humanities doctoral research students. Details in the link.
I am very interested to hear from prospective research students wishing to work in the fields of:
www.birmingham.ac.uk/study/schola...
I am very interested to hear from prospective research students wishing to work in the fields of:
www.birmingham.ac.uk/study/schola...
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Lost grave of daughter of Black abolitionist Olaudah Equiano found by A-level student
Lost grave of daughter of Black abolitionist Olaudah Equiano found by A-level student
Fitzwilliam Museum has uncovered student’s work from 1977 that revealed Cambridgeshire location of child’s burial place
An A-level pupil found the lost grave of the Black abolitionist Olaudah Equiano’s daughter, revealing a story of love and solidarity in 18th-century rural England.
Olaudah Equiano (1745-1797), also known as Gustavus Vassa, escaped enslavement to become a celebrated author and campaigner in Georgian England. His memoir, The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African, was a bestseller. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 1, 2025 at 6:26 AM
Lost grave of daughter of Black abolitionist Olaudah Equiano found by A-level student
‘Imagination abandoned by reason produces impossible monsters; united with her, she is the mother of the arts and source of their wonders.’
Francisco Goya’s caption to Plate 43, The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters from Los Caprichos, 1799, etching, aquatint, drypoint, and burin. 🦇🦉🐈⬛
Francisco Goya’s caption to Plate 43, The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters from Los Caprichos, 1799, etching, aquatint, drypoint, and burin. 🦇🦉🐈⬛
October 31, 2025 at 10:31 PM
‘Imagination abandoned by reason produces impossible monsters; united with her, she is the mother of the arts and source of their wonders.’
Francisco Goya’s caption to Plate 43, The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters from Los Caprichos, 1799, etching, aquatint, drypoint, and burin. 🦇🦉🐈⬛
Francisco Goya’s caption to Plate 43, The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters from Los Caprichos, 1799, etching, aquatint, drypoint, and burin. 🦇🦉🐈⬛
Today seems as good a day as any to covet Delacroix’s Liberty Leading the People (1830) given it commemorates the July Revolution of 1830 and its toppling of King Charles X…
October 30, 2025 at 11:30 PM
Today seems as good a day as any to covet Delacroix’s Liberty Leading the People (1830) given it commemorates the July Revolution of 1830 and its toppling of King Charles X…
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Beautiful goal that. ♥️🤍#Arsenal
October 21, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Beautiful goal that. ♥️🤍#Arsenal