Peter McPhee
@petermcphee.bsky.social
Historian of France
Chair of the History Council of Victoria, Australia
Emeritus Professor, University of Melbourne
Latest book: An Environmental History of France, 1770-2020
https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/environmental-history-of-france-9781350523852/
Chair of the History Council of Victoria, Australia
Emeritus Professor, University of Melbourne
Latest book: An Environmental History of France, 1770-2020
https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/environmental-history-of-france-9781350523852/
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I'm honoured to be speaking to @petermcphee.bsky.social on Mon 6 Oct at 1pm AEDT about my book Dangers of Youth: Age, Criminality, and Juvenile Justice Reform in Third Republic France at an online event hosted by the George Rudé Society. Please register here: uni-sydney.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
September 15, 2025 at 9:23 AM
I'm honoured to be speaking to @petermcphee.bsky.social on Mon 6 Oct at 1pm AEDT about my book Dangers of Youth: Age, Criminality, and Juvenile Justice Reform in Third Republic France at an online event hosted by the George Rudé Society. Please register here: uni-sydney.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
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The patterns look interesting.
I was having a poke around The Lady's Magazine bcos it has a bizarre 'biographical article' on Max in the Sept 1794 issue, which incl the utterly spurious claim he was a shop porter in Dublin for a time. And there's an engraving, but am not sure it counts as a pin-up.
I was having a poke around The Lady's Magazine bcos it has a bizarre 'biographical article' on Max in the Sept 1794 issue, which incl the utterly spurious claim he was a shop porter in Dublin for a time. And there's an engraving, but am not sure it counts as a pin-up.
May 14, 2025 at 12:15 AM
The commemoration of the massive (and tragic) Donghak peasant rebellion of 1894 in Jeongeup, South Korea. The columns refer to the 90 places involved and the names of the identified victims are added to each year. The ring reminds us never to forget. There is no memorial like this to 1789 in France.
May 9, 2025 at 11:32 AM
The commemoration of the massive (and tragic) Donghak peasant rebellion of 1894 in Jeongeup, South Korea. The columns refer to the 90 places involved and the names of the identified victims are added to each year. The ring reminds us never to forget. There is no memorial like this to 1789 in France.
Brilliant article by Brooke Boney on why acknowledging First Peoples matters and the real reason why some people won't.
www.theage.com.au/national/wel...
www.theage.com.au/national/wel...
Welcome to Country is not an election issue, so why are we talking about it? I think I know
If this Welcome to Country furore has shifted your vote, perhaps it’s time to come clean on your motivations.
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May 3, 2025 at 12:39 AM
Brilliant article by Brooke Boney on why acknowledging First Peoples matters and the real reason why some people won't.
www.theage.com.au/national/wel...
www.theage.com.au/national/wel...
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Il y a des mots auxquels on attache une importance particulière. C'est le cas de ceux de Claude Mazauric, immense historien de la Révolution. La recension de notre livre "Haro sur les Jacobins" qu'il propose dans La Marseillaise de ce jour est un grand honneur.
"Un essai magnifique". Merci Claude 🙏
"Un essai magnifique". Merci Claude 🙏
March 22, 2025 at 10:03 AM
A superb example of environmental history which integrates sensory experience, cultural identity, art, politics and economics in a beautifully written and gorgeous book.
March 18, 2025 at 2:17 AM
A superb example of environmental history which integrates sensory experience, cultural identity, art, politics and economics in a beautifully written and gorgeous book.
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🎬 Sixième intervention de la première édition des Rencontres des fictions historiques
La légende noire de la Révolution française : l’imaginaire complotiste dans les jeux vidéo sur la période révolutionnaire (1789-1799) par Hugo Orain
Ici : www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cm_F...
La légende noire de la Révolution française : l’imaginaire complotiste dans les jeux vidéo sur la période révolutionnaire (1789-1799) par Hugo Orain
Ici : www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cm_F...
March 16, 2025 at 9:32 AM
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Macron made Trump “the first president in history who had to be interrupted and corrected by an ally when the president of the United States was lying and lying about that ally”
www.huffpost.com/entry/lawren...
www.huffpost.com/entry/lawren...
Trump Dragged After Being ‘Fully Humiliated On The World Stage’
Donald Trump was “humiliated and exposed in a way that no previous president ever could be," said MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell.
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February 25, 2025 at 7:40 AM
Macron made Trump “the first president in history who had to be interrupted and corrected by an ally when the president of the United States was lying and lying about that ally”
www.huffpost.com/entry/lawren...
www.huffpost.com/entry/lawren...
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February 15, 2025 at 10:57 AM
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🎉 We are excited to join the history community here at BlueSky as the peak body for history in the Australian state of Victoria!
Follow us for updates about HCV events, advocacy, news and opportunities. We have a bumper calendar coming up in 2025!
➡️ Learn more: www.historycouncilvic.org.au
Follow us for updates about HCV events, advocacy, news and opportunities. We have a bumper calendar coming up in 2025!
➡️ Learn more: www.historycouncilvic.org.au
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February 12, 2025 at 11:44 PM
🎉 We are excited to join the history community here at BlueSky as the peak body for history in the Australian state of Victoria!
Follow us for updates about HCV events, advocacy, news and opportunities. We have a bumper calendar coming up in 2025!
➡️ Learn more: www.historycouncilvic.org.au
Follow us for updates about HCV events, advocacy, news and opportunities. We have a bumper calendar coming up in 2025!
➡️ Learn more: www.historycouncilvic.org.au
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📚We are excited to announce our first Book+Author event of the year, feat historian Dr Geraldine Fela in conversation with our excellent host, Dr Yves Rees! The talk will take place in our brand new venue, the intimate Bard's Apothecary.
➡️Book now: historycouncilvic.org.au/book_author_...
➡️Book now: historycouncilvic.org.au/book_author_...
February 12, 2025 at 11:49 PM
📚We are excited to announce our first Book+Author event of the year, feat historian Dr Geraldine Fela in conversation with our excellent host, Dr Yves Rees! The talk will take place in our brand new venue, the intimate Bard's Apothecary.
➡️Book now: historycouncilvic.org.au/book_author_...
➡️Book now: historycouncilvic.org.au/book_author_...
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A name used in my favourite Artois family… Memorial slab, with #MementoMori skull, in St Martin's, Carvin, to Robert Antoine & Barbe Catherine Duquesne, children of Jean François Duquesne & his wife Scholastique de Robespierre.
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February 11, 2025 at 12:12 AM
A name used in my favourite Artois family… Memorial slab, with #MementoMori skull, in St Martin's, Carvin, to Robert Antoine & Barbe Catherine Duquesne, children of Jean François Duquesne & his wife Scholastique de Robespierre.
@ser-1789.bsky.social @petermcphee.bsky.social @mlinton.bsky.social
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This is completely true. It's also true that all doctors in the USA first have a BS or a BA degree from a university and it's generally considered important that physicians be capable of empathy and dealing with uncertainty. These skills are taught in the Humanities (which NIH, NSF etc do not fund).
We are not far away from your spouse’s cancer trial stopping, your parent’s Alzheimer’s clinical trial evaporating, your teen’s mental health intervention disappearing. It’s easy to attack universities, but the recent actions from the White House will stop cutting edge medical research very quickly.
February 9, 2025 at 3:33 AM
This is completely true. It's also true that all doctors in the USA first have a BS or a BA degree from a university and it's generally considered important that physicians be capable of empathy and dealing with uncertainty. These skills are taught in the Humanities (which NIH, NSF etc do not fund).
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For #18thCenturyists, let us remember Ms Faithfull as one of the more authentic-looking figures in Coppola's 'Marie Antoinette': Maria Theresia.
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January 30, 2025 at 10:29 PM
For #18thCenturyists, let us remember Ms Faithfull as one of the more authentic-looking figures in Coppola's 'Marie Antoinette': Maria Theresia.
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This Friday, January 31st at 6pm EST, Kimberly Chrisman-Campbell explores the controversial and extravagant fashion during the reign of Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette in 18th-century France in a Virtual Fashion Week 2025 event hosted by The National Arts Club. Register here:
Fashion Victims: Dress at the Court of Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette
Join Dr. Kimberly Chrisman-Campbell for an exploration of one of the most exciting, controversial, and extravagant periods in the history.
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January 30, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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Are we at a turning point in world history? | David Motadel www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Are we at a turning point in world history? | David Motadel
Political leaders increasingly caution that we are facing a historical ‘inflection point’. Are we?
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January 28, 2025 at 10:58 PM
Are we at a turning point in world history? | David Motadel www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Are we at a turning point in world history? | David Motadel www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Are we at a turning point in world history? | David Motadel
Political leaders increasingly caution that we are facing a historical ‘inflection point’. Are we?
www.theguardian.com
January 28, 2025 at 10:58 PM
Are we at a turning point in world history? | David Motadel www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Linen was essential, for clothing and sail-making in France from the middle ages until the 18thC. #Frenchpodcast with fascinating details on techniques and lots on production in Brittany, with @nadegegauffre.bsky.social and @soazigvillerbu.bsky.social #FreHistory www.radiofrance.fr/francecultur...
Tisser du lin, une histoire cousue de fil blanc : épisode 1/4 du podcast Textiles, une histoire étoffée
AUDIO • Textiles, une histoire étoffée, épisode 1/4 : Tisser du lin, une histoire cousue de fil blanc. Une série inédite proposée par France Culture. Écoutez Le Cours de l'histoire, et découvrez nos p...
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January 26, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Linen was essential, for clothing and sail-making in France from the middle ages until the 18thC. #Frenchpodcast with fascinating details on techniques and lots on production in Brittany, with @nadegegauffre.bsky.social and @soazigvillerbu.bsky.social #FreHistory www.radiofrance.fr/francecultur...
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In most developed countries people of all political leanings believe climate change is a global threat (86% of left-wingers and 75% of right-wingers in France!), with the exceptions of the US, Israel Canada and Australia where their right-wingers deny the threat posed by climate change.
January 12, 2025 at 3:22 AM
In most developed countries people of all political leanings believe climate change is a global threat (86% of left-wingers and 75% of right-wingers in France!), with the exceptions of the US, Israel Canada and Australia where their right-wingers deny the threat posed by climate change.
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Here in the UK there are curriculum issues. When I was at high school 1978-83, we did courses covering 2-3 centuries across diff countries. Now, there are 'modules' – gter depth, but more narrowly focussed & unconnected chronologically. No overview of what happened when, where, across Europe/world.
January 1, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Here in the UK there are curriculum issues. When I was at high school 1978-83, we did courses covering 2-3 centuries across diff countries. Now, there are 'modules' – gter depth, but more narrowly focussed & unconnected chronologically. No overview of what happened when, where, across Europe/world.
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Cell door from Saint Lazare prison - among the objects on show at the ‘Paris 1793-1794: Une année révolutionnaire’ exhibition at the Musée Carnavalet
December 24, 2024 at 4:38 PM
Cell door from Saint Lazare prison - among the objects on show at the ‘Paris 1793-1794: Une année révolutionnaire’ exhibition at the Musée Carnavalet
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#nuntastic #teamnun - brilliant example of medieval women's voices resurfacing!
Sometimes working with manuscripts gets us really, really close to the people from the past allowing us to hear their voices. This is a story of a letter from a schoolgirl to her teacher, written probably sometime at the end of the 9th or the beginning of the 10th century. A thread 🧵 #medievalsky /1
December 22, 2024 at 2:17 PM
#nuntastic #teamnun - brilliant example of medieval women's voices resurfacing!
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"Le retour à la vie des petites rivières urbaines"
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"En France, des milliers de kilomètres de petits cours d’eau urbains oubliés et pollués au cours du temps constituent pourtant un réseau hydrographique essentiel à l’environnement"
#inondations
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"En France, des milliers de kilomètres de petits cours d’eau urbains oubliés et pollués au cours du temps constituent pourtant un réseau hydrographique essentiel à l’environnement"
#inondations
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December 20, 2024 at 8:53 AM
"Le retour à la vie des petites rivières urbaines"
@cnrs.bsky.social
"En France, des milliers de kilomètres de petits cours d’eau urbains oubliés et pollués au cours du temps constituent pourtant un réseau hydrographique essentiel à l’environnement"
#inondations
lejournal.cnrs.fr/articles/le-...
@cnrs.bsky.social
"En France, des milliers de kilomètres de petits cours d’eau urbains oubliés et pollués au cours du temps constituent pourtant un réseau hydrographique essentiel à l’environnement"
#inondations
lejournal.cnrs.fr/articles/le-...