Briony Neilson

The special issue on incarceration for French Historical Studies is now out! In our (open access) introduction, we begin by journeying through the carceral archipelago in France and its empire from the early modern period through to today ... doi.org/10.1215/0016... 🧵🗃️ 1/7 @fuggbug.bsky.social

Roll up, roll up for an American dried pork sausage at the Paris ham fair in April 1917 (Gallica, BnF) 🗃️

Buy Hotel Modernity and help me feed my family again in another five years edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-hotel-m...

Sampling the goods at the ham fair on the boulevard Richard Lenoir in Paris in March 1934 (Gallica, BnF) 🗃️

" La révolte Kanak de 1878 " Nouvel épisode de l'émission " Défrichage " @histoires-crepues.bsky.social . En partenariat avec Retronews. L'émission fouille dans les archives coloniales à la recherche d'histoires enfouies. ▶️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=6NQ7...

Angers : un futur musée des féminismes pour "raconter l'histoire des mobilisations et des luttes en faveur de l'égalité" www.radiofrance.fr/francecultur...

Until the end of October, McGill-Queen's University Press are offering 30% off the price of all print books. Now might be the time to pick up a copy of 'Dangers of Youth' by yours truly. Use the code FALL30 at checkout. www.mqup.ca/Books/D/Dang... @mcgillqueensup.bsky.social

Curious about the hidden French history of Sydney? Well the French Sydney walking tour app – available in English and French – is now live! I contributed a few of the entries, including this little nugget about Napoleon Street in central Sydney – a big name for a little street. Bonne découverte! 🗃️

Curious about the hidden French history of Sydney? Well the French Sydney walking tour app – available in English and French – is now live! I contributed a few of the entries, including this little nugget about Napoleon Street in central Sydney – a big name for a little street. Bonne découverte! 🗃️

History 101 and why history is a revisionist discipline. The letter below is why archives are selective. It’s survived because somebody decided to keep the evidence. Even as late as the 1970s, it was seen as too incendiary. A deliberate murder by Police of Aboriginal prisoners in the 1890s.

Staff and students at the University of Sydney are on strike again today. This is just one of nine picketed entrances. Fighting for decent learning, teaching, researching, and general working conditions for human beings. Solidarity ✊

On this day (22 October) in 1844 French actress Sarah Bernhardt was born in Paris. In 1913 Bernhardt donned a bicorne hat and performed in a play at California's San Quentin State Prison. The play – about the French Revolution and written by her son – delighted the inmates (Marin History Museum) 🗃️

Staff and students at the University of Sydney are on strike again today. This is just one of nine picketed entrances. Fighting for decent learning, teaching, researching, and general working conditions for human beings. Solidarity ✊

I just feel like people with mental illness deserve adequate healthcare because it's a basic human right, and not because we're crazed mental cases who are poised to go on murderous rampages

A weird request I really need some help with: I'm looking for great quotes about history written/said BY WOMEN (and yes, I know Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, obv)

An 1872 sketch by Paul Verlaine of a 17-year-old Arthur Rimbaud, who was born on this day (20 October) in Charleville in 1854 🗃️

An 1872 sketch by Paul Verlaine of a 17-year-old Arthur Rimbaud, who was born on this day (20 October) in Charleville in 1854 🗃️

Short suits in brown and green and BBQ chicken drumsticks – Life in Canberra in 1974 (National Archives of Australia) 🗃️

Short suits in brown and green and BBQ chicken drumsticks – Life in Canberra in 1974 (National Archives of Australia) 🗃️

Inside the control room of the Apollo Tracking Station at Honeysuckle Creek near Canberra in 1967 (National Archives of Australia) 🗃️

Inside the control room of the Apollo Tracking Station at Honeysuckle Creek near Canberra in 1967 (National Archives of Australia) 🗃️

WARNING: The climbing of wheels of Emmental is strictly prohibited.

Although really we all know that this one is the best photo ever of Foucault, Michel 🗃️

Although really we all know that this one is the best photo ever of Foucault, Michel 🗃️

I have NEVER seen a BoM extreme (chance of top 20% of all years) maximum temperature outlook with numbers as high as this. And this is for summer 2026-27. Crikey. Sydney with a shocking high chance of extremes - watch out in the western suburbs. Can’t rule out 50C www.bom.gov.au/climate/outl...

Björk talking to Arvo Pärt in 1997! Björk says "I hear pinocchio and the little cricket in your music" and Pärt (beaming) is like "yes, exactly" www.youtube.com/watch?v=YfqE...

Tragic homophone of the day: Died-in-the-wool 🐑

A hundred years ago today – 15 October – Michel Foucault was born in Poitiers. Here he is on the phone at home on the rue de Vaugirard in Paris in 1978 (photo by Martine Franck, Magnum) 🗃️

And winding forward again to 1970, these Emma Peels were there to make sure all tray tables were secure on National Airways Corporation flights (Te Rua Mahara o te Kāwanatanga Archives New Zealand) 🗃️

And winding the clock back five years to 1965, New Zealand's National Airways Corporation's in-flight uniform evidently came in every conceivable colour, as long as it was beige with a black accessory (Te Rua Mahara o te Kāwanatanga Archives New Zealand) 🗃️

This is a) a scene from a never-released episode of The Avengers shot in Auckland. b) a group of airline crew from New Zealand's National Airways Corporation modelling their in-flight uniform in 1970. You decide. (Te Rua Mahara o te Kāwanatanga Archives New Zealand) 🗃️

Brings to mind little Gavroche finding shelter in the massive elephant monument at the Place de la Bastille in Les Misérables

This is a) a scene from a never-released episode of The Avengers shot in Auckland. b) a group of airline crew from New Zealand's National Airways Corporation modelling their in-flight uniform in 1970. You decide. (Te Rua Mahara o te Kāwanatanga Archives New Zealand) 🗃️

This stack of drink coasters in the shape of an owl

The first Christmas wreath of the year has appeared on a neighbour’s front door. Always good to be prepared 🙃

Those of us who work on contemporary France have long predicted some kind of social protest in advance of the 2027 elections. It could have been a gilets jaunes mk 2 related to high petrol prices, but instead it was school students. Some thoughts... www.lemonde.fr/politique/ar...

Ongoing (teaching-focused) position for Lecturer in French and Intercultural Studies at Monash University in Melbourne. Applications close 2 November careers.pageuppeople.com/513/cw/en/jo...

The mayor of Saint-Denis, Bally Bagayoko, literally used himself as a human shield to protect students from police violence

Le Corbusier’s handwritten notes for 'L’Habitation Moderne' as viewed through his glasses – photo by Yoneda Tomoko, 2003 (Mori Art Museum, Tokyo) Le Corbusier was born on this day – 6 October – in Neuchâtel, Switzerland, in 1887 🗃️

Le Corbusier’s handwritten notes for 'L’Habitation Moderne' as viewed through his glasses – photo by Yoneda Tomoko, 2003 (Mori Art Museum, Tokyo) Le Corbusier was born on this day – 6 October – in Neuchâtel, Switzerland, in 1887 🗃️

Fixed-term teaching/research job attached to ARC-funded project ‘Rebuilding Ukraine: From its War-torn Past to its War-torn Present’ at the Australian National University. Requires PhD in History and proficiency in English, Russian & Ukrainian. Submissions due 1 Nov. jobs.anu.edu.au/jobs/lecture...

Volkswagen might be on the skids today, but back in 1959 they were manufacturing Volkswagen Beetles fitted with dashboard-mounted coffee machines 🗃️

Volkswagen might be on the skids today, but back in 1959 they were manufacturing Volkswagen Beetles fitted with dashboard-mounted coffee machines 🗃️

Keep scrolling, nothing to see here – just a completely practical interior decorating tip: "Bringing a piece of furniture, like this secretary desk and chair, into a bathroom warms up the space" 🙃

Pedestrians at the intersection of the Boulevard Saint-Michel and Rue Monsieur-le-Prince, photograph taken by André Zucca in the early 1940s (Bibliothèque historique de la Ville de Paris) The restaurant on the corner is 'Pam-Pam,' an American-style bar and fast food chain 🗃️

This vibrant still life of lab equipment from c. 1906 – Pinatype, photographer unknown (Albertina Museum, Vienna) 🗃️

'More than 400 people, most of them children, have been detained in France on Tuesday after teenagers across the country blockaded their schools in protest at class sizes, teacher shortages and long timetables.'

This exhibition at the BnF tracing 80 years of Japanese photography looks brilliant (the works by Shoji Ueda alone would be enough of a drawcard for me). Opens today.

This vibrant still life of lab equipment from c. 1906 – Pinatype, photographer unknown (Albertina Museum, Vienna) 🗃️

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