Briony Neilson
@brionyneilson.bsky.social
Historian of 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....
Sydney weather is certainly giving us all it's got today ☀️💨⛈️⚡
November 26, 2025 at 4:46 AM
Sydney weather is certainly giving us all it's got today ☀️💨⛈️⚡
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New York City helped my mother become the artist she is today. The next generation deserves a City Hall that lifts up tomorrow's artists as well.
November 26, 2025 at 1:49 AM
New York City helped my mother become the artist she is today. The next generation deserves a City Hall that lifts up tomorrow's artists as well.
If I’d been a student at a French school in the 1990s and heard this play at the end of every class, I’d have felt like I was in some low-budget TV series about a detective who investigates everyday, I gripping and yet disturbing mysteries in a small village in the mountains.
It seems this theme was broadcast at the end of each class in schools across the Paris region in the 1990s. So unresolved, so unsettling.
SONNERIE ÎLE-DE-FRANCE (VERSION GRAVE ET LONGUE) | SONNERIE ÉCOLE/COLLÈGE/LYCÉE/EREA/CFA
YouTube video by La Cloche Française
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November 25, 2025 at 8:53 AM
If I’d been a student at a French school in the 1990s and heard this play at the end of every class, I’d have felt like I was in some low-budget TV series about a detective who investigates everyday, I gripping and yet disturbing mysteries in a small village in the mountains.
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I enjoyed speaking about my book Erasing Palestine, the Gaza
genocide and famine and forced starvation for the Savage Minds podcast
open.substack.com/pub/savagemi...
genocide and famine and forced starvation for the Savage Minds podcast
open.substack.com/pub/savagemi...
Rebecca Ruth Gould
S5E23
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November 25, 2025 at 5:41 AM
I enjoyed speaking about my book Erasing Palestine, the Gaza
genocide and famine and forced starvation for the Savage Minds podcast
open.substack.com/pub/savagemi...
genocide and famine and forced starvation for the Savage Minds podcast
open.substack.com/pub/savagemi...
It seems this theme was broadcast at the end of each class in schools across the Paris region in the 1990s. So unresolved, so unsettling.
SONNERIE ÎLE-DE-FRANCE (VERSION GRAVE ET LONGUE) | SONNERIE ÉCOLE/COLLÈGE/LYCÉE/EREA/CFA
YouTube video by La Cloche Française
www.youtube.com
November 25, 2025 at 5:03 AM
It seems this theme was broadcast at the end of each class in schools across the Paris region in the 1990s. So unresolved, so unsettling.
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I’m delighted to share that my first journal article has been published in the special issue 'Labour Archives and Methodologies' of Labour History.
Honoured to have this piece included alongside such distinguished work: doi.org/10.3828/labo...
Honoured to have this piece included alongside such distinguished work: doi.org/10.3828/labo...
November 24, 2025 at 11:30 PM
I’m delighted to share that my first journal article has been published in the special issue 'Labour Archives and Methodologies' of Labour History.
Honoured to have this piece included alongside such distinguished work: doi.org/10.3828/labo...
Honoured to have this piece included alongside such distinguished work: doi.org/10.3828/labo...
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Want to learn about medieval coroners, tithings & the frankpledge system, crime & punishment, peacekeeping, the hue & cry, amercements, etc? Then check out my article “The limits of strong government: attempts to control criminality in thirteenth-century England”.
academic.oup.com/histres/arti...
academic.oup.com/histres/arti...
The limits of strong government: attempts to control criminality in thirteenth-century England*
Abstract. This article examines how far centrally-directed structures of peacekeeping influenced communal reactions to criminality in thirteenth-century En
academic.oup.com
November 24, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Want to learn about medieval coroners, tithings & the frankpledge system, crime & punishment, peacekeeping, the hue & cry, amercements, etc? Then check out my article “The limits of strong government: attempts to control criminality in thirteenth-century England”.
academic.oup.com/histres/arti...
academic.oup.com/histres/arti...
A family member spotted and plucked this honest-to-goodness four-leaf clover today. Definitely means good luck for everyone.
November 21, 2025 at 1:16 AM
A family member spotted and plucked this honest-to-goodness four-leaf clover today. Definitely means good luck for everyone.
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And in this wonderful open-access article in our special issue, Kate Stevens looks at performative transimperial co-operation between the British and French in the New Hebrides Condominium (Vanuatu), and at how theatrical forms of critique helped obscure the violent realities of imperial domination.
Violent Laughter: Commemorating Anglo-French Co-operation and Forgetting Violence through Gilbert and Sullivan in Colonial Vanuatu
Thomson Reid Cowell, assistant British resident commissioner in the New Hebrides (Vanuatu), wrote a musical comedy – ‘with humblest apologies to Sir William Gilbert and Sir Arthur Sullivan’ – depic...
www.tandfonline.com
November 19, 2025 at 7:04 AM
And in this wonderful open-access article in our special issue, Kate Stevens looks at performative transimperial co-operation between the British and French in the New Hebrides Condominium (Vanuatu), and at how theatrical forms of critique helped obscure the violent realities of imperial domination.
Christopher Pyne, the same person who sought (unsuccessfully) to deregulate university fees in Australia only a decade ago. What acts of social, cultural, and intellectual vandalism does he now have in mind for Australia's National Library? Dark days ahead.
What a brain-dead dumb, completely shite appointment. @tonyburkemp.bsky.social
November 20, 2025 at 4:46 AM
Christopher Pyne, the same person who sought (unsuccessfully) to deregulate university fees in Australia only a decade ago. What acts of social, cultural, and intellectual vandalism does he now have in mind for Australia's National Library? Dark days ahead.
A blue bird perched on the branch of a weeping cherry tree – woodblock print by Utagawa Hiroshige, ink and colour on paper, 19th century (The Met)
November 20, 2025 at 4:11 AM
A blue bird perched on the branch of a weeping cherry tree – woodblock print by Utagawa Hiroshige, ink and colour on paper, 19th century (The Met)
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Next up in our special issue is W. Matthew Calvert's excellent article on phosphate extraction on Walpole Island by French and British companies and entanglements with European settler colonies in the Pacific. (note: this article unfortunately isn't open access) www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Adrift in the Sea of Phosphates: Walpole Island in the Early 20th Century
During the early 20th century, the Pacific phosphate rush swept over Walpole Island, bringing it into closer orbit with New Caledonia, New Zealand, Australia, and broader circuits of contract labou...
www.tandfonline.com
November 19, 2025 at 4:09 AM
Next up in our special issue is W. Matthew Calvert's excellent article on phosphate extraction on Walpole Island by French and British companies and entanglements with European settler colonies in the Pacific. (note: this article unfortunately isn't open access) www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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The New School is now a place where students cannot major in History, Anthropology, Sociology, Global Policy & International Affairs, Global Studies, Urban Studies, or Environmental Studies. And more pauses, closures, and mergers coming down the pike this week. The future is uncertain.
November 19, 2025 at 1:15 PM
The New School is now a place where students cannot major in History, Anthropology, Sociology, Global Policy & International Affairs, Global Studies, Urban Studies, or Environmental Studies. And more pauses, closures, and mergers coming down the pike this week. The future is uncertain.
"Matildas star Mary Fowler has revealed the inner torment she endured during her time at French club Montpellier, saying she and another black teammate were given bananas instead of flowers during a farewell presentation from the club, an incident she says was not 'a simple error."
‘Treated differently’: Mary Fowler claims she was given bananas instead of flowers on leaving French club
The Matildas star said her tenure at Montpellier made her consider quitting soccer.
www.smh.com.au
November 19, 2025 at 6:38 AM
"Matildas star Mary Fowler has revealed the inner torment she endured during her time at French club Montpellier, saying she and another black teammate were given bananas instead of flowers during a farewell presentation from the club, an incident she says was not 'a simple error."
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Hey authors! Check to see if Anthropic stole your book to train their slop generator on. You’re entitled to $1500 per stolen Work.
Look up your work, and if you’re in the database, file a claim
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November 18, 2025 at 7:39 AM
Hey authors! Check to see if Anthropic stole your book to train their slop generator on. You’re entitled to $1500 per stolen Work.
Look up your work, and if you’re in the database, file a claim
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Look up your work, and if you’re in the database, file a claim
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Happy to share my new book 'Quiet Protest: A New History of Activism during the Vietnam War', which will be published by UNSW Press on 1 April 2026.
November 19, 2025 at 12:23 AM
Happy to share my new book 'Quiet Protest: A New History of Activism during the Vietnam War', which will be published by UNSW Press on 1 April 2026.
Twilight at the most magical boathouse in Sydney - built in the 1890s on the Parramatta River as part of the Thomas Walker Convalescent Hospital
November 16, 2025 at 10:39 AM
Twilight at the most magical boathouse in Sydney - built in the 1890s on the Parramatta River as part of the Thomas Walker Convalescent Hospital
Another fluffy encounter
– this time with a rather goofy-looking corella
– this time with a rather goofy-looking corella
November 16, 2025 at 9:39 AM
Another fluffy encounter
– this time with a rather goofy-looking corella
– this time with a rather goofy-looking corella
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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...
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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?
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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