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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"Eighty-two years after his execution by the Gestapo on June 16, 1944, the Jewish historian and resistance fighter Marc Bloch will be inducted into the Pantheon on June 23... His family requested that 'the far right, in all its forms, be excluded from any participation in the ceremony.'"
Marc Bloch, historien et résistant juif, entrera au Panthéon le 23 juin
Marc Bloch, historien et résistant juif, entrera au Panthéon le 23 juin
La date du 16 juin avait été dans un premier temps pressentie pour son entrée au Panthéon, mais la cérémonie a dû être décalée de quelques jours en raison du G7 à Evian-les-Bains.
www.lemonde.fr
February 8, 2026 at 7:02 PM
"Eighty-two years after his execution by the Gestapo on June 16, 1944, the Jewish historian and resistance fighter Marc Bloch will be inducted into the Pantheon on June 23... His family requested that 'the far right, in all its forms, be excluded from any participation in the ceremony.'"
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🎶 The Arsenal boys, we’re on a bender, Thomas Frank is a silver member! 🎶
February 1, 2026 at 6:33 PM
🎶 The Arsenal boys, we’re on a bender, Thomas Frank is a silver member! 🎶
A highlight of the ‘Radical Harmony: Hélène Kröller-Müller’s Neo-Impressionists’ exhibition (National Gallery, London), and which, by chance, I will be teaching tomorrow morning on my Inside Out: Interior and Interiority module: Paul Signac’s The Dining Room, Opus 152 (1886-7).
January 29, 2026 at 9:59 PM
A highlight of the ‘Radical Harmony: Hélène Kröller-Müller’s Neo-Impressionists’ exhibition (National Gallery, London), and which, by chance, I will be teaching tomorrow morning on my Inside Out: Interior and Interiority module: Paul Signac’s The Dining Room, Opus 152 (1886-7).
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🚨CONFIRMED: Arsenal secure top spot in the league phase of the 205/26 UEFA Champions League with one game to spare.
Seven games. Seven wins. Perfect.
Seven games. Seven wins. Perfect.
January 20, 2026 at 9:50 PM
🚨CONFIRMED: Arsenal secure top spot in the league phase of the 205/26 UEFA Champions League with one game to spare.
Seven games. Seven wins. Perfect.
Seven games. Seven wins. Perfect.
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I guess being an academic in the age of generative AI means receiving phoney research supervision requests on a daily basis until the end of time. *sigh*
January 9, 2026 at 10:02 AM
I guess being an academic in the age of generative AI means receiving phoney research supervision requests on a daily basis until the end of time. *sigh*
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The death of human empathy is one of the earliest and most telling signs of a culture on the verge of sinking into barbarism.
Hannah Arendt
Hannah Arendt
January 7, 2026 at 4:06 PM
The death of human empathy is one of the earliest and most telling signs of a culture on the verge of sinking into barbarism.
Hannah Arendt
Hannah Arendt
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“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction (i.e., the reality of experience) and the distinction between true and false (i.e., the standards of thought) no longer exist.” - Hannah Arendt
Trump: "I have just viewed the clip of the event which took place in Minneapolis. It is a horrible thing to watch. The woman screaming was, obviously, a professional agitator, and the woman driving the car was very disorderly, obstructing and resisting ... "
January 7, 2026 at 9:03 PM
“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction (i.e., the reality of experience) and the distinction between true and false (i.e., the standards of thought) no longer exist.” - Hannah Arendt
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Farewell then, Béla Tarr
January 6, 2026 at 12:03 PM
Farewell then, Béla Tarr
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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.