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Jennifer Yee @jenwhy.bsky.social · 8d

Just back from a short trip to Bristol, where it seems people behaved very badly in 1824.

Jennifer Yee @jenwhy.bsky.social · 13d

You scared me for a minute there!

299. Gaza: The Palestinian Revolt, The Black and Tans, & Bomber Harris (Part 9)

Jennifer Yee @jenwhy.bsky.social · 15d

The @empirepoduk.bsky.social series on the history of Gaza is up to the 1930s, with 'Bomber Harris' unleashing aerial bombing on civilian populations. I don't recommend listening to this while having dinner. But do listen. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/2...

Podcast Episode · Empire · 15/10/2025 · 45m

Enoch Powell: Rivers of Blood

Jennifer Yee @jenwhy.bsky.social · 15d

This rather chilling podcast situates Enoch Powell's infamous speech in the context of the 1960s, and discusses his legacy. He decided that if he couldn't be Vice-Roy of India there was no point to the Empire, so became an anti-imperialist little-Englander. podcasts.apple.com/za/podcast/e...

Podcast Episode · The Rest Is History · 05/10/2025 · 1h 12m

Alain Mabanckou explore "Une si longue lettre" de Mariama Bâ, œuvre fondatrice du féminisme africain

Jennifer Yee @jenwhy.bsky.social · 16d

La poire est mûre! #NoKings histoirebnf.hypotheses.org/10163

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Jennifer Yee @jenwhy.bsky.social · 16d

Alain Mabanckou's discussion of the profound importance of Mariama Bâ's _Une si longue lettre_ makes me want to go back to reread its (classical?) limpidity. #frenchpodcast www.radiofrance.fr/franceinter/...

Alain Mabanckou, présente le roman emblématique de l'autrice sénégalaise Mariama Bâ. "Une si longue lettre", publié en 1979, reste un texte de référence sur la condition féminine en Afrique et la lutt...

Pourquoi lire Saint-Simon aujourd'hui ? : épisode du podcast Saint-Simon (1760-1825), dans l'atelier d'un visionnaire

Jennifer Yee @jenwhy.bsky.social · 16d

This #frenchpodcast filled in a lot that I didn't know about Saint-Simon, proto-socialist thinker of the post-revolutionary period, who believed in work and private entreprise and managed to make, and lose, a fortune. #FrHistory www.radiofrance.fr/francecultur...

AUDIO • Saint-Simon (1760-1825), dans l'atelier d'un visionnaire, épisode : Pourquoi lire Saint-Simon aujourd'hui ? . Une série inédite proposée par France Culture. Écoutez Avec philosophie, et décou...

Histoire de France, un récit commun ? : épisode du podcast Écrire l'histoire de France, mode d'emploi

Jennifer Yee @jenwhy.bsky.social · 22d

I expect the U.K. version will have Civil War re-enactments and Anglo-Saxon feasting.

Jennifer Yee @jenwhy.bsky.social · 23d

Just published: a massive history of France, ed by @ericanceau.bsky.social. #frenchpodcast which in this episode only mentions France's ex-colonies in an interesting discussion of the term 'roman national' and how divisive debates on colonialism have been. www.radiofrance.fr/francecultur...

AUDIO • Écrire l'histoire de France, mode d'emploi, épisode : Histoire de France, un récit commun ?. Une série inédite proposée par France Culture. Écoutez Le Cours de l'histoire, et découvrez nos po...

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Jennifer Yee @jenwhy.bsky.social · 23d

I have never been there but it sounds dodgy. I did once go to a battle of Hastings reenactment at which hordes of ‘Anglo-Saxons’ chanted ‘out out out’ while banging their shields, which was… interesting.

D'où vient la pensée libertine ? : épisode du podcast Les courants libertins, un état d'esprit

Jennifer Yee @jenwhy.bsky.social · 25d

Philosophical 'libertinage' in the 17thC seems to have been a sort of radical materialist doubt, along with interest in what passed for science at the time (including magic and alchemy). #Frenchpodcast, first in series of 3. www.radiofrance.fr/francecultur...

AUDIO • Les courants libertins, un état d'esprit , épisode : D'où vient la pensée libertine ?. Une série inédite proposée par France Culture. Écoutez Avec philosophie, et découvrez nos podcasts en li...

Le Puy du Fou : visiter et revisiter l’Histoire

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Jennifer Yee @jenwhy.bsky.social · 25d

Le Puy du Fou, the French historical (re?)enactment entertainment park that is aiming to open a new branch near Oxford, has a somewhat divisive background in reactionary French politics. A very topical #frenchpodcast. #Frhistory www.radiofrance.fr/franceinter/...

Aujourd’hui dans Affaires Sensibles, le Puy-du-Fou : visiter et revisiter l’Histoire

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Jennifer Yee @jenwhy.bsky.social · 26d

Japanese woodblock prints and literary cityscapes in my article - just out with @frenchstudies.bsky.social - 'Zola’s Une page d’amour: The Novelist as Japanese Artist'. French Studies, Vol. 79, No. 4, 565–584.

La nuit de noces au XIXᵉ siècle, avec Aïcha Limbada | Storiavoce

Jennifer Yee @jenwhy.bsky.social · Oct 5

Research on the wedding night in 19thC France took Aïcha Limbada to the Vatican archives to look at cases for divorce (other sources include publications by well-meaning doctors and... George Sand). #Frenchpodcast #Frhistory shows.acast.com/storiavoce/e...

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291. Ancient Gaza: The Philistines (Part 1)

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Rachel Mesch @rmesch.bsky.social · Sep 30

#FrHistory #LGBTQ🏳️‍🌈📚🗃️

Rachel Mesch @rmesch.bsky.social · Sep 30

Please join us on Friday to hear @hannahfrydman.bsky.social speak with Raisa Rexer about her brilliant new book, Between the Sheets: Sexuality, Classified Advertising, and the Moral Threat to Press Freedom in France!!! 🔥🔥🔥

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Jennifer Yee @jenwhy.bsky.social · Oct 1

Dangerous steering? Spotted from my office window this afternoon.

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Jennifer Yee @jenwhy.bsky.social · Oct 1

This series of podcasts on ancient Gaza from @empirepoduk.bsky.social is astounding. Gaza is first mentioned in Egyptian written sources in the 15thC BC and 'Philistine' was bad press directed at Palestinians... podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/2...

Podcast Episode · Empire · 17/09/2025 · 45m

Zola’s Une page d’amour: The Novelist as Japanese Artist | French Studies

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William Dalrymple @willdalrymple.bsky.social · Sep 18

New series from @EmpirePodUK
THE HISTORY OF GAZA

291. Ancient Gaza: The Philistines
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Jennifer Yee @jenwhy.bsky.social · Sep 12

I'm delighted that my article on 'Zola's Une Page d'amour: the Novelist as Japanese artist' has now been published by French Studies
@livunipress.bsky.social
Japonisme is not the same as japonaiserie!
www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/10.3828/...

In the 1860s and 1870s Japanese art inspired great enthusiasm in France, both in fashionable Parisian circles and among artists. A dual response to this art underlies Émile Zola’s novel Une page d’amour (1878). The novel shows us japonaiserie — the ...

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Jennifer Yee @jenwhy.bsky.social · Sep 10

I’m writing about Orientalism, so was very interested to see these examples of 18th century Occidentalism from the Qing dynasty in Taipei’s National Palace Museum.

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Jennifer Yee @jenwhy.bsky.social · Sep 9

Teapot art, the zoomorphic variety

Vasari: Inventor of Artistic Genius

Jennifer Yee @jenwhy.bsky.social · Sep 8

Here is a cat outside a postcard shop pretending to be a cat in a postcard, in Jiufen, aka Ghibli-lookalike village in the mountains near Taipei. Not even #caturday!

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Jennifer Yee @jenwhy.bsky.social · Aug 30

Vasari invented art history with a specific agenda: to make the case that Florentine art was the best, with Michelangelo its greatest exemplar. Now I feel I have succumbed to propaganda. Interesting podcast from @sixteenthcgirl.bsky.social
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Podcast Episode · Not Just the Tudors · 07/08/2025 · 1h 4m