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Dr Francesca Berry (she/her)

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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

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Dr Francesca Berry (she/her) @francescaberry.bsky.social · Jan 23

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! 😊

Dr Francesca Berry (she/her) @francescaberry.bsky.social · Oct 11

📕 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.😊

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Book cover including a painting of a figure seated in a domestic room.

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Dr Francesca Berry (she/her) @francescaberry.bsky.social · 13h

Proudly, I have never knowingly used ChatGPT, Grok, CoPilot or any slop making, mind vacating, word, image & job stealing, and environment destroying, GenAI software.

Also, I have refused to license my recent book for LLM training (but know my research has/is being plagiarised).

Dr Francesca Berry (she/her) @francescaberry.bsky.social · 1d

more art, less war 🙏🏼

A photo from a trip in September to see the Impressions Nabies exhibition in Paris.

PIERRE BONNARD, L'Enfant à la lampe. Planche destinée au troisième album d'estampes originales de la galerie Vollard (non publié), 1897. Lithographie en couleurs. BnF.

An 1890s colour lithograph depicting a young child playing with toy cars on a table, illuminated by a table oil lamp. Red, green and black dominate.

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Dr Francesca Berry (she/her) @francescaberry.bsky.social · 5d

Thank you! 🙏🏼

Dr Francesca Berry (she/her) @francescaberry.bsky.social · 14d

RIP Claudia Cardinale (1938-2025).

Claudia Cardinale as Jill McBain in Once Upon A Time in the West (1968).

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Dr Francesca Berry (she/her) @francescaberry.bsky.social · 15d

A focus will be a painting in the National Galleries of Scotland - Vuillard’s The Chat, 1893: a depiction, in the marital bedroom, of the euphemistic advice a mother would give her daughter on their wedding day.

Dr Francesca Berry (she/her) @francescaberry.bsky.social · 15d

I will be talking about my recently published book, Édouard Vuillard, the Nabis, and the Politics of Domesticity (Bloomsbury Academic).

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Dr Francesca Berry (she/her) @francescaberry.bsky.social · 15d

On Thursday 2nd October (5.15pm GMT), I am giving a research paper, hosted by HannahHalliwell of University of Edinburgh. It’s online and I believe anyone can register to attend. All welcome!

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/history-of...

History of Art Research Seminar Series | Dr Francesca Berry

Atelier-Chambre and Chambre: The Sexual Politics of Intimiste Space

www.eventbrite.co.uk

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Máiréad Enright @maireadenright.bsky.social · 16d

Great piece in Vittles on French university canteens www.vittlesmagazine.com/p/welfare-is... 1 euro - 3.30 for a 3 course lunch. Meanwhile, British student unions need to set up food banks...

‘Welfare is a right, not a privilege’

Eating at the university canteens of Paris. Words and photos by Jack Franco.

www.vittlesmagazine.com

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Matt Houlbrook @tricksterprince.bsky.social · 21d

The launch of my new @manchesterup.bsky.social book Songs of Seven Dials will be at 6pm, Tues 21 Oct, at Waterstones Covent Garden. I'll be in conversation with the wonderful @julialaite.bsky.social.

Please do come along. Free tickets, but register in advance

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/songs-of-s...

An advertising banner for Matt Houlbrook's book Songs of Seven Dials: An Intimate History of 1920s and 1930s London. The banner includes an image of the front cover of the book (a blue map on a pink background) and a blurb from the historian Julia Laite, which describes Songs of Seven Dials as 'a poetic exploration of London's most iconic neighbourhoods'.

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Dr Francesca Berry (she/her) @francescaberry.bsky.social · 16d

Many congratulations Matt. It looks really interesting.

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Dr Francesca Berry (she/her) @francescaberry.bsky.social · 21d

I really enjoyed the vernissage today of the new Bibliothèque nationale de France exhibition on print making by the Nabis, Vuillard (the subject of my 2025 book) included. A highlight: a rare test proof in alternative colours of his Pink Interior III, 1896-9.

L: the proof; R: the published print.

A colour lithograph depicting two figures in an interior viewed through two doorways.

Dr Francesca Berry (she/her) @francescaberry.bsky.social · 21d

Paris.

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Will Jennings 🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · Aug 31

Still on the EHCR are we?

British politics is stuck in a post-Brexit doom loop, addicted to spectacle politics and unable to engage with its actual problems: the sclerotic post-GFC economy that has seen real wages stagnate and increasing inability of government to invest in public services.

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Dr Francesca Berry (she/her) @francescaberry.bsky.social · Aug 27

And this fella!

Man U were well fishy.

Dr Francesca Berry (she/her) @francescaberry.bsky.social · Aug 27

lol.

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arseblog @arseblog.com · Aug 20

Well, well, well ...

arseblog @arseblog.com · Aug 20

Hijack Eze?!

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Poorly Drawn Arsenal @poorlydrawnarsenal.com · Aug 17

I think I’ll watch Arsenal today.

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Dr Francesca Berry (she/her) @francescaberry.bsky.social · Aug 13

Dr Francesca Berry (she/her) @francescaberry.bsky.social · Aug 8

Barcelona 😎

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@nasarmeer.bsky.social @nasarmeer.bsky.social · Jul 27

More than 40 students currently trapped in Gaza with full scholarships to UK Universities are asking for a safe route to come and study. Please sign and share ⬇️ docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...