Briony Neilson
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
- Reposted by Briony Neilsonis it normal for encyclopedias to include “skin tone” or just when they’re generated by a white nationalist’s ai?
- Reposted by Briony NeilsonI'm looking for a Paris apartment to rent for 3-4 weeks in late March - early April (preferably 2 bedrooms, although a bedroom plus a sofa bed would work). Two adults and a kid. Does anyone have any leads? Thanks!
- Not to make light of the alarming situation but this language does make it sound like Macron’s referring to teams hopping on buses to take part in an inter-school sports carnival
- You can contribute to the fundraiser to support Randa Abdel-Fattah's legal fees here
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- "While Adelaide Writers’ Week will not proceed in 2026, Dr Abdel-Fattah has been invited to speak at the next festival in 2027." What a farce.
- In 1994 David Bowie and Brian Eno spent a day with ‘outsider’ artists at Maria Gugging psychiatric clinic on the outskirts of Vienna. Photos, currently on show in Western Australia, reveal the effect the experience had on Bowie.
- Reposted by Briony NeilsonToday is publication day! The Open Access version is now online so you can read for free on @manifoldscholar.bsky.social With huge thanks to @uncpress.bsky.social @ecds-emory.bsky.social and @foxcenteremory.bsky.social Go to jimcrowintheasylum.com
- Reposted by Briony NeilsonIt's "culturally unsafe" to have a Palestinian Aus author advocate against the systematic slaughter of hundreds of thousands of her people, but it's "a good thing" for the president of apartheid Israel, which has committed daily massacres and mass starvation for 2yrs, to visit us. Unbearably racist.
- It's out! This new article by me and my wonderful collaborator Charlotte Ann Legg looks at race, labour and affinities of whiteness in New Caledonia and Australia around the time of the White Australia policy. Part of our special issue on Connected Histories of Empire: France, Britain & the Pacific🗃️
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- I'd been wondering if time would be made to just stand still following the departure of Melvyn. Happy to know that things will tick on.
- Just imagine the thrills if they could manage to throw Alan Jones and Mark Latham into this moribund festival mix.
- Massive bushfire, tiny fire truck. (Also that single gum tree resolutely standing)
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- A mobile radiological unit developed by Marie Curie, November 1914 (BnF) With X-ray machines then only available in city hospitals far from the warfront, Curie equipped standard motor cars with X-ray machines that were powered by the car's engine. Curie herself drove one of these to the front. 🗃️
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- A watch in the form of a beetle – made in Switzerland, c.1850 (The Met) 🗃️
- The ridiculous beauty of butterflies found in Colombia, Indonesia and Malaysia – a page from Émile-Allain Séguy's Papillons published in 1925 🗃️
- Reposted by Briony NeilsonWhat’s the point of writers’ festivals — or, for that matter, writers — if they can’t discuss issues that matter? Australian arts administrators would rather destroy the whole sector than allow Palestinians to speak about genocide. It’s beyond shameful.
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- Reposted by Briony NeilsonFrom an email to one of our faculty members.... Not even Plato can escape censorship at Texas A&M!
- One like, one uncommon English word written in shorthand.
- Dusky moon
- The opening of a Gothic novel 🗃
- A hive of activity in the central post office on the rue du Louvre as postal workers sort the mail – Paris, 1923 (Gallica, BnF) 🗃️
- "We cannot allow our collective grief and fear to be used as a political weapon to attack the Palestine solidarity movement or any other democratic movement... The path to safety is democratic and rooted in our shared community" – Jewish Council of Australia petitions.getup.org.au/petitions/fr...
- After the horrific attack on Jewish people at Bondi, Chris Minns has slandered those who stand for justice in Israel Palestine as responsible. He seeks to ban the words Globalise the intifada. Intifada simply means uprising. The Haiti slave revolution was intifada. So was the Warsaw ghetto uprising.
- NSW premier “Chris Minns’ protest ban has the premise that preventing the murder of Jews in Sydney means consenting to the murder of Palestinians in Gaza. It is not just authoritarian: it is breathtakingly racist and must be resisted.” Opposing genocide and supporting justice for all is not a crime.
- And here an impressively moustachioed staff member displays a census counting machine in the French census office in Paris in 1911 (Gallica, BnF) 🗃️
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- Further scenes at the French census office in Paris in 1911: A line of women workers process piles of census forms (Gallica, BnF) 🗃️
- Reposted by Briony NeilsonLinking the march across the bridge to the massacre is disgusting and everyone doing so should be deeply ashamed of their giving tacit support for genocide www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
- Paris is a city haunted by a ghost in chinos and fawn loafers, so says Google Maps
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- Following the horrific antisemitic attack at Bondi supporters of peace & rights for all in Israel Palestine are being slurred as supporters of terrorist atrocity. In a democracy peaceful protest is essential but NSW Premier Minns wants more powers to ban it. Write urgently to MPs using this template
- The ambiguous intimacy of the census: women workers sort through forms in the French census office in Paris in 1911 (Gallica, BnF) 🗃️
- Women workers pore over pages and pages of people's responses in the French census office in Paris in 1911 (Gallica, BnF) 🗃️
