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Mesmerising Untitled (Women silhouettes and trees), 1930s (photograph by Max Dupain, AGNSW)

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Your unsolicited anagram of the name of a person born on this day – 23 February – in London in 1633 is Samuel Pepys => Sleepy Pumas

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Young girl with a donkey in a drought affected landscape, Queensland, 1952 (photo by Sidney Nolan, National Library of Australia)

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Johan Christian Dahl, A Cloud and Landscape Study by Moonlight, 1822 (oil on paper mounted on paper)

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Your unsolicited anagram of the name of a person born on this day – 22 February – in the Colony of Virginia in 1732 is George Washington => Sewage Going North

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Article on Rimbaud published in the International Journal of Phytoremediation...? Everything absolutely fine with the cataloguing. Yep 🫠

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As it appears I won't be teaching as a sessional for the foreseeable future message me if you wish to contract or hire an enthusiastic historian with: - expertise in teaching historiography, speciality in archives, special collections & feminist histories. - Pacific histories. - Australia & war.

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Colourful Canberra in the 1960s: models at the Pierre Cardin fashion show at the Canberra Theatre Centre in 1967 (National Archives of Australia)

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Appalling. We're basically a hair's breadth away from it being impossible to even utter the word "Palestinian".

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Can't say the US is a magnet for travel right now... but oh to be in NYC and able to see the Caspar David Friedrich show at The Met... 'The North Sea in Moonlight,' 1823–24 (oil on canvas, National Gallery Prague)

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Airport staff dressed by Courrèges at the taxi booking desk in Terminal 1 of Roissy Charles de Gaulle, c.1974 (photo by Jean-Jacques Moreau, Aéroports de Paris)

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Ferdinand Hodler, Jungfrau above a Sea of Fog, 1908 (oil on canvas, Musée d’art et d’histoire de Genève)

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Your unsolicited anagram of the name of a person born on this day – 18 February – in Normandy in 1896 is André Breton => No Bartender

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Meanwhile over on 1stDibs, impressive marquetry work on this table made by a prisoner in a United States prison c.1900. Ships from Florida. Yours for 12,000 AUD / 7,300 EUR / 7,600 USD

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#BREAKING All five artistic teams shortlisted for the 61st Venice Biennale have released a joint statement in support of winning duo Khaled Sabsabi and Michael Dagostino who were dumped by Creative Australia following media and political pressure. The group calls for them to be reinstated.

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🔴 En #Nouvelle-Calédonie, le taux d’incarcération est 2x plus élevé qu’en #métropole. Prisons insalubres, transferts forcés à 17 000 km… Le dernier N° de la revue de l'OIP explore ce territoire où l’enfermement reflète les impasses françaises. 📖 À lire dans le n°125 👉 oip.org/publication/...

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Very much looking forward to reading this

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Another exciting upcoming special issue of French Historical Studies - submit your work on children and childhood in the French-speaking world 🗃

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Today a pigeon followed a customer in thru the open automatic doors of the boulangerie, did a calm tour of the shop floor looking for crumbs, then hopped back in the direction of the doors. By then they’d shut but just as it got close they opened as if the pigeon was an ordinary customer. So perfect

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This teeny tiny purse in the form of a frog made in England in the 17th century. 8 cm long, it probably held sachets of perfume or herbs (Ashmolean Museum)

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A tunnel of the Parisian RER station at Nation in February 1970 in all its bright tiled glory (photo by Carol-Marc Lavrillier)

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Everyone knows the aesthetic charms of the Paris métro but the RER rarely gets commented on – finally got around to snapping these lovely tiled walls

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Everyone knows the aesthetic charms of the Paris métro but the RER rarely gets commented on – finally got around to snapping these lovely tiled walls

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The AHA strongly opposes Minister Jason Clare's call for the ARC to investigate Dr Randa Abdel-Fattah's grant. Such political interference, which the Minister promised to end, undermines the integrity of the ARC and its independent, peer-review processes.

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This detail of one young delinquent boy’s conduct while in detention is straight out of a film: “boy ran away while on his way to Mass” ⛓️‍💥 ✝️

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"I'm not going to, as Australia's PM, give a daily commentary on statements by the US president." OK. But how about leadership? You could state that Australia supports international law. And is opposed to #EthnicCleansing proposed by Trump and his war criminal mate. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-02...

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Duolingo just compelled me to embrace one of the Americanisms that makes me wince most: “I’ll write you when I’ve heard from her”. I demand my right to express my prepositions!! 🙃

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This detail of one young delinquent boy’s conduct while in detention is straight out of a film: “boy ran away while on his way to Mass” ⛓️‍💥 ✝️

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Futilité de l’auto-promotion dans ce monde en pleine crise… Ce livre sort vendredi. Un de ses postulats et que les femmes ont payé très cher leurs désirs d’émancipation individuelle et collective (et qu’on semble entrer dans une nouvelle phase de régression de ces droits si durement acquis). 1/2

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Yet another youngster with a doomed last name: “Angst”

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Nothing confronts you with your own mortality quite like seeing a Dyson airblade hand dryer corrugate the skin on your hands. Those things really should come with a "body horror" warning.

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Exceptional Jusepe de Ribera exhibition at the Petit Palais. Naturally the first thing you’d want to buy from the gift shop (apart from the usual - catalogue, post cards, assoc mags etc) is Italian biscuits, pastas and pasta sauces 🙃

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Joint letter from associations of French university historians opposing cuts of over €1bn to HE and various consequences including a massive increase in fixed-term contracts as opposed to permanent posts. 80% of French universities are in deficit.

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The truth is lying in the past (and in the old website captures) - thank goodness for archive.org

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Remembering a wonderful and inspiring teacher

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Really heartbreaking. A friend at Howard just told me about Prof. Kiah Duggins, who was going to start teaching at Howard Law School in the fall and was on the plane that crashed. Here is some of her work on legal history on slavery. ⬇️🗃️

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A propos of absolutely nothing, one truth about France not sufficiently appreciated is the number of shops with absurd (often English) names. A random example:

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A neighbouring reader in the library is tapping furiously away on his laptop in short sharp jabs - as though he’s a bird trying to crack a nut. The process is making the whole table shake. Nutcracker oblivious. Of course.

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A worker stamps "Made in Australia" on cricket balls in a Melbourne factory in 1970 (National Archives of Australia) 🗃

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Um…that “team of experts” are experts in tech, not Van Gogh. They also work for the US tech company that currently owns the painting and claims its tech can suddenly detect Van Goghs. Even, seemingly ones that look not much like Van Goghs. 😂 All very above board, I’m sure.

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Two nuns contemplate Matisse's "The Dance" at the Museum of Modern Art in New York in 1964 (photo by Henri Cartier-Bresson, Magnum Photos) 🗃

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The Australian Historical Association has renamed its General History Thesis Prize in honour of the late Philippa Hetherington – a lovely gesture

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Gravediggers in Dublin's Glasnevin Cemetery in 1966 (photo by Evelyn Hofer) 🗃

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