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Briony Neilson

@brionyneilson.bsky.social

Historian of 19th-c France—incarceration, prisons, settler/penal colonies (esp New Caledonia) 📕Dangers of Youth www.mqup.ca/dangers-of-youth-products-9780228024330.php Professional editor www.brionyneilson.com Sydney, Australia

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Briony Neilson@brionyneilson.bsky.social · 12h ago

Delighted to put together this curated collection for French Historical Studies, enhancing our recent INCARCERATION special issue with these fantastic articles from the archive – all deal with issues of race and the carceral in French history @sfhs.bsky.social 🗃️ @hfrancewebsite.bsky.social

Incarceration and Race | French Historical Studies | Duke University Press

This curated collection presents an opportunity to showcase French Historical Studies articles that treat questions of race and incarceration in French his

read.dukeupress.edu

Briony Neilson@brionyneilson.bsky.social · 13h ago

Meanwhile the West German luge team outfit at the 1976 Winter Olympics resembled Spider-Man after an unfortunate collision with Pacman or maybe Calimero – just look at that genius helmet (Pressefoto Baumann/imago) 🗃️ But good outfit ≠ gold medal: Josef Fendt pictured here ended up with a silver

colour photo taken in the snow featuring a man in a red and blue ski suit sitting on a blue-coloured sled and wearing a very striking, yellow, elongated, egg-shape-like helmet on his head.
Briony Neilson@brionyneilson.bsky.social · 2d ago

Jailbird chic: behold the "convict-stripes" podium outfit for the Australian Olympic team at the 1976 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck – declared the ugliest uniform of the games and *the* hot property souvenir item. (An unmistakable Ronald McDonald flavour here, too.) 🗃️

Photograph of a woman with short red hair dressed in a black and white striped ski suit with flashes of yellow.
Briony Neilson@brionyneilson.bsky.social · 2d ago

Jailbird chic: behold the "convict-stripes" podium outfit for the Australian Olympic team at the 1976 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck – declared the ugliest uniform of the games and *the* hot property souvenir item. (An unmistakable Ronald McDonald flavour here, too.) 🗃️

Photograph of a woman with short red hair dressed in a black and white striped ski suit with flashes of yellow.
Briony Neilson@brionyneilson.bsky.social · 3d ago

They don't build library systems like this anymore: inside the Bibliothèque nationale de France in Paris in 1938, a librarian stands next to a pneumatic tube, holding a reader's call slip requesting access to printed materials (Jacques Boyer/Roger-Viollet) 🗃️

b&w photo of a man in a long white coat standing next to a wooden table and a pneumatic tube, holding a reader's call slip
Briony Neilson@brionyneilson.bsky.social · 4d ago

At the storage annex of the Bibliothèque nationale de France in Versailles, loading up a van with works* requested by readers in the library on the rue de Richelieu in Paris in 1938 (Jacques Boyer; Roger-Viollet) *Just look at that basket – there's definitely at least one person hidden in there 🗃️

b&w photo showing a the rear of a large van with the word 'Déménagements' at the top and two men at right carrying a large basket and standing in front of an art déco-style building
Briony Neilson@brionyneilson.bsky.social · 2w ago

These two women and the little girl standing in front of their bark cottage on the Australian goldfields, probably near the town of Gulgong in New South Wales, c.1870 (State Library of NSW) 🗃️

b&w photo of two women and a little girl standing in front of a small cottage made roughly of tree bark
Briony Neilson@brionyneilson.bsky.social · 2w ago

People unfamiliar with the topography, geography and climate of Australia are often amazed when they're told that parts of the continent get regular snowfall. We're now set for a not-too-distant future in which everyone will marvel/mourn that any snow ever fell anywhere.

Australian ski resorts smash July climate records with temperatures 12C above average

Resorts in New South Wales and Victoria face a warm and dry start to the season with only sporadic falls of natural snow in many alpine areas

theguardian.com