@petermcphee.bsky.social
Historian of France Chair of the History Council of Victoria, Australia Emeritus Professor, University of Melbourne Latest book: An Environmental History of France, 1770-2020 https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/environmental-history-of-france-9781350523852/
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27.12.2025 17:56 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0You could begin with Martyn Lyons' overview then try one of the major biographies.
26.12.2025 19:35 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Thierry Lentz is a great specialist in Napoleonic studies, but as Director of the Fondation Napoléon he presents a particular view.
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Picture shows a book cover for Dangers of Youth
I'm honoured to be speaking to @petermcphee.bsky.social on Mon 6 Oct at 1pm AEDT about my book Dangers of Youth: Age, Criminality, and Juvenile Justice Reform in Third Republic France at an online event hosted by the George Rudé Society. Please register here: uni-sydney.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
15.09.2025 09:23 — 👍 41 🔁 13 💬 2 📌 1A beautiful essay about John Hirst's distinctive and significant contribution to our historical culture.
01.08.2025 05:02 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Félicitations ! Un travail extraordinaire.
16.07.2025 08:26 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Of course in some senses Napoleon was a soldier of the French Revolution but he also ended it in 1799. There are no clear ruptures in history.
25.06.2025 19:38 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Yes, but I'm also thinking of applied science with directly related things like the roll out of decimal measures.
25.06.2025 16:14 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Yes, you're quite correct: I should have had something to say about scientific and medical developments. That's a rather 'dated' volume now.
25.06.2025 11:48 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0Thank you. 91 posts!
30.05.2025 20:27 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0@petermcphee.bsky.social @mlinton.bsky.social @paulchopelin.bsky.social @ser-1789.bsky.social @cecs-york.bsky.social #FrenchRevolution #FrenchHistory #Robespierre #RevolutionFrançaise
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The commemoration of the massive (and tragic) Donghak peasant rebellion of 1894 in Jeongeup, South Korea. The columns refer to the 90 places involved and the names of the identified victims are added to each year. The ring reminds us never to forget. There is no memorial like this to 1789 in France.
09.05.2025 11:32 — 👍 7 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Brilliant article by Brooke Boney on why acknowledging First Peoples matters and the real reason why some people won't.
www.theage.com.au/national/wel...
(from Australia) suggesting that you can explain the US dysfunction by reference to Trump and his body alone just demonstrates what's with US politics and commentary.
05.04.2025 10:34 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Spare a thought for the 2,000 people of the Australian territory of Norfolk Island who don't export anything to anyone but now have a tariff of 59%. Smart people those MAGAs.
03.04.2025 04:24 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0@petermcphee.bsky.social @mlinton.bsky.social
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A superb example of environmental history which integrates sensory experience, cultural identity, art, politics and economics in a beautifully written and gorgeous book.
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Alas, the easiest way to explain history is to ascribe it to a trope connected with an individual, as if the smash and grab going on in the US can be fully explained by reference to Trump
26.02.2025 17:53 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Yes, you're right. The book sounds interesting so I'll keep an open mind!
26.02.2025 17:18 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0The old clichés about "Robespierre's Terror" and his omnipotent control, apparently even over mirrors and underwear. Thanks for sending.
26.02.2025 17:06 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Macron made Trump “the first president in history who had to be interrupted and corrected by an ally when the president of the United States was lying and lying about that ally”
www.huffpost.com/entry/lawren...
Sometimes you need to laugh.
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🎉 We are excited to join the history community here at BlueSky as the peak body for history in the Australian state of Victoria!
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📚We are excited to announce our first Book+Author event of the year, feat historian Dr Geraldine Fela in conversation with our excellent host, Dr Yves Rees! The talk will take place in our brand new venue, the intimate Bard's Apothecary.
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A name used in my favourite Artois family… Memorial slab, with #MementoMori skull, in St Martin's, Carvin, to Robert Antoine & Barbe Catherine Duquesne, children of Jean François Duquesne & his wife Scholastique de Robespierre.
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This is completely true. It's also true that all doctors in the USA first have a BS or a BA degree from a university and it's generally considered important that physicians be capable of empathy and dealing with uncertainty. These skills are taught in the Humanities (which NIH, NSF etc do not fund).
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