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Jennifer Yee @jenwhy.bsky.social · 2d

I expect the U.K. version will have Civil War re-enactments and Anglo-Saxon feasting.

Jennifer Yee @jenwhy.bsky.social · 3d

Just published: a massive history of France, ed by @ericanceau.bsky.social. #frenchpodcast which in this episode only mentions France's ex-colonies in an interesting discussion of the term 'roman national' and how divisive debates on colonialism have been. www.radiofrance.fr/francecultur...

Histoire de France, un récit commun ? : épisode du podcast Écrire l'histoire de France, mode d'emploi

AUDIO • Écrire l'histoire de France, mode d'emploi, épisode : Histoire de France, un récit commun ?. Une série inédite proposée par France Culture. Écoutez Le Cours de l'histoire, et découvrez nos po...

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Jennifer Yee @jenwhy.bsky.social · 3d

I have never been there but it sounds dodgy. I did once go to a battle of Hastings reenactment at which hordes of ‘Anglo-Saxons’ chanted ‘out out out’ while banging their shields, which was… interesting.

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Jennifer Yee @jenwhy.bsky.social · 5d

Philosophical 'libertinage' in the 17thC seems to have been a sort of radical materialist doubt, along with interest in what passed for science at the time (including magic and alchemy). #Frenchpodcast, first in series of 3. www.radiofrance.fr/francecultur...

D'où vient la pensée libertine ? : épisode du podcast Les courants libertins, un état d'esprit

AUDIO • Les courants libertins, un état d'esprit , épisode : D'où vient la pensée libertine ?. Une série inédite proposée par France Culture. Écoutez Avec philosophie, et découvrez nos podcasts en li...

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Jennifer Yee @jenwhy.bsky.social · 5d

Le Puy du Fou, the French historical (re?)enactment entertainment park that is aiming to open a new branch near Oxford, has a somewhat divisive background in reactionary French politics. A very topical #frenchpodcast. #Frhistory www.radiofrance.fr/franceinter/...

Le Puy du Fou : visiter et revisiter l’Histoire

Aujourd’hui dans Affaires Sensibles, le Puy-du-Fou : visiter et revisiter l’Histoire

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Jennifer Yee @jenwhy.bsky.social · 7d

Japanese woodblock prints and literary cityscapes in my article - just out with @frenchstudies.bsky.social - 'Zola’s Une page d’amour: The Novelist as Japanese Artist'. French Studies, Vol. 79, No. 4, 565–584.

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Jennifer Yee @jenwhy.bsky.social · 10d

Research on the wedding night in 19thC France took Aïcha Limbada to the Vatican archives to look at cases for divorce (other sources include publications by well-meaning doctors and... George Sand). #Frenchpodcast #Frhistory shows.acast.com/storiavoce/e...

La nuit de noces au XIXᵉ siècle, avec Aïcha Limbada | Storiavoce

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Rachel Mesch @rmesch.bsky.social · 14d

#FrHistory #LGBTQ🏳️‍🌈📚🗃️

Rachel Mesch @rmesch.bsky.social · 14d

Please join us on Friday to hear @hannahfrydman.bsky.social speak with Raisa Rexer about her brilliant new book, Between the Sheets: Sexuality, Classified Advertising, and the Moral Threat to Press Freedom in France!!! 🔥🔥🔥

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Jennifer Yee @jenwhy.bsky.social · 13d

Dangerous steering? Spotted from my office window this afternoon.

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Jennifer Yee @jenwhy.bsky.social · 13d

This series of podcasts on ancient Gaza from @empirepoduk.bsky.social is astounding. Gaza is first mentioned in Egyptian written sources in the 15thC BC and 'Philistine' was bad press directed at Palestinians... podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/2...

291. Ancient Gaza: The Philistines (Part 1)

Podcast Episode · Empire · 17/09/2025 · 45m

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William Dalrymple @willdalrymple.bsky.social · 26d

New series from @EmpirePodUK
THE HISTORY OF GAZA

291. Ancient Gaza: The Philistines
Empire – Apple Podcasts share.google/7fne19kFfVLw...

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Jennifer Yee @jenwhy.bsky.social · Sep 12

I'm delighted that my article on 'Zola's Une Page d'amour: the Novelist as Japanese artist' has now been published by French Studies
@livunipress.bsky.social
Japonisme is not the same as japonaiserie!
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Zola’s Une page d’amour: The Novelist as Japanese Artist | French Studies

In the 1860s and 1870s Japanese art inspired great enthusiasm in France, both in fashionable Parisian circles and among artists. A dual response to this art underlies Émile Zola’s novel Une page d’amour (1878). The novel shows us japonaiserie — the ...

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Jennifer Yee @jenwhy.bsky.social · Sep 10

I’m writing about Orientalism, so was very interested to see these examples of 18th century Occidentalism from the Qing dynasty in Taipei’s National Palace Museum.

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Jennifer Yee @jenwhy.bsky.social · Sep 9

Teapot art, the zoomorphic variety

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Jennifer Yee @jenwhy.bsky.social · Sep 8

Here is a cat outside a postcard shop pretending to be a cat in a postcard, in Jiufen, aka Ghibli-lookalike village in the mountains near Taipei. Not even #caturday!

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Jennifer Yee @jenwhy.bsky.social · Aug 30

Vasari invented art history with a specific agenda: to make the case that Florentine art was the best, with Michelangelo its greatest exemplar. Now I feel I have succumbed to propaganda. Interesting podcast from @sixteenthcgirl.bsky.social
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Vasari: Inventor of Artistic Genius

Podcast Episode · Not Just the Tudors · 07/08/2025 · 1h 4m

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Jennifer Yee @jenwhy.bsky.social · Aug 30

This whole mini-series on the five partitions of the British Raj that gave shape to modern South Asia kept making my jaw drop. To start: not one partition but 5; oh, and 500+ monarchies being dissolved into republics overnight (eat your hat, Robespierre!).

Empire Podcast @empirepoduk.bsky.social · Aug 5

💥 NEW SERIES LAUNCH DAY 💥

🌏The Five Partitions That Reshaped Modern Asia🌏

Episode 1...

INDIA'S FIRST PARTITION: BURMA'S BREXIT

@anitaanand.bsky.social and @willdalrymple.bsky.social discuss Burma's dramatic separation from India in 1937.

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Jennifer Yee @jenwhy.bsky.social · Aug 24

Just a little plug to express my admiration for the Oxford Clarion. After years of being annoyed by the Oxford Mail, at last I realise that Oxford does have a local newspaper of the intelligence that it deserves.

Oxford Clarion @oxfordclarion.bsky.social · Aug 22

Oxfordshire's newsiest newsletter is out. This week featuring:
⚖️Legal action on short lets
🛟Asylum seekers
🚲Reform & cycle paths in Didcot
🎢An unlikely tourist hotspot?
🍻Pub news
💦Pissers
All this and much much more. Read online or sign up to get it by email.
oxfordclarion.uk/clarion-week...

Clarion Weekly, 22 August 2025

Is Bicester the future of UK tourism? Is GWR’s new battery train the fastest milk float in the west? What is a canal ‘pisser’? And how do you run a ‘Luxury Aparthotel’ in Oxford? All these unusual que...

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Jennifer Yee @jenwhy.bsky.social · Aug 24

On Henri IV, France's favourite king, who might not really have said that he wished every French family could have a chicken in the pot once a week, but who was admirably inclined to pragmatic compromise in the midst of the wars of religion. #Frenchpodcast #FrHistory www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKl8...

Henri IV, le roi providentiel, avec Jean-Christian Petitfils

YouTube video by Storiavoce, un podcast d'Histoire & Civilisations

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Defend Our Juries @defendourjuries.bsky.social · Aug 24

BREAKING: Baptist minister, James Grote, was just arrested under the Terrorism Act.

His alleged crime? Holding a placard outside his church in Oxford which said: "I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action"

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Jennifer Yee @jenwhy.bsky.social · Aug 24

In the family of French right-wing movements I give you 'le boulangisme': slavishly following a random and not very bright Strong Man (in this case tall, good-looking and with a military background, but other eras may have other priorities). #Frenchpodcast www.radiofrance.fr/francecultur...

Le boulangisme, une droite pas trop cuite s'il vous plaît : épisode 2/4 du podcast Histoire des droites, du roi au libéralisme

AUDIO • Histoire des droites, du roi au libéralisme, épisode 2/4 : Le boulangisme, une droite pas trop cuite s'il vous plaît . Une série inédite proposée par France Culture. Écoutez Le Cours de l'hist...

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Jennifer Yee @jenwhy.bsky.social · Aug 24

On Diderot and the Encyclopédie as a truly radical new form of 'dictionnaire', partly saved by Malesherbes who was, ironically, in charge of censorship. #Frenchpodcat #FreHistory #philosophy www.radiofrance.fr/francecultur...

L'Encyclopédie : la véritable œuvre de Diderot ? : épisode 3/4 du podcast Diderot, audacieux au sein des Lumières

AUDIO • Diderot, audacieux au sein des Lumières, épisode 3/4 : L'Encyclopédie : la véritable œuvre de Diderot ?. Une série inédite proposée par France Culture. Écoutez Avec philosophie, et découvrez n...

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Jennifer Yee @jenwhy.bsky.social · Aug 24

On Diderot as a true atheist and materialist - rare among the philosophes. #frenchpodcast #FrHistory #philosophy www.radiofrance.fr/francecultur...

Diderot, philosophe athée et matérialiste : épisode 1/4 du podcast Diderot, audacieux au sein des Lumières

AUDIO • Diderot, audacieux au sein des Lumières, épisode 1/4 : Diderot, philosophe athée et matérialiste. Une série inédite proposée par France Culture. Écoutez Avec philosophie, et découvrez nos podc...

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Jennifer Yee @jenwhy.bsky.social · Aug 17

The Dreyfus Affair retold not as one conspiracy theory but a meeting of two or even three conspiracy theories. And the real traitor, the rather petty crim Esterhazy, ends up as a drinking companion for Oscar Wilde 😮.

Past Present Future Podcast @ppfideas.bsky.social · Aug 17

NEW EPISODE OUT NOW!

Today David tells the tale of the Dreyfus Affair that split France down the middle and revealed the grip of a whole host of conspiracy theories. The story of a letter found in a wastebin turned into a saga about who really controlled the country.

Find us at...🎧 ppfideas.com

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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · Aug 16

So, you mean 80% of graduates have benefited financially from it?

And, whisper it quietly, but *UNIVERSITY EDUCATION ISN’T JUST ABOUT SALARY*

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