Alexia Yates
@ayates.bsky.social
Historian of modern Europe, global urban history, history of economic life. Florence/Manchester/Paris/Toronto/St.John’s.
Sunday mornings are always awful on here - UK news routinely drops something on HE and refugees. But for some reason I find it especially hard to take today. Maybe it’s the extra smattering of Epstein et. al.
Get outside folks.
Get outside folks.
November 16, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Sunday mornings are always awful on here - UK news routinely drops something on HE and refugees. But for some reason I find it especially hard to take today. Maybe it’s the extra smattering of Epstein et. al.
Get outside folks.
Get outside folks.
Saw this today, forever changed, no big deal.
I do have news for the guide, though. 150 000 francs in 1936/7 (what Picasso was paid) was not that much in today’s money - something around 75 000Euro, I think. (Still fine, I suppose…but we aren’t talking 1910s francs…)
I do have news for the guide, though. 150 000 francs in 1936/7 (what Picasso was paid) was not that much in today’s money - something around 75 000Euro, I think. (Still fine, I suppose…but we aren’t talking 1910s francs…)
November 3, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Saw this today, forever changed, no big deal.
I do have news for the guide, though. 150 000 francs in 1936/7 (what Picasso was paid) was not that much in today’s money - something around 75 000Euro, I think. (Still fine, I suppose…but we aren’t talking 1910s francs…)
I do have news for the guide, though. 150 000 francs in 1936/7 (what Picasso was paid) was not that much in today’s money - something around 75 000Euro, I think. (Still fine, I suppose…but we aren’t talking 1910s francs…)
The history department bulletin board crammed with no fewer than 12 PhD defenses in the next six weeks. 2 history PhDs a week out into the world! That’s a lot of great research.
October 29, 2025 at 9:20 PM
The history department bulletin board crammed with no fewer than 12 PhD defenses in the next six weeks. 2 history PhDs a week out into the world! That’s a lot of great research.
Please consider this news in light of statements like these from the ostensible heights of Canadian politics.
The Daily News is a lifesaver for news from the Left. Take a listen!
The Daily News is a lifesaver for news from the Left. Take a listen!
October 3, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Please consider this news in light of statements like these from the ostensible heights of Canadian politics.
The Daily News is a lifesaver for news from the Left. Take a listen!
The Daily News is a lifesaver for news from the Left. Take a listen!
There are some things I really admire about Italy, like these spontaneous demonstrations in piazze all over the country right now.
October 1, 2025 at 9:49 PM
There are some things I really admire about Italy, like these spontaneous demonstrations in piazze all over the country right now.
Sometimes good things still happen in the 3$ bin at the Salvation Army.
(Sadly libretto *not* enclosed.)
(Sadly libretto *not* enclosed.)
September 15, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Sometimes good things still happen in the 3$ bin at the Salvation Army.
(Sadly libretto *not* enclosed.)
(Sadly libretto *not* enclosed.)
Top comment on the money
September 4, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Top comment on the money
This is how trees grow where I’m from, how about you?
August 15, 2025 at 11:36 AM
This is how trees grow where I’m from, how about you?
When Air Canada stewards strike (full support!) and you’re stranded for the foreseeable, seek caloric comfort in the local delicacies.
August 14, 2025 at 9:17 PM
When Air Canada stewards strike (full support!) and you’re stranded for the foreseeable, seek caloric comfort in the local delicacies.
There’s a whole field out here barely holding the line and this is what our guild representatives spit out.
y.yarn.co/fcffc5a3-606...
y.yarn.co/fcffc5a3-606...
August 5, 2025 at 7:29 PM
There’s a whole field out here barely holding the line and this is what our guild representatives spit out.
y.yarn.co/fcffc5a3-606...
y.yarn.co/fcffc5a3-606...
Found the world’s most delightful museum and it’s Skissernas - a museum dedicated to sketches and preparatory works of public art. A little jewel that bowled me over.
A fascinating way to think about creative process as well as the relationship between art and the public in the 20th century.
A fascinating way to think about creative process as well as the relationship between art and the public in the 20th century.
July 31, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Found the world’s most delightful museum and it’s Skissernas - a museum dedicated to sketches and preparatory works of public art. A little jewel that bowled me over.
A fascinating way to think about creative process as well as the relationship between art and the public in the 20th century.
A fascinating way to think about creative process as well as the relationship between art and the public in the 20th century.
And there’s more - no wonder there is a packed house here this morning.
July 29, 2025 at 10:41 AM
And there’s more - no wonder there is a packed house here this morning.
If you’re going to talk about women and finance, take advantage of the gorgeous visuals! Wonderful morning double panel on women and financial history.
July 29, 2025 at 9:29 AM
If you’re going to talk about women and finance, take advantage of the gorgeous visuals! Wonderful morning double panel on women and financial history.
Perfect and delightful slide from Orsi Husz and David Larsson Heidenblad on turning wage earners (or are they taxpayers) into investors in modern Sweden.
July 28, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Perfect and delightful slide from Orsi Husz and David Larsson Heidenblad on turning wage earners (or are they taxpayers) into investors in modern Sweden.
This is a very good opening to the World Economic History Congress.
Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk Keynote on it intersectional political economy.
Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk Keynote on it intersectional political economy.
July 28, 2025 at 8:22 AM
This is a very good opening to the World Economic History Congress.
Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk Keynote on it intersectional political economy.
Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk Keynote on it intersectional political economy.
Look at these registers - which are already a database! Highly accessible! In person and online!
July 25, 2025 at 9:26 AM
Look at these registers - which are already a database! Highly accessible! In person and online!
I hardly dare click 😂
July 22, 2025 at 1:07 PM
I hardly dare click 😂
I waited until the very last day - in fact, the last hour - to run to the Tracy Emin “Sex and Solitude” show at the Palazzo Strozzi and it was a pure delight. Dithered because UK, been there, etc. But very privileged to see it - it felt so meaningful in that place, and in this city.
July 20, 2025 at 8:12 PM
I waited until the very last day - in fact, the last hour - to run to the Tracy Emin “Sex and Solitude” show at the Palazzo Strozzi and it was a pure delight. Dithered because UK, been there, etc. But very privileged to see it - it felt so meaningful in that place, and in this city.
Reading early Atwood and I have got to say that the nearly animalistic feminism and the rollicking anti-Americanism are deeply compelling.
July 13, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Reading early Atwood and I have got to say that the nearly animalistic feminism and the rollicking anti-Americanism are deeply compelling.
Ending a fantastic trip to Berlin for the @globalurbanhistory.bsky.social conference with just enough time to see this wonder.
July 13, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Ending a fantastic trip to Berlin for the @globalurbanhistory.bsky.social conference with just enough time to see this wonder.
Today in Livorno I went straight to the Monumento dei Quattro Mori (on the direction of @moualdi.bsky.social). Then saw this terrific communist poster reproduced in the (surprisingly excellent?) city museum. Thoroughly impressed.
June 22, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Today in Livorno I went straight to the Monumento dei Quattro Mori (on the direction of @moualdi.bsky.social). Then saw this terrific communist poster reproduced in the (surprisingly excellent?) city museum. Thoroughly impressed.
And they need to get Robert Caro’s name out of their unworthy mouths.
June 16, 2025 at 11:04 AM
And they need to get Robert Caro’s name out of their unworthy mouths.
Closing day of rich discussions on the history and present-day life of the Haitian debt. Coinciding with important signs that things are capable of changing.
www.assemblee-nationale.fr/dyn/16/dossi...
www.assemblee-nationale.fr/dyn/16/dossi...
June 14, 2025 at 7:49 AM
Closing day of rich discussions on the history and present-day life of the Haitian debt. Coinciding with important signs that things are capable of changing.
www.assemblee-nationale.fr/dyn/16/dossi...
www.assemblee-nationale.fr/dyn/16/dossi...
The EUI hosted a moving and probing conversation with Didier Fassin yesterday about moral abdication and Gaza. It is a disquieting satisfaction to hear such clear thinking on this devastating topic.
May 29, 2025 at 7:54 AM
The EUI hosted a moving and probing conversation with Didier Fassin yesterday about moral abdication and Gaza. It is a disquieting satisfaction to hear such clear thinking on this devastating topic.