Briony Neilson
@brionyneilson.bsky.social
Historian of 19th-century France—juvenile incarceration, prisons, settler/penal colonies (esp New Caledonia)
Book: "Dangers of Youth" www.mqup.ca/dangers-of-youth-products-9780228024330.php
Based in Sydney, Australia
Book: "Dangers of Youth" www.mqup.ca/dangers-of-youth-products-9780228024330.php
Based in Sydney, Australia
Thank you for your solidarity! Your fire is lovely – enjoy it!
November 27, 2025 at 1:11 AM
Thank you for your solidarity! Your fire is lovely – enjoy it!
How fascinating. Would you say your experience of school was positive overall?
November 25, 2025 at 11:28 PM
How fascinating. Would you say your experience of school was positive overall?
Am I right in assuming you went to school somewhere in the US? Funny thing is that the stereotypical American school that was projected to the world thru pop culture always had a shrill electric bell to mark the end of a school period.
November 25, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Am I right in assuming you went to school somewhere in the US? Funny thing is that the stereotypical American school that was projected to the world thru pop culture always had a shrill electric bell to mark the end of a school period.
I suspect it’s a good thing you were spared it. That tune would do funny things to people.
November 25, 2025 at 10:18 AM
I suspect it’s a good thing you were spared it. That tune would do funny things to people.
Just think how your life would have panned out differently if you’d heard this unsettling and unresolved tune broadcast to you multiple times every day instead.
November 25, 2025 at 9:37 AM
Just think how your life would have panned out differently if you’d heard this unsettling and unresolved tune broadcast to you multiple times every day instead.
😂 I feel at once such an affinity with the gag-maker and such a sense of alienation from all those others.
November 25, 2025 at 9:01 AM
😂 I feel at once such an affinity with the gag-maker and such a sense of alienation from all those others.
Sorry to hear about the rough day. Hooray for thoughtful students (and delicious biccies ✊🏻 🍪)
November 21, 2025 at 1:00 AM
Sorry to hear about the rough day. Hooray for thoughtful students (and delicious biccies ✊🏻 🍪)
Reposted by Briony Neilson
And in this wonderful open-access article in our special issue, Kate Stevens looks at performative transimperial co-operation between the British and French in the New Hebrides Condominium (Vanuatu), and at how theatrical forms of critique helped obscure the violent realities of imperial domination.
Violent Laughter: Commemorating Anglo-French Co-operation and Forgetting Violence through Gilbert and Sullivan in Colonial Vanuatu
Thomson Reid Cowell, assistant British resident commissioner in the New Hebrides (Vanuatu), wrote a musical comedy – ‘with humblest apologies to Sir William Gilbert and Sir Arthur Sullivan’ – depic...
www.tandfonline.com
November 19, 2025 at 7:04 AM
And in this wonderful open-access article in our special issue, Kate Stevens looks at performative transimperial co-operation between the British and French in the New Hebrides Condominium (Vanuatu), and at how theatrical forms of critique helped obscure the violent realities of imperial domination.
Reposted by Briony Neilson
Next up in our special issue is W. Matthew Calvert's excellent article on phosphate extraction on Walpole Island by French and British companies and entanglements with European settler colonies in the Pacific. (note: this article unfortunately isn't open access) www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Adrift in the Sea of Phosphates: Walpole Island in the Early 20th Century
During the early 20th century, the Pacific phosphate rush swept over Walpole Island, bringing it into closer orbit with New Caledonia, New Zealand, Australia, and broader circuits of contract labou...
www.tandfonline.com
November 19, 2025 at 4:09 AM
Next up in our special issue is W. Matthew Calvert's excellent article on phosphate extraction on Walpole Island by French and British companies and entanglements with European settler colonies in the Pacific. (note: this article unfortunately isn't open access) www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
And in this wonderful open-access article in our special issue, Kate Stevens looks at performative transimperial co-operation between the British and French in the New Hebrides Condominium (Vanuatu), and at how theatrical forms of critique helped obscure the violent realities of imperial domination.
Violent Laughter: Commemorating Anglo-French Co-operation and Forgetting Violence through Gilbert and Sullivan in Colonial Vanuatu
Thomson Reid Cowell, assistant British resident commissioner in the New Hebrides (Vanuatu), wrote a musical comedy – ‘with humblest apologies to Sir William Gilbert and Sir Arthur Sullivan’ – depic...
www.tandfonline.com
November 19, 2025 at 7:04 AM
And in this wonderful open-access article in our special issue, Kate Stevens looks at performative transimperial co-operation between the British and French in the New Hebrides Condominium (Vanuatu), and at how theatrical forms of critique helped obscure the violent realities of imperial domination.