Writing about freedom, uncertainty, and precarity in early modern France. @hilda_beastoxf
Oxford / London
Joined August 2011
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Things have picked up and @LukeNOSullivan and I are enjoying teo Punky Penguins at the Maharaja #SFS2024 @french_studies
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“The ricotta eaters” (Vincenzo Campi, ca. 1580). I consider this to be the worst painting I have ever seen
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Amidst all the wonderful memories of NZD being shared this week I still think too few historians know that the guys who wrote Les Mis turned The Return of Martin Guerre into a Broadway musical. youtu.be/_PCVCNN5Wls?si=26hn…
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... except in so far as, you know, I need to get paid. And universities are already under some threat so we gotta play our cards careful. Anyway point is: from a strictly educational point of view I don't see any issue with majority A's. The problem is one of political economy.
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just saw a really cool diagram about aphantasia with 5 human heads and different levels of apple visualisation. can't find the image again but i'm sure you can picture it
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solved the mystery of why my gf was being met with such confusion by every mexican waiter and it turns out she’s been opening by saying “no hablo ingles”
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Delighted to see my fellow @hilda_beastoxf French Fellow @LukeNOSullivan's article out in the latest issue of @FrenchStudies, 'Moving Pictures of the French Wars of Religion'.
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why are you worrying, we’re on the end of the Titanic that’s going *up*
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From a purely poetic perspective, 'water firm collapses' is a fascinating phrase
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Just found out about Pablo Picasso. These paintings make me feel sick. That's not what stuff looks like.
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Catch me nervously speaking in my first bit of live radio, with super interesting guests. Why smell matters, why historians should care more about it, and how the sneeze has been a thinking tool...with cameos from Montaigne & La Condamine. Thank you @torqmac @BBCFreeThinking !
Smells and sneezing. A rich mix of biology and culture @BBCFreeThinking in the discussion between @GemmaTidman @WillTullett @chriskelly151 and me, concocted by the irrepressible Rana Mitter and producer @torqmac bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001lz…
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I wrote “I am alive” on a piece of paper, and placed it into a photocopier. What I saw next has shocking implications
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Delighted that the anglosphere is discovering the mad French habit of sexy retitling. The most perfect example? The retitling of 1999's Cruel Intentions, a modern version of Les Liaisons Dangereuses, as... SEXE INTENTIONS
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Scrawled this for myself yesterday as a prompt for a video I was recording.
Left it lying around and now my colleague thinks I'm in the middle of an existential crisis.
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The Unabomber, Ted Kaczynski, was identified by the FBI partly because of his use of the original phrase ‘you can't eat your cake and have it’ and not the popularised / bastardised modern version (‘you can’t have your cake and eat it’) in both his manifesto and personal letters