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Françoise Baillet @fbaillet.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Upcoming event: "Global Circulations: Annuals and Pocket Books on the Move" (Caen Normandie, 26-17 November). Interested in joining us, in person or online (keynotes only)? Full programme and registration (until October 31) accessible here: circulations-26.sciencesconf.org

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Françoise Baillet @fbaillet.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Oh it was, Priti! This lovely guy took us down to the library basement, where all kinds of printing presses are stored, including an original Stanhope model from the late 18th c. (pic. 1), and Félicien Rops's own wooden press (pic. 2)! We were ecstatic!

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Françoise Baillet @fbaillet.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Both amazing papers on transnational exchanges and the fight for free speech, from the Weimar Republic to Van Diemen's Land (Tasmania) and New York.

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Françoise Baillet @fbaillet.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

On my way back to Paris after three incredible days at the Royal Library of Belgium (KBR) for #ESPRit2026. Beyond the stimulating keynotes and panels, today's highlight was undoubtedly a tour of the library's printing museum with the lovely and knowledgeable Bart Op de Beeck. Many thanks to him!

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Françoise Baillet @fbaillet.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Three fascinating papers on image as the locus of a cultural conversation across time and space. Picture: Veronica Bassini (University of Genova) — “Beyond the Page: Non-Print Archives and the World of Illustrated Periodicals through the Pipein Gamba Fund” #ESPRit2026 #PeriodicalsandtheWorld

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Françoise Baillet @fbaillet.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

On my way to the Royal Library of Belgium to attend the ESPRit: European Society for Periodical Research annual conference! Picture: Robert and Isabella Bremner's passport (National Library of Scotland). I just love the "Bon pour la Belgique" visa stamp.

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Françoise Baillet @fbaillet.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Looking forward to presenting our ANR-funded international @punchspocketbook.bsky.social at the annual conf. of the European Society for Periodical Research (ESPRit) in Brussels, next month. "Roaming the World with Punch’s Pocket Book" will examine the annual from the viewpoint of intern. movement.

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Françoise Baillet @fbaillet.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Punch's Pocket Book Archive has been selected for a substantial award from the @agencerecherche.bsky.social! This will allow us to create two jobs, and bring the project to completion in 2030. With thanks to @rs4vp.org, @l19cmanmet.bsky.social and all members of the project, past and present.

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Françoise Baillet @fbaillet.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Working on manuscripts comes with wonderful suprises. These dried flowers are likely to have been picked and pressed by Isabella Bremner during her voyage to India, in 1853. #PunchsPocketBookArchiveProject

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Françoise Baillet @fbaillet.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

So grateful to #RSVP2026 for these three wonderful days at Trinity College! It was a privilege to attend these amazing panels and plenaries.

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Françoise Baillet @fbaillet.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

In today's mail, this wonderful edition of William B. Osgood Field's "John Leech on my Shelves," a catalogue raisonné of Field's extensive collection of original drawings, illustrated books, etchings and wood blocks, today kept at the Houghton Library, @harvard.edu

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Françoise Baillet @fbaillet.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

Wishing you all a happy, exciting, and creative new year!

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Françoise Baillet @fbaillet.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

The Tammany Scrapbooks in display at the Polonsky Exhibition of The New York Public Library's Treasures. A thought for the late Brian Maidment, whose illuminating writings on the subject helped me understand and enjoy nineteenth-century scrapbooks.

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Françoise Baillet @fbaillet.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

Back in Cambridge, with fantastic memories of that NYC Thanksgiving weekend. Within the space of 3 days, I saw more treasures than that cartoon pirate hoarded, at the top of one of the Parade's floats. I also walked like a marathon and am aching in muscles I did not know existed. Roll on, Xmas!

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Françoise Baillet @fbaillet.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

Just wondering about the 'etc'...

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Françoise Baillet @fbaillet.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

Triumph of Religion, John Singer Sargent's extraordinary murals at @bpl.boston.gov Boston Public Library. Madame X nowhere to be seen.

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Françoise Baillet @fbaillet.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

Many thanks to our wonderful speakers and audience, last Friday at the British Library, for our "Pictorial Punch - Treasures from the Archive" event. Punch's Pocket Book Archive is now entering its second phase: keep in touch!

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Françoise Baillet @fbaillet.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

The V&A East Storehouse is a sort of IKEArt: you just wander between racks full of furniture, tableware and decoration until you are caught by surprise by a giant cello or a 16th century Spanish ceiling (set up without an Allen key). Extraordinary.

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Françoise Baillet @fbaillet.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

Today's treat was a private 'sneak peek' of the British Library’s forthcoming special display commemorating the 250th anniversary of the American Revolution. Erudite and enlightening presentation by the BL curators. Enjoying that ATBL fellowship soooo much.

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Françoise Baillet @fbaillet.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

...has been treated to a wonderful private view of Sambourne House/Leighton House collections and archives: drawers full of uncatalogued letters, pull-out sliding racks replete with sketches, pictures, and diaries, stimulating conversations with experts. I feel so lucky.

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Françoise Baillet @fbaillet.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

What a lovely surprise, today, to learn that @universite-caen.bsky.social holds complete runs of The Yellow Book and The Savoy! The collections will now be given pride of place among our Victorian holdings. #TheYellowBook #TheSavoy

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Françoise Baillet @fbaillet.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

How I think I look when teaching / How I actually look

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Françoise Baillet @fbaillet.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

Dear colleagues and friends, ERIBIA (Équipe de Recherche Interdisciplinaire sur la Grande-Bretagne, l'Irlande et l'Amérique du Nord) wishes you all a successful and fulfilling New Year 2025. (All pictures were taken on campus last winter)

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Françoise Baillet @fbaillet.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

Insane waiting lines - un monde fou - for the Figures du fou exhibition at the museelouvre.bsky.social, yesterday. N'empêche: those of us who did not lose limbs to frostbite while waiting finally discovered a somptuous display of folie furieuse, from the Middle Ages to the early 19th century.

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Françoise Baillet @fbaillet.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

Hi Mercedes, is this the article you're after?

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Françoise Baillet @fbaillet.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

Excellente pioche pour mon premier @parisfantastic.bsky.social de l'année: Strange Darling, un polar troussé en six chapitres, où Willa Fitzgerald et Kyle Gallner crèvent l'écran (et deux ou trois autres trucs). C'est à la fois drôle et terrifiant, haletant et mesuré et surtout, très très bien joué.

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Françoise Baillet @fbaillet.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Thrilled to learn that my paper proposal for the 2025 conference of the Research Society for Victorian Periodicals has been accepted! I'm going to Chicago next July! <3 <3

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