Peter McPhee @petermcphee.bsky.social · 28/08/2026Yes, a classic early, low budget Dr Who series, dripping with clichés. 120
Peter McPhee @petermcphee.bsky.social · 29/07/2026Yes, definitely a small puppy and sparrows on the window sill! 110
Peter McPhee @petermcphee.bsky.social · 26/12/2025You could begin with Martyn Lyons' overview then try one of the major biographies. 100
Peter McPhee @petermcphee.bsky.social · 24/12/2025Thierry Lentz is a great specialist in Napoleonic studies, but as Director of the Fondation Napoléon he presents a particular view. 100
Reposted by Peter McPheeBriony Neilson @brionyneilson.bsky.social · 15/09/2025I'm honoured to be speaking to @petermcphee.bsky.social on Mon 6 Oct at 1pm AEDT about my book Dangers of Youth: Age, Criminality, and Juvenile Justice Reform in Third Republic France at an online event hosted by the George Rudé Society. Please register here: uni-sydney.zoom.us/meeting/regi... 24113
Peter McPhee @petermcphee.bsky.social · 01/08/2025A beautiful essay about John Hirst's distinctive and significant contribution to our historical culture. 000
Peter McPhee @petermcphee.bsky.social · 25/06/2025Of course in some senses Napoleon was a soldier of the French Revolution but he also ended it in 1799. There are no clear ruptures in history. 010
Peter McPhee @petermcphee.bsky.social · 25/06/2025Yes, but I'm also thinking of applied science with directly related things like the roll out of decimal measures. 110
Peter McPhee @petermcphee.bsky.social · 25/06/2025Yes, you're quite correct: I should have had something to say about scientific and medical developments. That's a rather 'dated' volume now. 210
Peter McPhee @petermcphee.bsky.social · 20/05/2025www.abc.net.au/news/science...abc.net.au150 years ago, 17 countries signed a treaty that affects how we live todayThe next time you pick up a bag of spuds from the supermarket or fill up the car with petrol, you can thank a treaty signed in 1875 for the metric system that underpins daily life. 240
Reposted by Peter McPheeDr Nuits de Young @nuitsdeyoung.bsky.social · 14/05/2025@petermcphee.bsky.social @mlinton.bsky.social @paulchopelin.bsky.social @ser-1789.bsky.social @cecs-york.bsky.social #FrenchRevolution #FrenchHistory #Robespierre #RevolutionFrançaise 121
Peter McPhee @petermcphee.bsky.social · 09/05/2025The commemoration of the massive (and tragic) Donghak peasant rebellion of 1894 in Jeongeup, South Korea. The columns refer to the 90 places involved and the names of the identified victims are added to each year. The ring reminds us never to forget. There is no memorial like this to 1789 in France. 171
Peter McPhee @petermcphee.bsky.social · 03/05/2025Brilliant article by Brooke Boney on why acknowledging First Peoples matters and the real reason why some people won't. www.theage.com.au/national/wel...theage.com.auWelcome to Country is not an election issue, so why are we talking about it? I think I knowIf this Welcome to Country furore has shifted your vote, perhaps it’s time to come clean on your motivations. 010
Peter McPhee @petermcphee.bsky.social · 05/04/2025(from Australia) suggesting that you can explain the US dysfunction by reference to Trump and his body alone just demonstrates what's with US politics and commentary. 000
Peter McPhee @petermcphee.bsky.social · 03/04/2025Spare a thought for the 2,000 people of the Australian territory of Norfolk Island who don't export anything to anyone but now have a tariff of 59%. Smart people those MAGAs. 000
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Peter McPhee @petermcphee.bsky.social · 18/03/2025A superb example of environmental history which integrates sensory experience, cultural identity, art, politics and economics in a beautifully written and gorgeous book. 0142
Reposted by Peter McPheeDr Nuits de Young @nuitsdeyoung.bsky.social · 16/03/2025@petermcphee.bsky.social @mlinton.bsky.social #FrenchRevolution #FrenchHistory 031
Peter McPhee @petermcphee.bsky.social · 04/03/2025www.facebook.com/share/14zotK...facebook.comRedirecting... 010
Peter McPhee @petermcphee.bsky.social · 26/02/2025Alas, the easiest way to explain history is to ascribe it to a trope connected with an individual, as if the smash and grab going on in the US can be fully explained by reference to Trump 110
Peter McPhee @petermcphee.bsky.social · 26/02/2025Yes, you're right. The book sounds interesting so I'll keep an open mind! 110
Peter McPhee @petermcphee.bsky.social · 26/02/2025The old clichés about "Robespierre's Terror" and his omnipotent control, apparently even over mirrors and underwear. Thanks for sending. 110
Reposted by Peter McPheePeter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 25/02/2025Macron made Trump “the first president in history who had to be interrupted and corrected by an ally when the president of the United States was lying and lying about that ally” www.huffpost.com/entry/lawren...huffpost.comTrump Dragged After Being ‘Fully Humiliated On The World Stage’Donald Trump was “humiliated and exposed in a way that no previous president ever could be," said MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell. 1242766811
Reposted by Peter McPheeHistory Council of Victoria @historycouncilvic.bsky.social · 12/02/2025🎉 We are excited to join the history community here at BlueSky as the peak body for history in the Australian state of Victoria! Follow us for updates about HCV events, advocacy, news and opportunities. We have a bumper calendar coming up in 2025! ➡️ Learn more: www.historycouncilvic.org.auhistorycouncilvic.org.auHistory Council of VictoriaThe History Council of Victoria is the peak body for history in Victoria. Through its activities, it encourages the understanding, appreciation and enjoyment of history, and aims to raise the profile ... 041
Reposted by Peter McPheeHistory Council of Victoria @historycouncilvic.bsky.social · 12/02/2025📚We are excited to announce our first Book+Author event of the year, feat historian Dr Geraldine Fela in conversation with our excellent host, Dr Yves Rees! The talk will take place in our brand new venue, the intimate Bard's Apothecary. ➡️Book now: historycouncilvic.org.au/book_author_... 031
Reposted by Peter McPheeDr Nuits de Young @nuitsdeyoung.bsky.social · 11/02/2025A name used in my favourite Artois family… Memorial slab, with #MementoMori skull, in St Martin's, Carvin, to Robert Antoine & Barbe Catherine Duquesne, children of Jean François Duquesne & his wife Scholastique de Robespierre. @ser-1789.bsky.social @petermcphee.bsky.social @mlinton.bsky.social 151
Reposted by Peter McPheeRebecca Spang @rlspang.bsky.social · 09/02/2025This is completely true. It's also true that all doctors in the USA first have a BS or a BA degree from a university and it's generally considered important that physicians be capable of empathy and dealing with uncertainty. These skills are taught in the Humanities (which NIH, NSF etc do not fund). 1347
Reposted by Peter McPheeDr Nuits de Young @nuitsdeyoung.bsky.social · 30/01/2025For #18thCenturyists, let us remember Ms Faithfull as one of the more authentic-looking figures in Coppola's 'Marie Antoinette': Maria Theresia. @invitinghistory.bsky.social @suburbanbeatnik.bsky.social @hottycouture.bsky.social @mlinton.bsky.social @petermcphee.bsky.social @annihawk.bsky.social 0296
Reposted by Peter McPheeDr Nuits de Young @nuitsdeyoung.bsky.social · 30/01/2025@mlinton.bsky.social @petermcphee.bsky.social @invitinghistory.bsky.social @suburbanbeatnik.bsky.social @annihawk.bsky.social @ser-1789.bsky.social 042
Reposted by Peter McPheePeter McPhee @petermcphee.bsky.social · 28/01/2025Are we at a turning point in world history? | David Motadel www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...theguardian.comAre we at a turning point in world history? | David MotadelPolitical leaders increasingly caution that we are facing a historical ‘inflection point’. Are we? 023
Peter McPhee @petermcphee.bsky.social · 28/01/2025Are we at a turning point in world history? | David Motadel www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...theguardian.comAre we at a turning point in world history? | David MotadelPolitical leaders increasingly caution that we are facing a historical ‘inflection point’. Are we? 023
Reposted by Peter McPheeJennifer Yee @jenwhy.bsky.social · 26/01/2025Linen was essential, for clothing and sail-making in France from the middle ages until the 18thC. #Frenchpodcast with fascinating details on techniques and lots on production in Brittany, with @nadegegauffre.bsky.social and @soazigvillerbu.bsky.social #FreHistory www.radiofrance.fr/francecultur...radiofrance.frTisser du lin, une histoire cousue de fil blanc : épisode 1/4 du podcast Textiles, une histoire étofféeAUDIO • Textiles, une histoire étoffée, épisode 1/4 : Tisser du lin, une histoire cousue de fil blanc. Une série inédite proposée par France Culture. Écoutez Le Cours de l'histoire, et découvrez nos p... 0124
Reposted by Peter McPheeThe French History Podcast @fhp.bsky.social · 12/01/2025In most developed countries people of all political leanings believe climate change is a global threat (86% of left-wingers and 75% of right-wingers in France!), with the exceptions of the US, Israel Canada and Australia where their right-wingers deny the threat posed by climate change. 0223
Reposted by Peter McPheeDr Nuits de Young @nuitsdeyoung.bsky.social · 01/01/2025Here in the UK there are curriculum issues. When I was at high school 1978-83, we did courses covering 2-3 centuries across diff countries. Now, there are 'modules' – gter depth, but more narrowly focussed & unconnected chronologically. No overview of what happened when, where, across Europe/world. 131
Peter McPhee @petermcphee.bsky.social · 01/01/2025I agree, but there are other factors: history was most popular in high schools 50 years ago before being crowded out of the curriculum by new subjects. Why didn't history retain its appeal as senior high school numbers grew? 210
Reposted by Peter McPheeBriony Neilson @brionyneilson.bsky.social · 24/12/2024Cell door from Saint Lazare prison - among the objects on show at the ‘Paris 1793-1794: Une année révolutionnaire’ exhibition at the Musée Carnavalet 1304
Reposted by Peter McPheeHenrike Lähnemann @hlaehnemann.bsky.social · 22/12/2024#nuntastic #teamnun - brilliant example of medieval women's voices resurfacing! 192
Reposted by Peter McPheeBérénice Gagne @berenicegagne.bsky.social · 20/12/2024"Le retour à la vie des petites rivières urbaines" @cnrs.bsky.social "En France, des milliers de kilomètres de petits cours d’eau urbains oubliés et pollués au cours du temps constituent pourtant un réseau hydrographique essentiel à l’environnement" #inondations lejournal.cnrs.fr/articles/le-... 11510
Reposted by Peter McPheeLe Canard enchaîné @lecanardenchaine.fr · 15/12/2024✏️ Vu par Aurel (@jesuisaurel.bsky.social) #assad 28425
Peter McPhee @petermcphee.bsky.social · 12/12/2024For people in Melbourne, this digitally augmented 3D exhibition on the history and reconstruction of Notre Dame de Paris is a must see, now on at the Immigration Museum. 231
Reposted by Peter McPheeBriony Neilson @brionyneilson.bsky.social · 11/12/2024For me, André Zysberg will forever be synonymous with the history of French port city bagnes and quantitative history. RIP. 🗃 051