Very much looking forward to this year's Rudé conference in French history and culture, hosted by Macquarie University. Check out the provisional program – a feast of excellent scholarship.

A cigarette and a milkshake at the cafe at Australia Square, Sydney, in 1970 (National Archives of Australia)

🎙️ La guerre d'Ataï, résister à l'ordre colonial en Nouvelle-Calédonie ce matin à 9h00, Xavier Mauduit reçoit Christelle Patin sur France Culture

Découvrez son ouvrage ⤵️
📚 Ataï, un chef kanak au musée : Histoires d'un héritage colonial

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Melbourne is soon to have a bar where punters drink in prison cells. But as Debbie Kilroy says “Prison isn't a game. It's harsh, brutal and all too often a life-ending reality. Privileged white people cosplaying…while real people suffer is just grotesque”theguardian.com/australia-news…

Your unsolicited anagram of the name of a person born on this day – 29 May – in London in 1630 is
Charles II => Irish lace

French criminologist Alexandre Lacassagne went to Algeria as a medical doctor in the late 19th c. While there he made albums of military and common law prisoners’ tattoos. Long thought lost, the albums are now at the Santé Rockfeller uni library in Lyon. france3-regions.francetvinfo.fr/auvergne-rhone…

Bagne et colonisation, double peine pour la Nouvelle-Calédonie

Entre déportation des bagnards et expropriation des Kanaks, à quoi ressemble la société coloniale en Nouvelle-Calédonie ?

Le Cours de l’histoire sur France Culture

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Adrian Muckle is one of our invited speakers at this year’s The George Rudé Society conference in Sydney in July. He’ll be discussing the history of the indigénat in New Caledonia, a subject that has become particularly topical in recent weeks. V much looking fwd to hearing him speak.

15. Gaza (2023 - 2024) 🇵🇸

Another page from one of JMW Turner's sketchbooks:
'A Town on a Distant Ridge,' 1798 (graphite and watercolour on paper, Tate collection)

A display explains Telecom Australia's new phonecard system in a Queensland shopping centre in 1990 (National Archives of Australia)

Anyone in Melbourne wanting to understand what's going on in New Caledonia and its implications, get along to this event on Wednesday with Nic Maclellan

A timeless ensemble for the 1971 Australian Wool Awards (National Archives of Australia)

Excellent idea (especially if the citrus fruit are edible…)

'Moon seems clean', 'Moon men are fit' – headlines outside a milk bar on the Nepean Highway in Brighton, Melbourne, c.1969 (photo by Angus O’Callaghan)

Your unsolicited anagram of the name of a person born on this day - 25 May - in southern Italy in 1887 is Padre Pio => Drop a pie

Could never go past Ginzburg, Davis, Burke etc.
But what about others?

Alex Griffiths – local beekeeper, flower grower and founder of Currumbin Bird Sanctuary – feeding the lorikeets at the sanctuary in Queensland in 1958 (City of Gold Coast collection)

Your unsolicited anagram of the name of a person born on this day – 24 May – in Boudry, Switzerland, in 1743 is Jean-Paul Marat => Neutral pajama

Your unsolicited anagram of the name of a person born on this day – 23 May – in Råshult in 1707 is Carl Linnaeus => Cleans urinal