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The opening of a Gothic novel 🗃

The opening of a Gothic novel 🗃

"We cannot allow our collective grief and fear to be used as a political weapon to attack the Palestine solidarity movement or any other democratic movement... The path to safety is democratic and rooted in our shared community" – Jewish Council of Australia petitions.getup.org.au/petitions/fr...

A hive of activity in the central post office on the rue du Louvre as postal workers sort the mail – Paris, 1923 (Gallica, BnF) 🗃️

"We cannot allow our collective grief and fear to be used as a political weapon to attack the Palestine solidarity movement or any other democratic movement... The path to safety is democratic and rooted in our shared community" – Jewish Council of Australia petitions.getup.org.au/petitions/fr...

After the horrific attack on Jewish people at Bondi, Chris Minns has slandered those who stand for justice in Israel Palestine as responsible. He seeks to ban the words Globalise the intifada. Intifada simply means uprising. The Haiti slave revolution was intifada. So was the Warsaw ghetto uprising.

NSW premier “Chris Minns’ protest ban has the premise that preventing the murder of Jews in Sydney means consenting to the murder of Palestinians in Gaza. It is not just authoritarian: it is breathtakingly racist and must be resisted.” Opposing genocide and supporting justice for all is not a crime.

And here an impressively moustachioed staff member displays a census counting machine in the French census office in Paris in 1911 (Gallica, BnF) 🗃️

If there only was a word for a governing system in which one set of laws applied to people of a specific race, and a completely different and much harsher set of laws applied to those of another race... www.cbc.ca/news/world/i...

Further scenes at the French census office in Paris in 1911: A line of women workers process piles of census forms (Gallica, BnF) 🗃️

Further scenes at the French census office in Paris in 1911: A line of women workers process piles of census forms (Gallica, BnF) 🗃️

The ambiguous intimacy of the census: women workers sort through forms in the French census office in Paris in 1911 (Gallica, BnF) 🗃️

Linking the march across the bridge to the massacre is disgusting and everyone doing so should be deeply ashamed of their giving tacit support for genocide www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Paris is a city haunted by a ghost in chinos and fawn loafers, so says Google Maps

“Ahmed Al Ahmed. He saved my life & my 4yr old” “I can only say thank you to that Muslim brother” This is what the media should show. Messages of unity & hope from survivors. Despite that it’s not the answer this Sky News journo was seeking. #auspol #Bondi

Following the horrific antisemitic attack at Bondi supporters of peace & rights for all in Israel Palestine are being slurred as supporters of terrorist atrocity. In a democracy peaceful protest is essential but NSW Premier Minns wants more powers to ban it. Write urgently to MPs using this template

The ambiguous intimacy of the census: women workers sort through forms in the French census office in Paris in 1911 (Gallica, BnF) 🗃️

Women workers pore over pages and pages of people's responses in the French census office in Paris in 1911 (Gallica, BnF) 🗃️

The History department at the University of Toronto is searching in the field of Ukrainian history. networks.h-net.org/group/discus...

"[T]he horror of the Bondi killings [is] facilitat[ing] a renewed ideological campaign against Gaza solidarity by those who always hated the anti-genocide movement." – Jeff Sparrow

It's never not a good time to gaze at a Caspar David Friedrich Caspar David Friedrich, 'Giant Mountains (Riesengebirge) / Before sunrise in the mountains,' c.1830 (oil on canvas, Alte Nationalgalerie)

'"What Ahmed did is a source of pride for us, for Arabs, for Islam, and for Muslims, given that he performed a heroic act that saved a number of lives regardless of knowing if they were Christians or Muslims or otherwise," Ahmed Al Ahmed's uncle Mohammad Al Ahmed said.'

Neither MUP nor the Melbourne University council even tried to save Meanjin. In fact they chose *not* to pursue offers to help save it. They also actively ignored the advice of the independent review they commissioned into Meanjin's sustainability. They just shut it.

"After the Bondi massacre, we don’t have the luxury to grieve silently" www.972mag.com/bondi-massac...

If you happen to be looking for ways to spend $6.5 million AUD, well look no further: this grand Georgian Revival sandstone house sitting on almost 83 hectares of land and nestled in the Blue Mountains is up for sale. It also comes complete with – wait for it – its own private Turkish bathhouse.

Important call-out for O type blood donors. Make an appointment if you can: my.donateblood.com.au/app/utils/lo...

Still got a fight ahead! The change proposal will be ‘refined’ which I take to mean ‘rushed through piecemeaL’. Keep an eye on this story!

Sad to see one of the best bookshops in Paris – the Point du Jour in the Latin Quarter – is closing its doors after 42 years on the rue Gay-Lussac. There'll be no more tottering towers of excellent books. Massive clearance sale this weekend.

A photomicrographic study of paper fibres – taken at Attisholz paper mill, Switzerland, in 1943 (ETH Library Zurich) 🗃️

Congratulations and solidarity to staff on strike today and tmrw at Berkelouw and Harry Hartog bookshops. Excellent turnout at the Leichhardt store today for the protest organised by RAFFWU demanding fair pay. Good bookshops run on dedicated staff not passion alone. Staff deserve decent conditions.

Good news: Melbourne's State Library of Victoria is saved from the managerial wrecking ball (for now). Cutting staff is not the way to “strengthen [the Library's] services in response to surging demand and to better manage the new and different ways that people are engaging with the library.”

On the road with the Tasmanian State Library bookmobile, 1960 (Libraries Tasmania) 🗃️

A little boy feeds a squirrel in London's Regents Park in 1911 🐿️(Bibliothèque nationale de France) 🗃️

A little boy feeds a squirrel in London's Regents Park in 1911 🐿️(Bibliothèque nationale de France) 🗃️

This is the earliest known representation of the potato plant in Western and Central Europe. Drawn in 1587 by artist unknown. Held in the Plantin-Moretus Museum in Antwerp. You're welcome.

Gadigal/Sydney based authors & readers, support the Berkelouw/Harry Hartog bookshop workers strike this weekend! Image via RAFFWU

This is the earliest known representation of the potato plant in Western and Central Europe. Drawn in 1587 by artist unknown. Held in the Plantin-Moretus Museum in Antwerp. You're welcome.

Incredible the difference I'm observing mere hours after the child social media ban. Four boys on my street started a journey from their treehouse to find the body of a missing kid in the wilderness. Along the way, they're learning about themselves, & the meaning of friendship. Great to see

In the nineteenth century, British officials became obsessed with collecting and codifying 'secret languages' across northern India. In our latest article, Vipin Krishna explores how linguistics became a tool for classification, surveillance, and control.

'The overt cancelation and silencing of esteemed Arab-Australian women ...points towards a pattern of institutional racism at Macquarie University. We demand full transparency ... and call on the University to reinstate Dr Bayeh immediately.' www.sweatshop.ws/news-1/solid...

"BEWA R of DOG" Ward’s Lane in Melbourne's Fitzroy, c.1935 Photo taken by F. Oswald Barnett (State Library of Victoria)

This description from a 1966 Le Monde article covering President de Gaulle's visit to New Caledonia: "Everyone here agrees that General de Gaulle drew far fewer people [this time] than during his 1956 visit, and infinitely fewer than the Santa Claus paraded every year in the city streets". 🤣

This tiny star (only a few centimetres long) made of folded paper – a rare example of paperfolding from 17th-century England, found in the late 1980s beneath the floorboards of a boarding school for girls in London's Hackney (photograph by George Eksts/National Trust Images)

Terrible news on the grapevine today that after their brutal "spill and fill" exercise, Macquarie University has announced which academic staff members no longer have a position. Devastating for the people who've lost their jobs. Dreadful for those who've been spared (for now). Awful for everyone 💔

An extravagant set of late 16th-century French pruning tools for an ostentatious gardener. Crafted in Moulins c.1575, the set consists of a pruner, three specialised knives, a saw, and secateurs. Made of steel, with gilding and handles in shimmering mother-of-pearl (The Met)

A portable dining set for your late 17th- or 18th-century traveller. Consists of a knife, fork, spoon, and – most importantly – a corkscrew, all the items come apart to fit neatly into the compact case. Made by artisan unknown in either France or Italy (The Met)

A portable dining set for your late 17th- or 18th-century traveller. Consists of a knife, fork, spoon, and – most importantly – a corkscrew, all the items come apart to fit neatly into the compact case. Made by artisan unknown in either France or Italy (The Met)

Brass gong with wooden striker (State Library of Victoria) Every day from the 1850s to the mid-1990s a librarian at Melbourne's State Library of Victoria would circle the reading room, striking this brass gong to mark closing time. In the 1990s the gong was replaced by a pre-recorded announcement.