Thank you for following this nascent #PublicHistorian as I learned to use #Bluesky for what I love doing: telling a good story.

The #HeistHistories we continue to share shape our understanding of ourselves and our relationship with institutions of power.

📷: @claireul2025.bsky.social
#HI6171

Hi, I'm @claireul2025.bsky.social, a Paris-based tour guide and part-time UL Public History MA student.

Yesterday we got TIARA-BLE news from the #Louvre.

Inspired by the headlines, let’s look at the greatest #HeistHistories during my week-long student takeover #HI6171 📸: Louvre

Do you remember where you were when you heard about the #NorthernBankHeist? Tell me about it 👇#HI6171 #Heist #Ireland #PublicHistory #HeistHistories📷: Freepik.com

And the FBI continues to hunt for leads 35 years later. Let's hope French officials are more successful at solving the #LouvreHeist.
📷: FBI
#HeistHistories #PublicHistory #Heist #Rembrant #FBI

The two households targeted belonged to Kevin, a SR. manager at the Northern Bank, and Chris, a long-time employee who oversaw the cash center, that week a place where banknote counting machines whirled furiously trying to keep apace with Belfastian Christmas spirit. TBC👇#HI6171 #HeistHistories

Today let's explore the #HeistHistories surrounding the 1911 theft of the #MonaLisa. For anyone who's visited the #Louvre and joined the Mona mosh pit, it's hard to believe she was once unpopular, and that it was the very act of being stolen that transformed her into a pop culture icon. TBC 👇#HI6171

The men weren’t police officers. Within moments, they overpower the guards, binding them with duct tape and locking them in the basement.

The #Heist-ers move toward the Dutch Room… they know exactly what they’re after. The Rembrandt paintings 🎨🧑‍🎨

TBC👇 #HI6171 #HeistHistories

#LouvreHeist #HeistHistories

Vincenzo hid Mona in his tiny Paris apartment for 2 years. Though questioned, he was never a main suspect. As the investigation stalled, media coverage exploded. Mona-themed films rolled out, headlines multiplied, and just like that, she became a pop culture icon. 👇 #HI6171 #HeistHistories 📷: IMBD

At the invitation of King Francis I, DaVinci (then 64) packed up his worldly belonging, including 3 paintings & his notebooks and retired to France. After Davinci’s death Francis I acquired the paintings and Mona was hung in the royal privy of Fontainebleau. TBC👇 #HeistHistories #HI6171 📷:Britannica