Congratulations Karin! Really looking forward to your online book talk on Thursday at www.congregationallibrary.org/events/lineage

Tonight I am thinking of Reg Horsman. He taught me when I started grad school 43 years ago, and I was often his teaching assistant. Remembering many late nights, and many, many games of darts. RIP Reg. www.feerickfuneralhome.com/obituary/reg...

My story is just like your’s (and at the same universities🙂): a grant funding my undergraduate education, and then fellowships funding my graduate education in the USA. Nothing that I have achieved since then would have been possible without this support.

Basil plants went crazy this summer. No problem

You both look wonderful! Congratulations!

Variation on a Provençal Tomato Squash Gratin, with heritage and plum tomatoes, eggplant, zucchini, basil and thyme from the garden.

Somehow I had missed that Dame Cleo Laine had left us, at the grand age of 97. I met her at Winfield House in London, at an event honoring Dave Brubeck, and she was lovely. I was able to tell her that I had grown up listening to her music.

Cana Island, Door County, Wisconsin. Calm.

Always happy to be back in Door County. The Wisconsin land of 🍒

On a day when the world seems even crazier than usual, I hope people find a little peace and joy in the scenery I have been taking in. The Atlantic coast of County Kerry. 🇮🇪

I will miss many things and many people in Providence. This is near the top of the list…

Lovely afternoon tea to say goodbye to friends in Providence, in the beautiful Nightingale Brown house, where we have had offices.

Dessert at Al Forno in Providence this evening. Blissful.

When in Rhode Island…

An unexpected visitor to Brown President Paxson’s house this morning. File under unexpected sightings in Providence…

Always great to catch up with Peter Onuf, the Great Conceptualizer, and a lovely human being.

Absolutely wonderful closertovaneyck.kikirpa.be/ghentaltarpi...

Great lecture on the antebellum origins of American business ethics by @sethrockman.bsky.social

I really miss Bluebell Woods in Glasgow’s Pollok Park. What a lovely painting.

Just what I needed this morning. Thank you Annette!

Back in Burlington, VT, for the first time in decades. As beautiful as I remember.

Join us on Sat., 22 Feb. at the Charles River Museum (154 Moody St., Waltham) where @profbrucedorsey.bsky.social will accept the Peter J. Gomes Memorial Book Prize for *Murder in a Mill Town.* @manionjen.bsky.social will join him in conversation. Register: www.masshist.org/events/peter...

Wonderful event at Brown University bookstore. @sethrockman.bsky.social interviewing @theotherrbg.bsky.social about her book Dear Miss Perkins.

I highly recommend this excellent fellowship scheme: Brown 2026 at the John Nicholas Brown Center. apply.interfolio.com/159128

Our Spotlight on Research series continues with Tim Peacock. A Lecturer in History, Tim’s interests span nuclear history, space security, games and more. His work explores new ways to tackle societal challenges. Full video: youtu.be/crdAh-psR-o

I forgot to order vegetarian haggis for today…

This multi-year initiative years in the making, announced last January, just getting started. Read more on the website: brown2026democracy.brown.edu

A wonderful distraction from the world literally burning to the ground: page proofs for The Predatory Sea! 🗃️ Coming to bookstores (if those still exist) in September!

When I was a teenager on the far east coast of England, music on the radio (all BBC) was pretty dire. The pirate radio stations and their dj’s introduced me to so much of the music I still love. Few of them are left, and we just lost one of the greats. RIP Johnnie www.bbc.com/news/article...

Although recorded 4 years ago, it’s worth celebrating the New Year with this rendition of @UofGlasgow Choir 👇 A Happy 2025 when it comes!! Auld Lang Syne by Team UofG youtu.be/uQoZJCZYuFw?si… via @YouTube

Huzzah! Looks wonderful, and I look forward to reading this. I remember walking with you to the College of Arms when you were deep in the research. Well done!

A dreich day in Madison (my favorite Scots word, so onomatopoeic), but brightened by the beautiful and very loud Tundra swans on Lake Mendota.

Good to be home for the holidays. Peace and love.

An exciting postdoc opportunity at the JCB!

Listening to @sethrockman.bsky.social at the Rhode Island Historical Society. Great stuff!

Congratulations Nick, very well deserved!

How wonderful. One of my favourite pieces. Thank you for sharing.

Scholars and Their Kin: So happy to be in such fine company, with my essay, “The Diary of a Twelve-Year-Old Hostage.” Coming in February 2025. Thank you, Stéphane Gerson @sag111.bsky.social!

Thanks, Kelly. Enjoyed our conversation! Take a listen! @feministkelly.bsky.social

Dr. Cynthia Van Zandt -- brilliant early American historian, dear UNH colleague, and cherished friend -- passed away last week after a long struggle with ovarian cancer. Information about her memorial is available here: www.jvwoodfuneralhome.com/obituaries/C...

"My thesis supervisor Jürgen Habermas has told me recently he would not have succeeded in today's academia. He has never applied for a grant in his life and he writes long books" - Patrizia Nanz, President of the European University Institute, in a speech today

We have the letters he sent my grandmother from Italy, telling her how beautiful the country was, how lovely the people were, and how he wished he could share it with her. He kept the horrors he saw to himself, and spared the people he loved.

And remembering my other grandfather who was on the Anzio beachhead in WWII. The war changed him, and he died a young man when I was an infant. Remembering my grandfathers today, and all who served.

Remembering my grandfather today, who spent three years in the trenches, mainly at the Somme. He told us stories when we were kids, like the battle of the ice cream cones. We never had a clue what he really went through.

When you have to stock books by a politician who has lost all respect… Brilliant product placement by WH Smith in central London

Saturday afternoon, the view from Great Island, NH

Holiday weekend, recharging batteries on the tiny Great Island in New Hampshire. Just lovely.

Happy Birthday Mr President! Your moral compass inspires us. www.npr.org/sections/the...

Went to the Eustis estate in Milton to see Tripp Evans’ exhibit ‘the Importance of Being Furnished.’ Wonderful house, great exhibit!

Got back to Providence this evening, and enjoyed a lovely walk along the river. Looking forward to starting my year at the John Nicholas Brown Center for Advanced Study.