The European “discovery” of the beach is a reminder that human ideas about nature have changed over time — with real consequences for the environment and the world. #envhist #seaside #tourism #senseofplace www.smithsonianmag.com/history/inve...

Can anyone help - I’m trying to find a publication I used in a class I taught 15 years ago (alas, younger me was not good at filing). It was a micro history of a village, I think in East Anglia. There was an archival reference to rice or rice pudding that revealed a global network of trade.

Don’t know who made this but thank you

#skystorians - I’m reading an 18th-century Cornish account book and keep coming across the word ‘dollap’. From context it is being used as a unit of measurement, eg ‘dollap of tea’. Has anyone else come across this or knows what it means?

“the dreadnought behind the dazzle” 🧐

Well, this is deeply worrying, and I can feel the same sentiment creeping in over here. Not so much state-sanctioned censorship, but self-censorship based on perceived hypothetical backlash.

Doing some Cornish smuggling research today and I’ve come across a smuggler on the (in)famous ‘Happy-go-Lucky’ ship went by the alias ‘the Doctor’…just saying 🙄

Footnote your work, people!! After spending a frustrating afternoon trying to verify a seemingly throwaway comment, footnote-your-work!

I've just remembered that I've pre-ordered a book, but I've no recollection of what it is or when it's being published. And thus begins an exciting game of waiting for what I hope will be a happy surprise. The suspense!

CfP for maritimebritain.org Maritime Britain Project c.1550-1750 (led by Prof Craig Lambert, University of Southampton) end of project conference is live. See poster below & register your interest on Eventbrite in attending and/or giving a paper: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/maritime-b... #maritimehistory

Review: Jenny R. Lee on 'Empire, Incorporated: The Corporations That Built British Colonialism', by Philip J. Stern. Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2025.04.004 (Vol. 88) 25/31

(•_•) <) )╯Publique fundinge / \ \(•_•) ( (> of the artes and humanityes / \ (•_•) <) )> doth benefit everyone! / \

Not a bad start to the day.

There is a special place in hell reserved for people who take video calls in cafes.

I wrote a book review for the @jofhistgeog.bsky.social.

#TypicalHistorian. So typical that the BBC couldn’t get my job title, title, or even my surname correct.

Submitted an article, feeling (temporarily) invincible.

I’m still waiting for an additional series of ‘Downton Abbey’ set in the present day, where the Abbey is owned by the National Trust. The library will be transformed into a cafe and there will be backlash from the volunteers about an exhibition focussing on the famous Hollywood star, Thomas Barrow.

Does anyone else get ‘Committee of Public Safety’ feelings from the ‘Department of Government Efficiency’? An innocuous-sounding title, but in reality anything but.

'Stop the boats' - a term former British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak revived in 2023 in an attempt to signal control of the border. Rob Waters traces the history behind the image and rhetoric of the 'small boat', and their social and political effects in Britain: www.historyworkshop....

Love tokens made from coins rubbed smooth were given to loved ones when sailors went to sea in the 18th & 19th centuries. This token features the initials RDC and BC and the name of the ship, the HMS Ville de Paris, which set sail in 1795.🧵 (1/3) #MaritimeHistory #18thC #19thC #NavalHistory 🗃️ 📜

Let's focus on #earlymodern paper. Today in the spotlight: #cartography and its connection to #paperhistory: "De geograaf" in the seventeenth-century painting by Johannes #Vermeer was a paper using man surrounded by paper. A 🧵 for #skystorians

Lobster pot tree @ maritime museum.

🌊 SURF! 100 years of Waveriding in Cornwall is the next major exhibition at @TheNMMC opening 28 Mar 2025🏄From 1920s pioneers to today's champions, discover how our coastline shaped a culture & a global movement #SURF! #SurfCornwall #NMMC #Cornwall nmmc.co.uk/surf

Writing tip #3: At the beginning of every writing project, I survey the art surrounding the topic and select two or three images that say something profound that I would like to try to capture in my writing. I look at the images ever after for insight and inspiration.

Word of the Day is ‘gwenders’, from old Cornish dialect: a disagreeable tingling in the extremities (or no sensation at all) due to extreme cold.

Lighthouses and general coast lights of the British Isles, Woolfield H. F. Hardinge, 1874. src: bostonraremaps.com/inventory/sp...

Hello #Museums people! Welcome to Bluesky. The starter pack you need is here - a list of UK museum folk. I've done my best to keep up with requests but please let me know if you or anyone you know has arrived and wants to be added. 60-ish slots left so there is room! go.bsky.app/PYNaoQr

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