The University of Prince Edward Island is hiring a historian in Atlantic Canadian history! Details below… www.upei.ca/hr/competiti...

Sometimes notes in your archival file are written on interesting scrap paper.

A heaven that accepts and forgives victims of suicides does not exist, says Baywatch, in an episode whose B-plot confirms the existence of mermaids.

Paying homage to the crinoline, Dior’s 1954 collections included this emerald taffeta, a flourish of big skirt and form fitting bodice for Saturday shenanigans #NewfieldsToday #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡

Some more commensal brittle stars (Ophiothela mirabilis) on a purple octocoral (Leptogorgia rigida). Playa Balandra, La Paz, Baja California. 🦀🦑 #baja #tidepool #echinoderm

"Eighty-two years after his execution by the Gestapo on June 16, 1944, the Jewish historian and resistance fighter Marc Bloch will be inducted into the Pantheon on June 23... His family requested that 'the far right, in all its forms, be excluded from any participation in the ceremony.'"

All going well w winter weather, etc., next week I'll be presenting new research at the Huntington: some material #maritimehistory that inverts our view of European-Asian trade. If you'd like to attend in person on Feb. 6, rsvp by tomorrow! calendar.usc.edu/event/emsi-e... #18c

Male historians think logistics are gay was the thesis of my phd.

Who ain’t a slave? Tell me that.

are they not monsters?

Someone convince him he should be king of Mars so we can send him into space.

Oh man oh jeez

There are some historical events where I recall the feeling of learning about them, the gut-punch of “how could I not know this?” MOVE, Tulsa, Cap Arcona … I remember reading about Khmer Rouge for the first time in an Air Canada in-flight magazine. But MOVE was the most uncanny and so revealing.

Hey! Guess what? The CFP for the SWAAN Workshop about women's involvement in maritime life, hosted by the bangarang Maritime History Archive in lovely St. John's, Newfoundland is open until January 31st! You've got time! Submit! And Please Circulate this post!🙏 www.swaan.org/workshop

Well, get out a lettuce: the spectacle of a woman’s death and then tanking the economy is definitely some Liz Truss energy.

It’s like living in a world surrounded by thousands of idiot Isildurs refusing to chuck the ring into Mordor.

#OTD 10/01/2025 #RememberRCN -HMCS MARGARET BROOKE departs Halifax on a scientific expedition to Antarctica. This is the first RCN expedition to the South Pole and will be the furthest south any RCN ship has travelled. (RCN Photo)

Well he is driving Droits de l’Homme into the rocks.

a few thoughts youtu.be/lERS4kJIQR8

all this is both foolish and unnecessary

I need one of those peanut hankies !

Drop him into the rankor pit Jabba.

Nobody understands the meaning of “Gilded Age” even though they only need to know one of the two words means “looks-like-gold” (derogatory).

Crew Agreement Advent Calendar, Day 6: "Atting" I said I would try to get a little more into this, but we would probably be dissatisfied with the answers, and what can I say, I delivered on this promise of dissatisfaction. The situation remains weird, but that's about it. #crewagadvent25

When I was a kid a cow on our farm hot-wired a tractor and let the whole barn loose when it crashed through a gate, so yeah. I agree. Cow tools.

cow tools like and share if u agree

In St. John's? Come to our event! ISER Inventories of Life: Material Culture and Life, Death, and Medicine at Sea, death inventories from merchant vessels, 1860-1955! Get a preview of the findings and a personalized tour of the documents from the students who did the research! #researchweek2025

Starting my yearly relisten to You’re Wrong About’s unfinished masterpiece on the OJ Simpson Trial.

Wavy Navy! Cnd naval reservists get wavy cuff embroidery instead of straight lines. I have always been delighted by this moniker.

A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death. Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written." Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating. 🧪🧬🧫

Unidentified camouflaged ship, picture taken from HMCS MAYFLOWER in 1944, possibly around Normandy invasion. If you can identify this ship, please leave a comment. @RLitwiller #RCNavy Photo Collection. See MORE zurl.co/lBEmW

Once again, @yaelrice.bsky.social and I published this article in 2020 so that no one ever has to debunk this vile nonsense point-by-point ever again. As we write (see the next post in this thread)... hyperallergic.com/604897/how-s...

Tremendous achievement by Kara Walker in dismantling and reconstructing the Charlottesville monument to Stonewall Jackson. Its howling self-destructive demise is on full view at The Brick in Los Angeles. Now titled “Unmanned Drone” (2025)

Look I know what he’s talking about but damn political cartoonists better make the most of “steam-powered catapults”.

I saw a fucking BREADFRUIT TREE today! Also VANILLA!!

Just make everyone in NYC cops already, this is taking forever.

Two unidentified crew members from HMCS TRENTONIAN during the North Atlantic crossing in April 1944. It is still cold on the open ocean as there are icicles hanging from the kisby ring. @RLitwiller #RCNavy Photo Collection. See MORE zurl.co/lBEmW

Piecework is how military clothing and uniforms were made 200yo and there is a straight line between that labour and this. Done by women, for next to nothing, this work built modern fashion, if not the modern world.

British colonial officials destroyed countless files before decolonisation. But one colony has been neglected by the literature: Hong Kong. My latest paper in @jich.bsky.social examines the past, present and future of Hong Kong colonial government migrated archives: doi.org/10.1080/0308...

Lord embarrassed for us that our lawmakers had to be in the room with Trump for his weekly “I’m not dead” appearance.

Buttered mashed potatoes with salt and pep, after you haven’t had them in a long time, are the most delicious thing ever. So perfect. So humble.

Having worked on clothing in the navy I can say that “logistics gay” is a very common modern sentiment from the public to academic historians.

#OTD 1/10/1941 #RememberRCN -Appropriately named, Sail Training schooner HMCS ATTABOY is commissioned into the RCN. The owner, Lt. Thomas Fuller, RCNVR (AKA -The Pirate of the Adriatic for his exploits commanding MGB's) of Ottawa loaned the 38 ft schooner to train RCNVR sailors.

The problem with switching to flannel sheets season is that now I never want to get out of bed even more than usual.

"Slavery combined with cheap fish made for cheap labour, which in turn made for cheap sugar. Some of this sugar returned to the Northeast and became rum in New England distilleries." - Sandy Hunter niche-canada.org/2023/01/31/c... #envhist #coastalhistory #labourhistory

Got to look at 1950s sailor inventories today because apparently the RGSS never stopped requiring them! We saw records for deceased Indonesian passengers going to the Hajj and my first sailor killed by motor vehicle, hit by a lorry in Genoa while on leave.

Please help spread the word about our CFP? Id love to get a wide variety of posts for this series

Brazil mostly booked! Excited to use the only Portuguese word I know, "baccalieu!"

We are still open for participants in this year's workshops! You don't have to be a historian to be involved or consider yourself a maritime historian.

I looked for news about the rain and VOCM provided.