“Enough with the emails, dad” she says with her highly effective side-eye. “It’s time for my walk”. Yes, Your Royal Houndness.
Daniel Woolf 🇨🇦
@woolf-atthedoor.bsky.social
History professor & Principal Emeritus, Queen's University. Interests include historiography/theory, and early modern Britain. Also woolfd1958 on 'Threads'. Dog servant to Layla and occasional practitioner of several hobbies; part time radio show host.
I'm pleased to announce that @universitypress.cambridge.org has just published Antoon De Baets' Element "Censorship of History", no. 38 in the Elements in Historical Theory and Practice series. Downloadable free till Aug. 19. www.cambridge.org/core/element...
Censorship of History
Cambridge Core - Global History - Censorship of History
cambridge.org
Today on my last new @cfrcradio.bsky.social Dark Glasses before I take my usual August break till Labour Day, we go pop via jazz interpretations of rock standards: featured artists include Deborah Silver, Blair Crimmins, Karen Souza, Sarah Menescal, Olivia Keast, and Al Di Meola.
Born OTD 100 years ago, Canadian bassist Charlie Biddle, d. 2003. Born in US, after WW2 he become one of many black musicians who found a home in Canada, moving to Montreal and staying there for the rest of his long career. /2
Today on the first half of @cfrcradio.bsky.social Dark Glasses we mark the recent sad passing of 3 jazz artists; drummer Rodney Holmes, aged 59; Plas Johnson 94, the saxophonist best known for the sax line and soloing on Mancini's theme from the Pink Panther; /2
Born OTD 100 years ago, actor/acting coach James Best (b. Jewel Franklin Guy), d 2015. Widely used character actor in film and tv, his most famous role was Sheriff Coltrane in The Dukes of Hazzard. As a coach his pupils included Quentin Tarantino and Lindsay Wagner.
Congratulations to @marnieh-w.bsky.social on publication of her "History and Artificial Intelligence", title no. 37 in the @universitypress.cambridge.org series Elements in Historical Theory and Practice. Available for free download till August 6! www.cambridge.org/core/element...
History and Artificial Intelligence
Cambridge Core - Global History - History and Artificial Intelligence
cambridge.org
Also born OTD 100 years ago, the Canadian director of one of Paul Burke's films, The Thomas Crown Affair, Norman Jewison. Where to begin with all his major releases across many genres, from Jesus Christ Superstar to Rollerball to In the Heat of the Night. 1/2
Daniel Woolf 🇨🇦@woolf-atthedoor.bsky.social · 2w agoBorn OTD 100 years ago, TV and occasional movie actor Paul Burke (d 2009). Notable roles in The Thomas Crown Affair and Valley of the Dolls and later on TV's Dynasty. Best known for 60s series Twelve O'Clock High and Naked City (dvd set of the latter has been my treadmill-telly for several years).
A thoughtful and illuminating thread from our colleague @adamchapman.bsky.social
Victoria County History@vch-home.bsky.social · 3w agoYou might be wondering how this decline in the number of people entering academic disciplines in the humanities affects something like a project devoted to researching, writing, and publishing histories of place (or local histories)? These early career researchers are essential to our work. 🗃️ 1/5
Born OTD 100 years ago, TV and occasional movie actor Paul Burke (d 2009). Notable roles in The Thomas Crown Affair and Valley of the Dolls and later on TV's Dynasty. Best known for 60s series Twelve O'Clock High and Naked City (dvd set of the latter has been my treadmill-telly for several years).
Born OTD 100 years ago: British actress Patricia Cutts. Assorted film and TV roles through 50s and into early 70s include The Tingler (1959) and a notable uncredited bit with one line in North by Northwest (also 1959), below. D. 1974 following 2 final appearances on TV's Coronation Street.
On today's @cfrcradio.bsky.social Dark Glasses at 2EDT: new or very recent releases, nearly all Canadian from @briaskonberg.bsky.social,the Ostara Project,Molly Johnson,Alexis Martin,Peter Hum, and the James McGowan Ensemble;plus England's Tara Clerkin Trio and Italy's Flavio Zanuttini. Tune in!
12 PhD positions are available within the DFG Research Training Group ‘Reconciliation and its Equivalents in a Transcultural Comparison’ @unibonn.bsky.social. Projects about reconciliation in the ancient world are very welcome! More info here www.reconciliation.uni-bonn.de/en and job ad below.
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Thank you. Infinitely preferable to what’s on the actual tv. (Though it reminds me my dog has never had the slightest interest in sticks, sadly).
Margot Finn@eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 2w agoAlternative half-time show.
Ah, the Norrington Room: where high-priced academic books go for the "remaindering" of their lives--and are adopted by penurious but grateful early 1980s DPhil candidates such as yours truly. I hope it still offers such bargains.
Philippe Prudent@phprudent.bsky.social · 3w agoLe Paradis sur terre. Also known as Blackwell's, Oxford (the Norrington Room, un lieu absolument extraordinaire).
Send has been pushed on the final final version of MS for my new (very short) book; next stop, copy-editing proofs etc. Happy to have it off my plate and on to theirs for a few weeks. Time now for a short staycation before the August pre-term ramp-up.
Born OTD 100 years ago, craggy faced character actor Harry Dean Stanton (d 2017), a veteran of hundreds of tv and film roles including Paris Texas, the Green Mile, and the Last Temptation of Christ; among the several Nostromo crew victims of the "Alien" first encountered in 1979.
Congratulations to Herman Paul (Leiden) on the publication of his Cambridge Element, "History of the Humanities", no. 36 in the series Historical Theory and Practice! Free to download till July 27. www.cambridge.org/core/element...
History of the Humanities
Cambridge Core - Global History - History of the Humanities
cambridge.org
All aboard for today's @cfrcradio.bsky.social Dark Glasses; a multi-genre theme episode devoted to trains: station stops include Cassandra Wilson (covering the Monkees); Montreal Jazz Trio; Nikki Yanofsky, Claire Martin and of course 'Trane himself.
Born OTD 100 years ago, tall, deep voiced character actor Fred Gwynne. Best known to my generation as Officer Muldoon (Car 54 where are you?) and Frankenstein-character Herman Munster, he had some memorable cinematic roles including the judge in 1992's My Cousin Vinnie. d. 1993.
Fellow academics and non-fiction authors: beware the "Book Club Scam"--clever individuals or bots asking to use your book for a book club, getting you to say "sure happy to" and then asking for a registration fee while promising enormous sales of your tome. 1/2
Today on @cfrcradio.bsky.social Dark Glasses: a tribute to the late South African pianist Abdullah Ibrahim; we revisit Dubliner Christine Tobin's jazz rendition of W.B. Yeats; Cassandra Wilson interprets The Band; plus Diana Krall, Mike Murley, Kate Wyatt, and Béla Fleck and the Flecktones. Tune in!
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My new favourite late 17th-century name: the Williamite admiral Sir Cloudesley Shovell (1650-1707; drowned with his fleet in the Scilly naval disaster). Almost as good a name as Sir Not-Appearing-in-this-Film.
Serious thunderstorm and tornado watch here in Stone Mills with power outage. My poor furry girl is vibrating like a paint can mixer next to me on the sofa. And no, weighted blankets don’t help her.
Today on @cfrcradio.bsky.social Dark Glasses we mark Canada Day a couple of days early with an all-Canadian show: featured artists include Anna Webber, Alison Young, Alison Pangman, @lailabiali.bsky.social (piano only no vocals)...2,
