And I'LL weave 13 miles of rope And I'LL weave 14 miles more free Just to BE the man who wove authentic ROPE for Captain Jack Aubrey

Michael Stahlke@michaelstahlke.bsky.social · 4d ago

There were 27 miles of rope used for rigging in Master & Commander. Modern rope naturally coils in the opposite direction of rope made during the Napoleonic wars. So the production paid a shop to make period accurate cordage.

The Iceman Cometh For Tax Purposes

Grant@syncingsinking.bsky.social · 2w ago

In the spirit of the phrase "resident alien for tax purposes" and me thinking Resident Alien sounds like a movie, add "for tax purposes" to the end of a movie title The Spy Who Loved Me For Tax Purposes

📢 Terror Camp LIVE! is back for Shackleton Autumn School 2026! This Friday October 16th, 3.30pm - 5pm, we’ll be in Ireland to kick off the conference weekend with an afternoon of back-to-back polar presentations ❄️

Pelmet by Moonlight

Dreadnought Holiday@dreadships.bsky.social · 2w ago

Make a war film rubbish. The Heroes of Telemarketing

consultant roughly twice my age, looking at my "benign|not benign" test results: "I had a partner with your first name once"

Heather Hill@rollin-academic.bsky.social · 3mo ago

A question from Reddit that I'll answer here: "What's the most unhinged thing a doctor has said to you with a straight face?"

I hear it's bandwagon game time! Pick a number you're curious about

Yip Yip Mo 🎃📚@moplayspoke.bsky.social · 3mo ago

1 like = 1 book question 📚💙

Meet Tigernos, one of Britain’s earliest named sailors! ⚓️ A Briton and Roman fleet veteran, his story is recorded on the bronze Lanchester Diploma issued by Antoninus Pius in AD 150. It grants him honourable discharge from the Classis Germanica and Roman citizenship. #EpigraphyTuesday #Archaeology

#DoesSheLoveBirds

Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 3mo ago

WOW, new finds from the Ice Age! Two absolutely stunning Ice Age figurines from the Swabian Jura were found, dating back around 40,000 years. The tiny carvings, about the size of a thumbnail, depict two birds, rendered with remarkable attention to detail. Snow grouse, buzzard, or...🧵1/2

*standing up on the plane* I wish either my father or my mother, or indeed both of them, as they were in duty both equally bound to it, had minded what they were about when they begot me; had they duly consider’d how much depended upon what they were then doing; — that not only the production of a r

J.K. Spookin' 🎃@jkrockin.bsky.social · 3mo ago

*standing up on the plane* Call me Ishmael. Some years ago— never mind how long precisely— having little or no money in my purse, and nothing particular to interest me on shore, I thought I would sail about a little and see the watery part of the world. It is a way I have of driving off the spleen a

Excited that my article on collecting polar exploration ephemera is live, part of the special issue “Crossings in Polar Art History” for the journal Art History. Thanks to issue editors @issygapp.bsky.social and Mark Cheetham and everyone who spoke to me for this piece, incl. @tchotchke.bsky.social!

‘You will find it at the North Pole when you get there’: Travels in Polar Exploration Ephemera

Abstract. Throughout the long nineteenth century, dozens of exploratory expeditions embarked from Western Europe and European settler nations for the Arcti

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Some Melville-adjacent reading I recommend for @leviathanbookstore.bsky.social, including: The Morgesons, by Elizabeth Stoddard (the Elena Ferrante of the 1860s). This is a sexier, weirder, US Jane Eyre and is the best 19th century novel you’ve never heard of. bookshop.org/lists/recomm...

Recommended Reading: Melville and Beyond

Check out this list on Bookshop

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A floating research station resembling a giant aluminium igloo has set out from France to begin a long-term mission in the Arctic that will see it drift with the polar ice in the most hostile of environments u.afp.com/SrTD

Perhaps, even, a pausa de hidratajohn? (May the best team win and both survive)

Just received some wonderful minimalist design tips from Sir Barrow himself, who assures me that I'll be looking like a sickly bird in a shoebox in no time!

I wish I could tell you that I have consumed any other culture/thought about anything else in six months but I haven’t, and here’s a little bit about why. Thanks to @publicbooks.bsky.social and anyone who has allowed me to talk at them about HR and MD: www.publicbooks.org/heated-rival...

“Heated Rivalry” Is the “Moby-Dick” of Canadian Gay Hockey Shows - Public Books

The literary genre of contemporary MM romance realizes an imagined world that Melville was trying to write into being.

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#DoesSheLoveBirds

Andy Marshall@fotofacade.bsky.social · 4mo ago

One of my fave things in York Minster: a medieval wren stalking a spider. It reminds me that history isn't only kings and battles. Someone, centuries ago, found joy in the same things we still notice today. It's a reminder of how much we have in common over our differences.

Harry Goodsir eat your heart out

Zac Thompson@zacthompson.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Pictures from a friend of mine who works on a crab-fishing boat off the coast of Newfoundland. I love the nightmare crab door.

This is so relatable. A certain London institution could learn something here www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

TIL that from 1961 to 2009 there was a bowling alley in Antarctica (at McMurdo station) and it used penguin-themed pins.

Wusstet Ihr, dass Innu-Frauen schon vor Jahrhunderten Baskenmützen trugen? Über die jahrhunderte alten Beziehungen zwischen Basken, Inuit und Innu, über Caravellen und Kayaks. Schaut Euch das Video im Artikel an!!!

Global Maritime History@globalmarhist.bsky.social · 4mo ago

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What doesn't help in a heatwave? A/C discourse. What does help in a heatwave? Advice from airflow experts. If you want to cool your hot indoor European dwelling *to the extent possible without aircon*, this is the thread for you. Saved my bacon in 40+ in 2022, invaluable ever since.

Prof Cath Noakes@cathnoakes.bsky.social · last yr.

Warm nights and very hot days. Can be hard to stay cool especially in a city during a heatwave, but there’s some things you can do to help. 🧵1/

I updated my Franklin expedition genealogy starter spreadsheet with the recent identifications! docs.google.com/spreadsheets... I'm actually not sure if I've linked this here before? I've been trying to keep track of which members of the expedition people online have talked about researching.

Franklin Expedition Identification

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"We know that all of the dogs used in the 1857-59 McClintock Expedition to find the missing Franklin Expedition were acquired from Indigenous communities in the Arctic. They were mostly sourced from Greenland and parts of Northern Canada..." - Celina Lee niche-canada.org/2023/09/27/e...

Exploration and Exploitation: The Use of Dogs and Sledges in Early-Modern Arctic Expeditions

All of these animals served as tools, in order to directly benefit their human owners and their pursuits.

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The research paper about the identification of Harry Peglar is online now! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Last year I was able to assist in identifying 4 (FOUR?!?) members of the Franklin expedition! I'm the amateur genealogist who researched Bridgens, Young, Orren, and Peglar, and was able to find and contact living descendants of their families who agreed to do DNA tests!

Four more! Peglar, Bridgens, David Young, William Orren www.ctvnews.ca/kitchener/ar...

Four sailors from doomed Franklin expedition identified through DNA

Researchers at the University of Waterloo have identified the remains of four more crew members of Sir John Franklin’s ill-fated expedition to find the Northwest Passage.

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A new piece on sea ice, material agency in the Arctic and James Cook’s third voyage: www.bssi.org.uk/reetta-sippo...