Neil M Kennedy
@nmkennedy.bsky.social
Historian and archaeologist of the early modern Atlantic World, specializing in Bermuda, slavery and the slave trade, maritime history, maritime emancipation, Caribbean history, sensory history. Dept of History, Memorial University, Newfoundland.
Anyone near St Luke's Church, at Haslar Hospital, Gosport, Hampshire? Wall tablet there to an RN officer I'm interested in. The text is on the Maritime Monuments Database, which is great, but without a photo of the tablet. Have emailed the Haslar society, but just in case... #MaritimeHistory
Has anyone seen Anglican officials sign letters with first name and then the place of their office? As in, John Nova Scotia, for Bishop John Inglis. Was it common practice or a limited novelty of early 19thC? #EarlyModern
Do listen to this masterful exposition of the links between trans-Atlantic slavery and Australian settler colonisation from the brilliant & meticulous Zoe Laidlaw (working with @janelydon.bsky.social) www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
How British slave money flowed to colonial Australia - ABC listen
In 1833, slavery in the British Empire was abolished, but not without a massive compensation scheme paid out to slave owners. Some of that money flowed to colonial Australia. Two-thirds of Australia's...
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"Children sell for little." The horrendous arithmetic of the imperial archive. A grim private letter from the governor of Bermuda to the Colonial Office, 1826.
Sitting reading in my living room, I am so pleased with the way these arches play together in the light. I added them to dull squared trim-framed openings in last year’s kitchen renovation to suit the 1954 age of the house and those on the street that haven’t been altered. @brunotonelli.bsky.social
Turned it off rather than see that idiots face but I hope the Spanish team do the right thing and refuse to shake a rapist’s hand.
Declan Rice auditioning for lead role in Tom Cruise biopic
Filling out seemingly endless government forms for my public talk in Bermuda next month. This one from Immigration has the event info and includes a section for Stage Name. Ok, what shall it be folks? Sebastian Weetabix? DJ Scissorkicks? Neddy Seagoon?
Filling out seemingly endless government forms for my public talk in Bermuda next month. This one from Immigration has the event info and includes a section for Stage Name. Ok, what shall it be folks? Sebastian Weetabix? DJ Scissorkicks? Neddy Seagoon?
lol, someone butchered the trail sign on the Rennie’s River walk behind my house. Good job! #Anti-AI
Let it be known forthwith that Dr Murphy is the very best! Documents now in hand, time to see what was what with some bad business indeed....
Elaine Murphy@plymprivateer.bsky.social · 3w agoNo bother - it may not be tomorrow but I’m there for a few days so fire the reference over
He lived a full life for sure, vast amount of field work on some truly wild coasts, hands scarred, utterly committed to conservation. Top 2% of world scientists Stanford list. Was on PhD comp years ago with Bill, the sharpest mind and kindest spirit. See you on the hiking trails of the soul, Bill.
World-renowned seabird biologist Bill Montevecchi has died | CBC News
Seabird biology and Memorial University professor emeritus Bill Montevecchi died over the weekend.
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Anyone working at the National Archives UK this week able to take a photo of a single page for me?!?! One of those things the significance of which wasn't clear at the time.
In this new blog I show how Paul Marshall (GB News, The Spectator, UnHerd) and Michael Gove are frustrated by @willdalrymple.bsky.social’s erudite & rival influence on the public’s historical understanding. Also, how the British Empire is *really* taught in schools: alanlester.co.uk/blog/teachin...
Teaching the British Empire: Experts Versus The Spectator
Alan Lester The Spectator’s owner Paul Marshall and its editor Michael Gove are afraid of William Dalrymple. His sequence of books on colonial India that have sold millions, his Empire podcast with…
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Honoured to be giving annual Packwood-Robinson talk for Bermuda’s Ministry of Culture this August. Named for two Black Bermudian educators who in the ‘70s, w Nellie Musson, began to write Bermuda’s history from below. Packwood asked simply: if slavery here was benign why were there so many runaways?
Anyone have access to the Antigua Free Press newspaper for around 1826-28 or so? I have a reference to the title of an article, but no specific date (other than that it must be before Dec 1828).
Now, I don’t know but I been told It’s hard to run with the weight of gold. Other hand, I’ve heard it said That it’s just as hard with the weight of lead. — Courtney Barnett
@brettrushforth.bsky.social Brett, you may not have seen yet this new piece "Slavery in New France: Resistance and Enslavement of Southern Labrador Inuit" in June issue of Acadiensis 54:2. The numbers and traces are small of course, but compelling. #SlaveryArchive
Now, I don’t know but I been told It’s hard to run with the weight of gold. Other hand, I’ve heard it said That it’s just as hard with the weight of lead. — Courtney Barnett
New article has just been published OA @womenshistoryrev.bsky.social ! Lots of archival work in here tracing the the women who ran “Indian houses” in #17thc London. Including one woman who may have helped plot the Glorious Revolution!! #earlymodern www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
It's World Marine Aids to Navigation Day on the 1st July, so here's a quick thread on some aids to navigation. Now the first and most obvious aid to navigation is dry land. Dry land - pay attention at the back - is strongly suggestive that you can't go sailing here.
Canada Day update from front garden at home. Too hot here in the Kawarthas, Ontario, to go outside. #CatsofBluesky
Canada Day update from front garden at home. Too hot here in the Kawarthas, Ontario, to go outside. #CatsofBluesky
In Ontario for week to help my mother out, Spousal Unit texts asking for photo of my drivers licence, two hours later my son texts telling me how much he likes the new hybrid car they traded in for, asking me if I like the colour. Am I chopped liver? What about the joint in joint bank accounts?!
