We have harvested 15 zucchini already! So, zucchini and goats cheese loaves, and a chocolate zucchini cake with cream cheese frosting. Tomorrow will be zucchini pizza (better than it sounds)
Simon Newman
@simonatmadison.bsky.social
Historian, gardener, cook (not necessarily in that order)
Have you heard of Lilian Redstone? She was one of the first women to make history her profession and helped establish the first county record offices in Suffolk, shaping how the county's history is kept and shared today. We're honouring her life and work with a range of events https://orlo.uk/1LVxg
Proud of @glasgow.ac.uk and delighted for the wonderful @deaconbluemusic.bsky.social I really wish I could have been there.
University of Glasgow@glasgow.ac.uk · last mo.We are proud to have awarded an honorary degree to Deacon Blue! The band are the first recipients of a collective honorary degree in our 575-year history. Congratulations to Ricky, Lorraine, Dougie, Lewis and Gregor. You are part of #TeamUofG! 💙 #UofGgrad26
Another morning in the kitchen, strawberry and rhubarb, and strawberry jam
Cherries from the garden, some dried and some as jam. A morning well spent!
Hello Bluesky! Very pleased to say this is in the world, either in this fetching hardback or available for open access digital download! @lynncabrams.bsky.social @sallytuckett.bsky.social @bloomsburyacademic.bsky.social
Congratulations Casey! Hard to think of anyone more deserving.
Casey Schmitt@csschmitt.bsky.social · 2mo agoTenured. 🗃️ There's a laundry list of people who helped this happen and I promise to carry forward their kindness, generosity, and intellectual spark.
Look what's here! Just in time to order for your fall classes! It's the affordable paperback version of *Plantation Goods* from @uchicagopress.bsky.social
If you are in Madison tomorrow, please come to our Freedom Seekers exhibition and lecture. The exhibition will be up in the lobby of the Wisconsin Historical Society for ten days. www.tickettailor.com/events/freed...
Reserve tickets – Freedom Seekers Symposium: Stories of Black Liberation in the American Revolutionary Era and Beyond – Wisconsin Historical Society
Freedom Seekers Symposium: Stories of Black Liberation in the American Revolutionary Era and Beyond – Wisconsin Historical Society, Thu Apr 23, 2026 - This event is free and open to the public! ...
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Hosting the appetizer course for our neighborhood progressive pot luck. Made polenta rounds, with artichoke spread, and then roasted carrots or roasted mushrooms or roasted mixed vegetables on them.
Back in North Berwick for the first time in eight years! We truly love this place
For us in the present, runaway advertisements offer windows into the lives of the enslaved. For 19th century abolitionists, these advertisements exposed the absurdity of human bondage. Check out @adamrothman.bsky.social excellent new article for the JAH: academic.oup.com/jah/article-...
Slip the Yoke and Change the Joke: How Abolitionists Used Runaway Slave Advertisements to Ridicule Slavery
Speaking to an abolitionist audience in New York City in May 1856, William Wells Brown read an advertisement sliced from the New Orleans Daily Picayune:
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Some days cooking and baking are the best therapy. Bread this morning, fisherman’s pie this evening.
Thinking of @kawulf.bsky.social’s new book. This single quilt block was made in 1915 by Emma Reinsertsen in Milwaukee, using pieces of her mother’s wedding dress (1845), those of her sisters (1866 and 1875), and from her own (1871). UW Madison, Ctr Design & Material Culture. Quilted genealogy!
Spring like weather in Madison, and Lake Mendota melting! Snow forecast later this week…
Very excited to have received my copy of the new book by @brookenewman.bsky.social Already deep into this timely, deeply researched and truly significant work.
How did fugitive lives in 17th-century London expose the metropolitan foundations of England’s emerging system of racial slavery? @simonatmadison.bsky.social @glasgow.ac.uk discusses: uolpress.co.uk/book/freedom... #History
45 years ago I left England for Milwaukee as a JYA student. 2 years later I returned to begin graduate school at UW Milwaukee. Today, in Milwaukee, I became a U.S. citizen. I want to participate in the defence of the republic and the ideals for which it stands. From today I do that as a citizen. 🇺🇸🏴
Congratulations Karin! Really looking forward to your online book talk on Thursday at www.congregationallibrary.org/events/lineage
Lineage | Congregational Library & Archives
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Karin Wulf@kawulf.bsky.social · 11mo agoThank you so, SO much to everyone who has recommended, read, and posted reviews of my book! And folks who have come to events! Sold out of 1st printing which is amazing (tho let's not get too excited this is an academic print run 😁), has now been reprinted and in process of restocking. Phew. 📚
Tonight I am thinking of Reg Horsman. He taught me when I started grad school 43 years ago, and I was often his teaching assistant. Remembering many late nights, and many, many games of darts. RIP Reg. www.feerickfuneralhome.com/obituary/reg...
Obituary for Reginald Horsman at Feerick Funeral Home
Reginald Horsman, a distinguished scholar and beloved husband, father and professor, passed away peacefully in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on August 20th, 2025, at the age of 93. He was surrounded by his lo...
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My story is just like your’s (and at the same universities🙂): a grant funding my undergraduate education, and then fellowships funding my graduate education in the USA. Nothing that I have achieved since then would have been possible without this support.
Cate Denial@cjdenial.bsky.social · 11mo agoSo I came to the US on a fellowship that enabled me to work as a TA and pay my tuition out of the 11K I earned per year. I have absolutely no idea how I stretched 11K to pay 5K of tuition *and* live on. But I did.
