Kristan Tetens
@tetens.bsky.social
Hat #1: Chartered strategic comms professional, UK higher education sector. Hat #2: PhD'd historian currently writing about my family's connections with the Danish West Indies, c. 1720-1900. Former Michiganian … ask me about Petoskey stones and Motown!
A complete digital version of The Naturalist’s Library (1833-43), William Jardine’s 40-volume book series on natural history, including restored versions of each of the 1300+ illustrations in the library. Wow. [kottke.org]
The Naturalist’s Library (1833-43)
Nicholas Rougeux, whose work I have featured here before, has published a complete digital edition of William Jardine’s 40-volume book series on natural history published in the early-to-mid 19th-century. As part of the
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Another Spirit of ’76: George Washington’s Whiskey www.nytimes.com/2026/06/24/d...
Another Spirit of ’76: George Washington’s Whiskey
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This Baker’s Business Is Booming (and It’s Not Just Because of the Cannon Fire) www.nytimes.com/2026/06/29/d...
This Baker’s Business Is Booming (and It’s Not Just Because of the Cannon Fire)
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Mercy Otis Warren, wealthy and white, and Elizabeth Freeman, Black and enslaved, both of Massachusetts, assessed and articulated freedom beyond constraints and expectations. So many histories of women differently situated can tell us about revolution-- glad for these. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
The Enslaved Woman Who Sued for Freedom and Emancipated Herself (Gift Article)
For the 250th anniversary, The Times Magazine asked leading historians to profile founding-era Americans whose roles in the drama have been often overlooked.
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Lloyd’s of London has commissioned a requiem mass from Manchester-based composer David Önaçto to memorialise the lives of enslaved Africans, with a libretto drawn from the Catholic requiem mass, documents in Lloyd’s own archive, and eighteenth-century legal testimony.
Lloyd’s acknowledges historic role in slave trade with ne...
The commission is the company’s latest effort to recognise its involvement in insuring ships and slave owners, but such gestures also draw criticism
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A Scandinavian Answer to John Singer Sargent Gets Her Due www.nytimes.com/2026/06/20/a...
A Scandinavian Answer to John Singer Sargent Gets Her Due
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See How These Artisans Are Recreating the Revolution www.nytimes.com/2026/06/16/t...
See How These Artisans Are Recreating the Revolution
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Retracing a War Hero’s Audacious Trek Across the Wilderness www.nytimes.com/2026/05/07/t...
Retracing a War Hero’s Audacious Trek Across the Wilderness
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Excellent news for the field www.ucl.ac.uk/social-histo...
UCL History Secures $575k Grant for Caribbean Enslaved People Database
A $575,000 grant from a North American funder will support the development of a database of enslaved people at the UCL Centre for the Study of the Legacies of British Slavery (CSLBS).
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The National Museum of African American History and Culture says a timber piece of the slave ship, the São José-Paquete de Africa, on display in its "Slavery and Freedom" exhibit, will soon be prepared for a trip back to its home museum in South Africa. https://to.pbs.org/46R6r0M
AP report: Slave ship artifact will soon leave the Smithsonian to return to its South African home
A Smithsonian museum exhibit about the maritime journey that millions of Africans were forced to take across the Atlantic to slavery in the Americas will change later this month, when a remnant from o...
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What happens when scholars, librarians, and historians collaborate across borders to make Caribbean knowledge accessible? Read Cross-Boundary Digital Collaboration as Scholarly and Institutional Experimentation to find out. #cdsc #articlespotlight
IN THE SAME SEA's team and Dr. Joy Lewis have guest-edited the special issue “Small Islands, Proximity and Connection in the Eastern Caribbean” of the Journal of Caribbean History. See: www.uwipress.com/journals/the... Thanks to all contributors and the journal’s main editor Kathleen Monteith.
Journal of Caribbean History | University of the West Indies Press
The Journal of Caribbean History (JCH) is a peer reviewed journal produced by the Departments of History, The University of the West Indies, and published by the University of the West Indies Press. T...
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Just one excellent bit from this brilliant book concerns the main character hanging out at Persepolis, one of the first Europeans to do so... www.nyrb.com/products/ara...
Arabia Felix
Arabia Felix is the spellbinding true story of a scientific expedition gone disastrously awry. On a winter morning in 1761 six men leave Copenhagen by sea—a botanist, a philologist, an astronomer, a d...
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Museum shrouds slave trader portrait to ‘reclaim Caribbean history’ www.thetimes.com/article/4d3e...
Museum shrouds slave trader portrait to ‘reclaim Caribbean history’
London Museum Docklands partially concealed the portrait of Beeston Long, a former governor of the Bank of England, as part of its exhibition
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Want to learn more about the spectacular find on the Danish cargo ship Anne-Marie? Sign up for an exciting roundtable with researchers from the Faroe Islands here: www.eventbrite.com/e/ships-seaf... #skystorians #19thcentury #earlymodern #maritimehistory
“… Hearing of the many occupations of a single family may have allowed our grandchildren to feel more understanding of turmoil, and of difference, thanks to the great roiling mixture that has defined our country from the start.” #genealogy www.nytimes.com/2026/02/15/o...
Opinion | What It Means to Hold Someone’s Attention With a Story
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Extremely interesting case relating to responsibilities for providing access to colonial archives that have a significant commercial relevance ... giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
Belgian museum caught in row over trove of DR Congo mineral records
KoBold Metals and DR Congo are pushing a Brussels museum to release records that would help map valuable metals
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If Bad Bunny can cover the history of Puerto Rico, colonialism, transatlantic slavery, hemispheric consciousness, as well as contemporary life and politics in under 14 minutes, you can do your 15- or 20-minute conference presentation with time to spare.
The Church of England is developing a reparative justice scheme in recognition of its complicity in trans-Atlantic slavery. Project Spire has been attacked in Parliament and the right wing press with claims of flawed historical research. What’s the truth? alanlester.co.uk/blog/the-arg...
The Argument About Project Spire and the Real History of the Church of England as an Enslaver
Alan Lester Immediately before and after the Black Lives Matter protests in 2020, a number of prominent British organisations assessed their entanglements with slavery and its afterlives. They incl…
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If you were hoping for some sort of overt political statement: see the literal plantation Benito created to perform in.
Bad Bunny brought a sugar cane plantation to the Super Bowl.
a man is carrying a large bundle of grass in a field with natgeotv.com written on the bottom
ALT: a man is carrying a large bundle of grass in a field with natgeotv.com written on the bottom
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Richards looks like a nineteenth-century assassin. #UniversityChallenge
Some important new government policy that Native Americans might be interested in:
Matt Novak@paleofuture.bsky.social · 7mo agoTrump talks about Denmark and Greenland just now: "The fact that they landed a boat there 500 years ago doesn't mean that they own the land."
“A work of historical reclamation—one that refuses to let the British monarchy remain peripheral in the story of the transatlantic slave trade. The result is a long-overdue & unflinching history of the Crown’s complicity & active participation in the slave trade.” open.substack.com/pub/jonathan...
Royal Silence, Archival Voice: A Review of Brooke N. Newman's "The Crown's Silence"
Brooke N.
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"It is the paradox of dictatorships that they are enormously powerful and yet fear they can be undone by verse." Thank you @theobserveruk.bsky.social for writing about #MohamedTadjadit, the poet unjustly imprisoned in #Algeria for his work. We continue our call for his immediate release.
The Observer@theobserveruk.bsky.social · 8mo agoAlgeria’s protest poet will need more than awards to avoid a life in prison Jailed for his verse, former fruit seller Mohamed Tadjadit has exposed the Algerian regime’s weaknesses. But that may not help his case ✍️ Steve Bloomfield https://bit.ly/3JPyHso
Protesters in Nigeria have disrupted this week’s opening of a major museum of West African art, where local disputes over the world-renowned Benin Bronzes have already kept them from being put on display. https://to.pbs.org/43klMFo
Protesters disrupt opening of major West African art museum in Nigeria
Protesters in Nigeria have disrupted this week’s opening of a major museum of West African art, where local disputes over the world-renowned Benin Bronzes have already kept them from being put on disp...
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