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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.
Just out: English Language Notes (ELN) vol 63.2, a theme issue: "Untimely Time: On History’s Instrumental Narratives" edited by Samuel Boyd of U of Colorado, Boulder. read.dukeupress.edu/english-lang...
I think it may be a hound/beagle thing!
Currently somewhat immobilized by 2 legs attached to a slumbering hound whom I disturb at my peril.
The Department of History at Queen’s University is hiring for the Buchanan Postdoctoral Fellow in Canadian History.
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then, 4 of 5 nominees in the Group Jazz category: Montreal's Code Quartet; Winnipeg Jazz Orchestra; Toronto's Shuffle Demons; and Alexis Baró Y La Big Band. Tune in at 2 EDT!
Today on @cfrcradio.bsky.social Dark Glasses we continue our series on this year's @junoaward.bsky.social nominees. We'll wrap up the Best Jazz Album solo category with Anthony d'Alessandro and veteran Nancy Walker; 1/2
2/2 And then decides ‘to heck with this’.
Faced with a binder full of materials and an iPhone full of emails to read for the day’s meetings (and somewhat hampered by her lack of opposable thumbs) Layla procrastinates. 1/2 …
She had me (of that view) at "I shot my dog".
will never happen (the snowed in might, but not the eggs).
Well this winter has had a couple of good competitors!
With the groceries running low my mother insisted on giving us eggs in various forms for meals, which to that point in my 7 year old life I had apparently liked. I have never knowingly eaten one in the six decades since, and can't even stand the smell of them.
60 years ago today, the generally winter-ready city of Winnipeg was buried by the snowstorm of the century. In our then only 3 year old house on Bower Blvd we were stuck inside (and roads unploughed) for 3 days. 1/2
and (less well known) the first person in England to introduce the concept of "Probability" into historical thought.
“I still find history full of wonders; I still find in the differences in past societies a way to take stock of the present—a source of sober realism, but also a source of hope.” —Natalie Zemon Davis, 1996.
Read more about why history matters & the importance of historical thinking in public life.
Todays' featured nominees are (vocal): Caity Gyorgy (marking a 6th consecutive nomination!) with Mark Limacher; Atlantic Jazz Collective; Ale Nuñez; Alex Samaras; and Laura Anglade; also solo jazz nominees Justin Gray; Aretha Tillotson; and veteran Renee Rosnes (11th nomination!). Tune in at 2 EST.
Canada's Juno awards for music occur on March 29, so the next several episodes of my radio show Dark Glasses on @cfrcradio.bsky.social will profile nominees across the several jazz and blues categories. Today we begin with all 5 vocal jazz nominees and will also begin the solo jazz album category /2
Same. I look forward to returning to visit my American friends when Trump (and his adherents) are out of power, but I won't even change planes there till that happy time arrives.
Sorry to hear yesterday of death of Neil Sedaka. Bad Blood remains one of my favourite tunes from my Grade 12 year, 50 years ago. And his song The Immigrant could not possibly be more timely in the current environment of anti-immigrant hatred.
Post a pic you took, no context, to bring some zen to the feed.
dying to hear--perhaps on Thursday...
Yesterday I could not figure out why my laptop was typing only caps. The caps lock was off. After several minutes of googling with no solution the problem turned out to be error k9, ‘hound snout resting on the right hand shift key’.
Cover of book with text in yellow reading: The Firearm Revolution: From Renaissance Italy to the European Empires, overlaid on an image of an angel in seventeenth-century dress with wings and a long gun.
Hello Bluesky! My new book, THE FIREARM REVOLUTION, is out on 14 April. It’s about how a new technology changed society, and how hard it was to control. Here’s a little thread of what’s inside:
I can offer you a deal on my 2nd grade field day participation trophy. Hardly been used. A piece of 1965 you could own.
we have one of those...
🛎️ The second volume of the BiUP Bielefeld Theory Talks series is now out.
It features Lucian Hölscher’s reflections on virtual history, followed by commentaries by Britta Hochkirchen, Chris Lorenz, and @rutakazlauskaite.bsky.social 👇
bielefelduniversitypress.de/publikatione...
🔔 We're launching our Bluesky account today! Can you help us spread the word by retweeting this post? 😀
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And in any case in our discipline we don't call it a lit review. We call it "historiography".
I love the assumption that all an academic paper is is a "lit review". Wow, if I'd known that I could have saved lots of time over the last 40 years doing, you know, research.
Nate Smith and säje, Brazilian siblings Caetano Velosa and Maria Bethania, and Cuban trio Gonzalo Rubalcaba, Yainer Horta, and Joey Calvaro. Tune in at 2 EST! (next week we start our annual "March Madness" rundown of this year's Juno nominees across Blues, Jazz and instrumental categories!)