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Claire Campbell

@clairecampbell.bsky.social
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Expat 🇨🇦 environmental historian; lover of flowers, wind over water, ice cream, & Jane of Lantern Hill.

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Claire Campbell @clairecampbell.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Apparently woods were tidier in the nineteenth century? Forrest, "Exact Resemblance of the Foliage of the Wood in Canada in October-November" (1823) v. Carmichael, "Autumn" (1921) @gallery.ca #cdnhist #envhist tinyurl.com/3w3jvpp6 & tinyurl.com/mt3nt8px
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Claire Campbell @clairecampbell.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
For the morning-blue above us / And the rusted gold of the fern (Bliss Carman, 1922)
Photo of goldenrod against a blue sky
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Claire Campbell @clairecampbell.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
My twelve-year-old’s pre-match/pre-practice pump-up song, so it’s on rotation in the car year-round — but today is a special day. youtube.com/watch?v=Gs06...
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Earth, Wind & Fire - September (Official HD Video)
YouTube video by EarthWindandFireVEVO
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Claire Campbell @clairecampbell.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
My employer (Bucknell U) is pushing some AI thing called BoodleBox. Ironically, the name only makes me think of the TwiddleBugs (a better expression and application of human imagination). youtu.be/M36TyN2TXrY?...
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Sesame Street - Twiddlebugs Going to the Zoo (1973)
YouTube video by asaweryold
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Claire Campbell @clairecampbell.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Beaver: "remarkable ... for the intellectual powers it is observed to possess … we may also perceive to what a degree animals unassisted either by language or reason, are capable of concurring for their mutual benefit …” W.F. Martyn, "A new dictionary of natural history" (1785) tinyurl.com/3naarm9a
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Claire Campbell @clairecampbell.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
À propos of nothing. Encore une fois. Jacques-Nicolas Bellin, "Partie occidentale du Canada contenant les lacs Ontario, Huron, Erié, et Lac Superieur" (1752) tinyurl.com/bdf52yx8
French map showing Lake *Ontario* and peopled by numerous Indigenous communities.
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Claire Campbell @clairecampbell.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Happy Anniversary. À propos of nothing. "Capture of the City of Washington [1814]," 1816 edition. tinyurl.com/56pcbsfp
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Claire Campbell @clairecampbell.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Talk about a labour of love. @ubcpress.bsky.social tinyurl.com/y6mdskde #envhist #cdnhist
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Claire Campbell @clairecampbell.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Looking for Old Ontario. tinyurl.com/4sstuywr (Sometimes I really love what I do.) #envhist #cdnhist
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Claire Campbell @clairecampbell.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
“I do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between me and the earth.” Checking in on soccer practice at Keller Field, Hummelstown, Pennsylvania, 6:15 pm.
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Claire Campbell @clairecampbell.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Academic administration is like those poetry fridge magnets; just arrange in any order: interdisciplinary innovation excellence achievement dialogue outcomes engagement centre iniatitive ... sometimes it’s important to remember that universities are places where people actually study things.
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Claire Campbell @clairecampbell.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
I'm seeing Hallowe'en in the grocery stores and Advent calendars in my social media, so it's nice to remember that it's *August.*
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Claire Campbell @clairecampbell.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
I can't be in two places at once. I choose this.
My twelve-year-old leaping to catch a soccer ball.
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Claire Campbell @clairecampbell.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Watch your flank, America. #elbowsup
Two Canada geese approach Subaru Park [Chester, PA] with American flags above the wall.
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Claire Campbell @clairecampbell.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
<Voice of Richard Attenborough> "Ah, the distinctive squeal of the historian who finds what she's looking for." God bless the Canadiana project. @crkn-rcdr.bsky.social #cdnhist tinyurl.com/yc48h6kp
Archival document
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Claire Campbell @clairecampbell.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
One of the best re/inventions of our age.
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Claire Campbell @clairecampbell.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
“Transformative Teaching Space” vs. transformative teaching space.
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Claire Campbell @clairecampbell.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
Solstice sunrise, central Pennsylvania.
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Claire Campbell @clairecampbell.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
I'm in good health, am reasonably fit, and have no family history of heart attacks, high blood pressure, etc. ... but I'm not sure I'm going to survive several more weeks of World Cup matches. #ohthedrama ⚽
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Claire Campbell @clairecampbell.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Vive le Québec.
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Claire Campbell @clairecampbell.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
13 years ago I spent an amazing semester @mcgill.ca Institute for the Study of Canada. Now I get to spend a week introducing a 12-year-old to #envhist & #cdnhist (& bagels) in this fantastic place. ❤️ tinyurl.com/5c77fe7u @museemccordstewart.bsky.social
James Duncan, Montreal from the mountain/Montréal depuis la montagne (1854). Watercolour painting of Montreal from the top of Mount Royal.
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Claire Campbell @clairecampbell.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
My sister-in-law once said, "I need a wife." I think about that a lot. This post brought to you by middle-school health forms.
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Claire Campbell @clairecampbell.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
On this day in 1813 in Boston harbour ... "Capture of the American Frigate Chesapeake by HMS Shannon," Richard Henry King. Towed into Halifax five days later. Have a cup of tea. @library-archives.canada.ca
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Claire Campbell @clairecampbell.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Summer means rereading middle-school favourites (alongside your favourite middle-schooler) 🩵
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Claire Campbell @clairecampbell.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
If you can't be at the cottage, you can still get in the spirit of the holiday ... Tom Thomson, Cottage on a Rocky Shore, 1914 @gallery.ca
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Claire Campbell @clairecampbell.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
When there's been no news on your green card renewal for most of a year, *and* you're reading Loyalist papers that insist "the rebels of the country were the original causes of all their misfortunes" (1779), you do start to wonder if the two are related ... 🤨 #cdnhist
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Claire Campbell @clairecampbell.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Spring woods are the best woods. 🌳
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Claire Campbell @clairecampbell.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
10 seconds of tranquility; or, every day is Earth Day. 🌎 Susquehanna River, Milton State Park, Pennsylvania
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Claire Campbell @clairecampbell.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Excited to read this as pumpkins are very important in our house. (Photo from 2019.) tinyurl.com/ead27cmy @uwapress.uw.edu #envhist
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Claire Campbell @clairecampbell.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Happy International Goalkeepers’ Day to all who celebrate. (That should be everybody.)
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Claire Campbell @clairecampbell.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
"Not signed or dated," but absolutely lovely. 💚 @novascotiamuseum.bsky.social tinyurl.com/mr8vbpzk
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Claire Campbell @clairecampbell.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
[coughs politely in Canadian] They're *all* astronauts. @reuters.com
Photo of the four astronauts aboard the Orion on the Artemis mission, April 8, 2026, during Jeremy Hanson's phone conversation with Prime Minister Mark Carney.
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Claire Campbell @clairecampbell.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
A bit too early to bloom yet, but too pretty not to post. "Wild Flowers of Nova Scotia: May Flower. Epigaea repenes," Maria Morris, ca. 1833 @artgalleryns.bsky.social
watercolour painting of pink mayflowers
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Claire Campbell @clairecampbell.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
🇨🇦 represent #aseh2026 #kansascity
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Claire Campbell @clairecampbell.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
The absence of Canada should be a significant question at #aseh2026.
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Claire Campbell @clairecampbell.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
Vous êtes ici. Guillaume Delisle, Carte de la Louisiane et du cours du Mississipi, 1718. #aseh2026 @aseh.bsky.social @gallicabnf.bsky.social tinyurl.com/35rk4zvr
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Claire Campbell @clairecampbell.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Memories of a happy week (with the best paths!) in the world's happiest country (congratulations). tinyurl.com/y8dw28bv @iceho.bsky.social #wceh2024 #envhist
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Claire Campbell @clairecampbell.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Willing spring into existence at this point. C.W. Jefferys, "Apple Orchard, Wooded Hillside - Durham Hills or Nova Scotia" (ca. 1930s) @gallery.ca
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Claire Campbell @clairecampbell.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
Help me, Bluesky, you're my only hope. What is this word? (The sentence reads: "and when men of capital [???], and investigation betake themselves to rural pursuits, we may look forward to more extensive enquiries."
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Claire Campbell @clairecampbell.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
Fool's spring, but still.
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Claire Campbell @clairecampbell.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Stupid (wonderful) Canadian wolf bird. L. Hyde, 1957 @library-archives.canada.ca tinyurl.com/2w3uk3f2 www.hww.ca/wildlife/bir...
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Claire Campbell @clairecampbell.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Teaching colonial history (as a Canadian in the United States) & bracing for a full year of 1776ishness. (Colonial Williamsburg, 1986.)
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Claire Campbell @clairecampbell.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
/looks up from writing a report on the environmental history of Prescott House & Starrs Point www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... #envhist #cdnhist
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N.S. government closing some museums, most visitor information centres | CBC News
The province says the closures are related to the 'modernization' of the museum system and visitor information delivery.
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Claire Campbell @clairecampbell.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Hubbardston Nonsuch, Westfield Seek-no-further, Drap d’Or: apple varieties grown in Nova Scotia 150 years ago. Astonishing. (But the russets are the best.) Proceedings of the American Pomological Society, 1875; USDA Pomological Watercolor Collection.
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Claire Campbell @clairecampbell.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
... or July. Halifax, 21 July 2025.
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Claire Campbell @clairecampbell.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Yes, it's winter, but the turn in light is beautiful. Tom Thomson, "Open Water, Joe Creek" (1917) tinyurl.com/373bjbf8 @agotoronto.bsky.social
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Claire Campbell @clairecampbell.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
"Never mind, my dears, I have no doubt we shall get along very well without her." (ca. 1900) #cdnhist @museemccordstewart.bsky.social tinyurl.com/bdzbwwbh
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Claire Campbell @clairecampbell.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Snowstorm '26: We're going to need a bigger barrel. James Duncan, "Carting snow at Montreal" (1847-50) @library-archives.canada.ca
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Claire Campbell @clairecampbell.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Heading into the weekend's storm with this kind of enthusiasm. M.F. Dyneley, "Sledge and Habitants in a snowstorm" (1848) tinyurl.com/3yc7fhh9 @library-archives.canada.ca
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Claire Campbell @clairecampbell.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
The Balloon Pilot, Ib Antoni, 1970 tinyurl.com/45natwur
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