Samantha E Thompson @harchivist.bsky.social · 21/09/2026🙏 I usually find them tough so changing it up this year. 100
Samantha E Thompson @harchivist.bsky.social · 21/09/2026He and his English wife Eliza Field Jones were remarkable people. More: www.biographi.ca/en/bio/jones... 020
Samantha E Thompson @harchivist.bsky.social · 21/09/2026For my birthday I visited the grave of one of my favourite historical figures, the Rev. Peter Jones (Kahkewaquonaby). The inscription is now hardly legible. You can make out the word Ojibway and part of his name. The original wording may be in some archival records I catalogued. 240
Reposted by Samantha E ThompsonCanadian Cultural Heritage Advocacy Committee @cchac.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Register now for a free advocacy webinar with John Chrastka of the EveryLibrary Institute @everylibrary.bsky.social on October 13 at 3:00 pm ET. archivists.ca/event-6826891archivists.caAssociation of Canadian Archivists - Making the Case for Archives: Funding, Coalitions, and Elected Officials - Free advocacy webinar presented by the Canadian Cultural Heritage Advocacy CommitteeORG description 023
Samantha E Thompson @harchivist.bsky.social · 19/07/2026Two of multiple tornado warnings via my phone yesterday (including of an actual tornado?). Looking for a country I can blame for this. 221
Samantha E Thompson @harchivist.bsky.social · 27/06/2026Vast Lake Ontario was still as a pond this morning. 2242
Samantha E Thompson @harchivist.bsky.social · 09/06/2026Great to see a gallery taking the archival deposit equally seriously. 010
Samantha E Thompson @harchivist.bsky.social · 09/06/2026Ooooo jealous. I haven't been on an airplane since 2019 let alone doing history back in the UK. Enjoy! 110
Samantha E Thompson @harchivist.bsky.social · 25/05/2026I've been a woman for many decades and there is definitely regression across the board. Never seen anything like it. 010
Reposted by Samantha E ThompsonVaughan Williams Foundation @vwfndn.bsky.social · 10/05/2026🗞️ A new song by Ralph Vaughan Williams has been discovered! ‘Before the Mirror’ is a setting of part of a poem by Swinburne. It was recently unearthed in a box of odd manuscripts in the archive of Morley College by Learning Resources Centre Manager, Elaine Andrews. 🧵1/3 3112
Samantha E Thompson @harchivist.bsky.social · 14/04/2026One of my favorites among her renditions. youtu.be/qqXk7Fgxbtk?...youtu.beCoinleach Glas An FhómhairYouTube video by Clannad - Topic 162
Reposted by Samantha E ThompsonJess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 10/04/2026Week 14 of my stitch-the-news daily news diary included: A Waffle House A Pope hat A devil's pitchfork A Michigan logo A white flag A Polymarket app A penguin 810717
Samantha E Thompson @harchivist.bsky.social · 29/03/2026Same, just hit me up. Creepy as it personalizes things. 020
Samantha E Thompson @harchivist.bsky.social · 27/03/2026Wondering whether this is a phonetic spelling of Gippos/Gyppos, a term unfortunately derived from Gypsy, sometimes used for itinerant workers. en.wiktionary.org/wiki/gippo?h... www.oed.com/dictionary/g... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gyppo_l....en.wiktionary.orggippo - Wiktionary, the free dictionary 000
Samantha E Thompson @harchivist.bsky.social · 27/03/2026Doctors have a remarkable ability to make you feel like an imposition no matter what you do. Test comes back negative, why are you wasting their time. Test comes back positive, sigh, now you're really going to waste their time. 010
Samantha E Thompson @harchivist.bsky.social · 22/03/2026Lol, you should see it now. Anyway I'll always be grateful for your support on that occasion. 010
Samantha E Thompson @harchivist.bsky.social · 22/03/2026You would be to me, and I've met you albeit on Zoom. 100
Samantha E Thompson @harchivist.bsky.social · 22/03/2026This has happened to me and I'm less impressive than you, as are the the places I've worked. Most people consider me rather pleasant and not hateable (I think). Sad to say women in allied fields can less than supportive of one another. 110
Samantha E Thompson @harchivist.bsky.social · 12/03/2026I just suddenly recalled an entire Gregorian chant I learned 24 years ago and didn't know I knew. Unfortunately I can't remember what I had for breakfast today. 020
Samantha E Thompson @harchivist.bsky.social · 03/03/2026I'm so sorry, that's very hard. I do hope it wasn't a predator. It's rare for wild animals to be found, they usually hide when they are nearing the end. He must have wanted to stay close. 010
Samantha E Thompson @harchivist.bsky.social · 03/03/2026Was he found or just stopped coming? Sorry to ask. 110
Samantha E Thompson @harchivist.bsky.social · 14/02/2026Old piano for sale at the Salvation Army Thrift Store. Somehow very touching. 040
Samantha E Thompson @harchivist.bsky.social · 04/02/2026Worst time of winter and and a long way to go yet. Brits and their snowdrops can buzz off. 040
Samantha E Thompson @harchivist.bsky.social · 22/01/2026My pile is vast. Haven't had the energy or heart to read properly for pleasure for a while. Must do better. I've just been reading children's books or Agatha Christie before bed so I'm not too haunted at night...(it's not working). 110
Samantha E Thompson @harchivist.bsky.social · 22/01/2026Got it! Haven't read it yet though. It's on my pile. 120
Samantha E Thompson @harchivist.bsky.social · 19/01/2026Surprising how many people were out taking a walk last night at -15C. All of us grimly nodding as we passed one another. 020
Samantha E Thompson @harchivist.bsky.social · 18/01/2026Pressing tofu. Yes I still have a dictionary. Sometimes I even read it, not that you'd know by my spelling. 1170
Samantha E Thompson @harchivist.bsky.social · 17/01/2026I am sad that this is so personally familiar. 130
Samantha E Thompson @harchivist.bsky.social · 05/01/2026😵💫 In my world archival researchers never sleep...especially genealogists. 000
Samantha E Thompson @harchivist.bsky.social · 05/01/2026Bloody Teams notifications are an ice pick to my brain. God it was nice to have a break from the peck peck peck peck peck... 010
Samantha E Thompson @harchivist.bsky.social · 04/01/2026Just finished processing new purchases for the parish library. (I tend to emphasize accessible books the public library likely won't have.) I miss working with books. They're so mellow compared to archival records which resist corralling at every turn. 160
Samantha E Thompson @harchivist.bsky.social · 04/01/2026And Macron. They know something we don't? 100
Samantha E Thompson @harchivist.bsky.social · 04/01/2026Still recovering from a horrible realistic dream in which the US carpet-bombed Toronto. That kind of dream where you're thinking "this has to be a dream but it isn't." 130