iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Samuel Harvey @sharv98.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I have an article published in LJMUs ASPIRE Journal! The article, based on my Undergraduate research, investigates the fluidity of Anglo-Asante interests around the ‘Ashanti Expeditions’. The article is open access and available here: openjournals.ljmu.ac.uk/LJMU-ASPIRE/... #history #skystorians

030

Samuel Harvey @sharv98.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Quite possible I’ve over-done it with the sticky notes…

001

Samuel Harvey @sharv98.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

A break from reading for a spot of drawing. #history #britishhistory

000

Samuel Harvey @sharv98.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

With the submission of my MA Dissertation on the Aberdeen Act, I can now take down the ever-present gaze of Aberdeen watching me write! #history

001

Samuel Harvey @sharv98.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

I believe I may have resolved it. Casualties Richard Bowden, Stoker, killed. Mr. Donnison Assistn. Engineer & Alfred Ward, Mid. Steward slightly wounded. My next question is would there be such a rank or definition as midshipman’s steward? #navalhistory

110

Samuel Harvey @sharv98.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

For context, it is taken from a Ship’s Log of a 6-gun Paddle Steamer in 1850 (launched 1842).

020

Samuel Harvey @sharv98.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

I wonder if I could enlist the help of any naval historians. I’m trying to transcribe the casualty list (last 3 lines) but I am stuck on what I assume are the rates. I have: Richard Bowden, Stoker, killer. Mr. Donnison ??? ??? & Alfred Ward, ??? Steward slightly wounded. #navalhistory #skystorians

332

Samuel Harvey @sharv98.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

I think one of the best things to come across when looking in archives are things that really humanise the past. Such as Commander William Charles Chamberlain writing the ships name in bubble writing! #history #royalnavy #navalhistory

031

Samuel Harvey @sharv98.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

I completed my first trip to The National Archives in Kew last week, it was such a great experience. Still in awe at the accessibility of such a vast collection of materials. #history #skystorians #navalhistory

041

Samuel Harvey @sharv98.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Poor bugger barely made it past the cover!

000

Samuel Harvey @sharv98.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

I recently read an article by Emily Robinson (2010) on the empirical experience of archival research and touching the past. But looking at these ship’s logs at the National Archives, all I can think of is the amount of squished bugs between the pages! #history

100

Samuel Harvey @sharv98.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

‪It was quite a strange feeling to present work for the first time that wasn’t marked (as had been the case with presentations I had made during my Undergrad and MA). An exciting and enjoyable experience, to which I look forward to presenting more during my upcoming PhD!‬

000

Samuel Harvey @sharv98.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

I recently presented my first academic paper! Speaking at the Northwest Network for Imperial and Colonial studies my paper looked at the intersection of gunboat diplomacy and anti-slavery against Brazil in the 19th Century. 🗃️ #history #skystorians

110

Samuel Harvey @sharv98.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

It is such a privilege and blessing to have access to digitised sources. A quick search and you’re immersed in 19th Century treaties and statutes. 🗃️ #history This afternoon’s reading:

000

Samuel Harvey @sharv98.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Having to dictionarymaxx to not be primarysourcemogged.

000

Samuel Harvey @sharv98.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Only a Sith deals in abolutes

010

Samuel Harvey @sharv98.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

It is not every day an assignment means you can watch Waterloo (1970) as research! #history

000

Samuel Harvey @sharv98.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

First round of MA assignments completed... Finally time to give this a go #EU5

000

Samuel Harvey @sharv98.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

Great experience attending the Beyond Black History Month Symposium at @ljmuofficial.bsky.social. Insightful listening to @davidolusoga.bsky.social speak on Black British History from the Tudors to Trafalgar. #history

010

Samuel Harvey @sharv98.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

Managed to pick up some historical literature all for less than £10! Particularly looking forward to reading Stowe while researching Victorian anti-slavery.

000

Reposted by Samuel Harvey

Alyssa Long @measuredandslow.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

Hey a thing I really don’t want to get lost here is that while Tylenol doesn’t cause autism, IT’S FINE TO BE AUTISTIC. Let’s not grant them the premise that autism should be eradicated in our way to correct the science, okay? Okay.

7190712929

Samuel Harvey @sharv98.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

Using the summer break to catch up on some reading. Extending my reading into some long eighteenth century stuff. Both interesting reads, but I think I’m still in the long nineteenth century camp. #history #historybooks

010

Samuel Harvey @sharv98.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

Quite concerning that Waterstones now has an “alternative history” section, with books on 9/11 conspiracies and ancient aliens. Pseudoscience/history can be dangerous and should not be promoted nor legitimised.

020

Samuel Harvey @sharv98.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

Map dated 1858 showing the extent of the Asante Empire and British possessions in West Africa. Interestingly many British forts are simply underlined red, showing the lack of British influence and jurisdiction outside of its 'Bridgeheads' (John Darwin, 2013, p.8-9). #History

Source: Arrowsmith, John. ‘Map of the West Coast of Africa, comprising Guinea and the British Possessions at Sierra Leone, on the Gambia, and the Gold Coast, together with countries within the courses of the Rivers Senegal, Gambia, and Kowara. Compiled from official documents by John Arrowsmith, London, 1858’, 1858, CO 700_WEST AFRICA15, The National Archives.

010

Samuel Harvey @sharv98.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

Although I fear more practice is required to impress Mr Sharpe with 3 rounds a minute.

010

Samuel Harvey @sharv98.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

A Graduation present to myself! An (Inert) India Pattern Brown Bess Reproduction.

110

Samuel Harvey @sharv98.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

British Army Air Corp Display.

100

Samuel Harvey @sharv98.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

Pakistan Airforce JF-17 and C-130.

100

Samuel Harvey @sharv98.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

Selection of NATO Static Displays. 2/2

100

Samuel Harvey @sharv98.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

Selection of NATO Static Displays. 1/2

100

Samuel Harvey @sharv98.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

I was very kindly given tickets to attend #RIAT25 this year, although belated I thought I might share some highlights in a thread:

110

Samuel Harvey @sharv98.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

A successful initial escapade into gardening. Nicotiana Alata (I think) grown over the course of a year.

010

Samuel Harvey @sharv98.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

First Class Graduate in History 📚

020

Samuel Harvey @sharv98.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

Leach continues and provides his own opinions on the argument. #history #waterloo

Leach, Jonathan. Captain of the 95th (Rifles): An Officer of Wellington’s sharpshooters during the Peninsular, South of France and Waterloo Campaigns of the Napoleonic Wars, (London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green, 2019), 206.

010

Samuel Harvey @sharv98.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

Following the Battle of Waterloo, towards the end of June, Captain Jonathan Leach of the 1st Battalion 95th Rifles, while stationed at St. Denis noted in his journal a ‘curious dialogue’ between soldiers of his division. It provides an interesting window into the variety of Wellingtons force.

120

Samuel Harvey @sharv98.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

A few academic additions to the ever-growing library, picked up after helping out at the @batw.bsky.social conference at @ljmuofficial.bsky.social.

150

Samuel Harvey @sharv98.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

I would agree, although I feel the battle and I would suppose nature of the battle (in Wellington’s words “the nearest-run thing you ever saw in your life”), provides a sort of spectacular finish to the wars and that period of history.

000

Samuel Harvey @sharv98.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

I went with Waterloo being the final act, however Trafalgar was a close second. Sets up Britains naval domination into the 19th Century.

030

Samuel Harvey @sharv98.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

Waterloo? Ends a quarter-century of revolution, war and death across Europe.

100

Samuel Harvey @sharv98.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

Major-General Sir Garnet Wolseley to the War Office, 18 October 1873. Recommendations of kit for 'The Ashanti Expedition' (1874). Source: Ashanti Expedition, 8 September 1873-22 February 1874, WO 106/285, The National Archives. #Britishhistory #Militaryhistory #Asante #History

010

Samuel Harvey @sharv98.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

Dissertation completed and submitted. 10058 words on British and Asante interests that drove conflict and expansion on the Gold Coast. #history #Britishhistory #university

020