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Simon Newman

@simonatmadison.bsky.social
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Historian, gardener, cook (not necessarily in that order)

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Simon Newman @simonatmadison.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Still harvesting
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Rebecca Brenner Graham @theotherrbg.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
🔥🔥🔥 @profmoskowitz.bsky.social @simonatmadison.bsky.social @katejewell.bsky.social @jmadelman.bsky.social @mjrp.bsky.social
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Simon Newman @simonatmadison.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
When your garden gives you lots of pears…
Pear pie
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Simon Newman @simonatmadison.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Garden yield slowing, but still a satisfying bowl full each time I go out…
Bowl of freshly picked tomatoes, pears, beans, and a leek
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Simon Newman @simonatmadison.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Congratulations to @csschmitt.bsky.social and all of the finalists! macmillan.yale.edu/glc/stories/...
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Yale Announces 2026 Frederick Douglass Book Prize Finalists
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Simon Newman @simonatmadison.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
There is something wonderful about growing, harvesting, and canning tomatoes!
Jars of tomato saucePlum tomatoes in a colander
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Simon Newman @simonatmadison.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Congratulations Cate, didn’t know you had moved. Nice to have you back in the upper Midwest 🙂
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Simon Newman @simonatmadison.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
We have harvested 15 zucchini already! So, zucchini and goats cheese loaves, and a chocolate zucchini cake with cream cheese frosting. Tomorrow will be zucchini pizza (better than it sounds)
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Suffolk Archives @suffolkarchives.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Have you heard of Lilian Redstone? She was one of the first women to make history her profession and helped establish the first county record offices in Suffolk, shaping how the county's history is kept and shared today. We're honouring her life and work with a range of events orlo.uk/1LVxg
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Simon Newman @simonatmadison.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Proud of @glasgow.ac.uk and delighted for the wonderful @deaconbluemusic.bsky.social I really wish I could have been there.
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Simon Newman @simonatmadison.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Thank you Leon, you’ve made my day! Really looking forward to reading your new work.
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Simon Newman @simonatmadison.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Another morning in the kitchen, strawberry and rhubarb, and strawberry jam
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Simon Newman @simonatmadison.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Cherries from the garden, some dried and some as jam. A morning well spent!
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Marina Moskowitz @profmoskowitz.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Hello Bluesky! Very pleased to say this is in the world, either in this fetching hardback or available for open access digital download! @lynncabrams.bsky.social @sallytuckett.bsky.social @bloomsburyacademic.bsky.social
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Simon Newman @simonatmadison.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Congratulations Casey! Hard to think of anyone more deserving.
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Simon Newman @simonatmadison.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Congratulations Lynn, Roslyn, Lin, Marina, and Sally!
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Simon Newman @simonatmadison.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Wow. Gives me goosebumps every time. www.youtube.com/watch?v=B0be...
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Paul Robeson sings to Scottish miners (1949)
YouTube video by BFI
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Seth Rockman @sethrockman.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
Look what's here! Just in time to order for your fall classes! It's the affordable paperback version of *Plantation Goods* from @uchicagopress.bsky.social
A stack of 5 copies of the paperback version of Plantation Goods by Seth Rockman
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Simon Newman @simonatmadison.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
If you are in Madison tomorrow, please come to our Freedom Seekers exhibition and lecture. The exhibition will be up in the lobby of the Wisconsin Historical Society for ten days. www.tickettailor.com/events/freed...
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Reserve tickets – Freedom Seekers Symposium: Stories of Black Liberation in the American Revolutionary Era and Beyond – Wisconsin Historical Society
Freedom Seekers Symposium: Stories of Black Liberation in the American Revolutionary Era and Beyond – Wisconsin Historical Society, Thu Apr 23, 2026 - This event is free and open to the public! ...
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Simon Newman @simonatmadison.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
www.gainesville.com/story/news/2...
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Ben Franklin, Betsy Ross impersonators wed in Philadelphia
Benjamin Franklin and Betsy Ross celebrated the eve of the Fourth of July not with fireworks but with wedding vows. Ralph Archbold and Linda Wilde, who portray the historical figures, tied the knot T…
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Simon Newman @simonatmadison.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
Years ago the main Franklin impersonator married the Betsy Ross impersonator, both in costume! Messed with my historian’s head…
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Simon Newman @simonatmadison.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
Hosting the appetizer course for our neighborhood progressive pot luck. Made polenta rounds, with artichoke spread, and then roasted carrots or roasted mushrooms or roasted mixed vegetables on them.
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Simon Newman @simonatmadison.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
Back in North Berwick for the first time in eight years! We truly love this place
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Freedom Seekers: Stories of Black Liberation in the Am. Rev. @freedomseekers.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
For us in the present, runaway advertisements offer windows into the lives of the enslaved. For 19th century abolitionists, these advertisements exposed the absurdity of human bondage. Check out @adamrothman.bsky.social excellent new article for the JAH: academic.oup.com/jah/article-...
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Slip the Yoke and Change the Joke: How Abolitionists Used Runaway Slave Advertisements to Ridicule Slavery
Speaking to an abolitionist audience in New York City in May 1856, William Wells Brown read an advertisement sliced from the New Orleans Daily Picayune:
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Simon Newman @simonatmadison.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Lake City Books, a block from the state capitol building. www.lakecitybooks.com
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Lake City Books
Madison's downtown indie bookstore
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Simon Newman @simonatmadison.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Some days cooking and baking are the best therapy. Bread this morning, fisherman’s pie this evening.
Two loaves freshly baked breadDish of fish pie
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Simon Newman @simonatmadison.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
@agordonreed.bsky.social Madison book store. I agree with this message
Picture of Juneteenth book
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Simon Newman @simonatmadison.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Thinking of @kawulf.bsky.social’s new book. This single quilt block was made in 1915 by Emma Reinsertsen in Milwaukee, using pieces of her mother’s wedding dress (1845), those of her sisters (1866 and 1875), and from her own (1871). UW Madison, Ctr Design & Material Culture. Quilted genealogy!
Picture of crazy quilt single block, with picture of display label.
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Simon Newman @simonatmadison.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
🙂👍
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Simon Newman @simonatmadison.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Spring like weather in Madison, and Lake Mendota melting! Snow forecast later this week…
Picture of sun setting over Lake Mendota, with sunlight reflected in pools of melted ice
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Simon Newman @simonatmadison.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
I recommend the Measuring Worth website: allows you to use Relative Price Worth, Relative Wage or Income Growth, or Relative Output Worth. These can give drastically different conversion amounts. www.measuringworth.com/calculators/
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Measuring Worth - Measures of worth, inflation rates, saving calculator, relative value, worth of a dollar, worth of a pound, purchasing power, gold prices, GDP, history of wages, average wage
Have you ever wondered what the "worth" of a dollar was in 1907? Or what something purchased years ago with British pounds would be worth in dollars today? Using these calculators, you can answer these questions.
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Simon Newman @simonatmadison.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
And @marcusrediker.bsky.social too!
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Simon Newman @simonatmadison.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
New books on display at Wisconsin Historical Society, with @sethrockman.bsky.social included!
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Simon Newman @simonatmadison.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
New books on display at Wisconsin Historical Society, with @sethrockman.bsky.social included!
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Simon Newman @simonatmadison.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
This. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/o...
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Opinion | I’m the Prime Minister of Spain. This Is Why the West Needs Migrants.
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Simon Newman @simonatmadison.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
And my other contender: "There’s a Guy Works Down the Chip Shop, Swears He’s Elvis” by the amazing Kirsty MacColl www.youtube.com/watch?v=5sGi...
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Kirsty MacColl - There's A Guy Works Down The Chip Shop Swears He's Elvis, TOTP 900th Edition
YouTube video by VHS Rewinds
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Simon Newman @simonatmadison.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
I'm In Love With The Girl On The Manchester Virgin Megastore Check-out Desk (The Freshies), www.youtube.com/watch?v=VvV4...
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Freshies - I'm In Love With The Girl On The Manchester Virgin Megastore Check-out Desk
YouTube video by thhjones
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Simon Newman @simonatmadison.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
The wonderful @marshfamilysongs.bsky.social do it again. Check this out. www.youtube.com/watch?v=BRHx...
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"Minnesota" - Marsh Family adaptation of "San Francisco (Be Sure to Wear Some Flowers in Your Hair)"
YouTube video by Marsh Family
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Simon Newman @simonatmadison.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Very excited to have received my copy of the new book by @brookenewman.bsky.social Already deep into this timely, deeply researched and truly significant work.
Picture of the cover of the book The Crown’s Silence, by Brooke Newman,
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Faculti @faculti.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
How did fugitive lives in 17th-century London expose the metropolitan foundations of England’s emerging system of racial slavery? @simonatmadison.bsky.social @glasgow.ac.uk discusses: uolpress.co.uk/book/freedom... #History
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Simon Newman @simonatmadison.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
Worth going back to: helped M and I get through the pandemic!
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Simon Newman @simonatmadison.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
The Mary Tyler Moore show. Timeless, funny and decent.
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Simon Newman @simonatmadison.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
Beautiful! Here is our’s
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Simon Newman @simonatmadison.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
Thanks Leon!
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Simon Newman @simonatmadison.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
45 years ago I left England for Milwaukee as a JYA student. 2 years later I returned to begin graduate school at UW Milwaukee. Today, in Milwaukee, I became a U.S. citizen. I want to participate in the defence of the republic and the ideals for which it stands. From today I do that as a citizen. 🇺🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
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Simon Newman @simonatmadison.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
Congratulations Karin! Really looking forward to your online book talk on Thursday at www.congregationallibrary.org/events/lineage
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Lineage | Congregational Library & Archives
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Simon Newman @simonatmadison.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
Tonight I am thinking of Reg Horsman. He taught me when I started grad school 43 years ago, and I was often his teaching assistant. Remembering many late nights, and many, many games of darts. RIP Reg. www.feerickfuneralhome.com/obituary/reg...
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Obituary for Reginald Horsman at Feerick Funeral Home
Reginald Horsman, a distinguished scholar and beloved husband, father and professor, passed away peacefully in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on August 20th, 2025, at the age of 93. He was surrounded by his lo...
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Simon Newman @simonatmadison.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
My story is just like your’s (and at the same universities🙂): a grant funding my undergraduate education, and then fellowships funding my graduate education in the USA. Nothing that I have achieved since then would have been possible without this support.
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Simon Newman @simonatmadison.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
Basil plants went crazy this summer. No problem
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Simon Newman @simonatmadison.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
You both look wonderful! Congratulations!
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