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James Fitzjames @captjamesfitzjames.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

Sir John Ross, engraving, 1833. [My collection] He's looking very honest and friendly. #NavalHistory

Shaun @tapedekk.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

War of 1812 Valentines by others, rated! River Raisin National Battlefield Park Foundation: 4/10, an attempt was made. Fort Malden National Historic Site: 9/10, nice aerial view, holiday spirit, funny message. Well no wonder Canada won this war. 😩

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Shaun @tapedekk.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Jumping on Bluesky to share my War of 1812 valentines for the special occasion! ❤️⚔️ Maybe don't send the Brock one to your Canadian friends.

The death of General Zebulon Pike, as a Valentine's Day card with the message "Our love is EXPLOSIVE! Happy Valentine's Day!"

USS Constitution vs. HMS Guerriere as a Valentine's Day card with the message, "Valentine you blow me away!"

The death of Sir Isaac Brock at the Battle of Queenston Heights as a Valentine's Day card with the message, "Valentine, you've got me right in the heart!"

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Shaun @tapedekk.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

"Trying hard to do the bluesky thing," they wrote in their biography, lying.

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Shaun @tapedekk.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

I love my new job and apartment, but I don't love the tiny kitchen and I never make special recipes anymore. I found a pic of last year's Christmas pudding (my first attempt!) and I'm reminded that it's almost Stir-Up Sunday.

A photograph of traditional Christmas Pudding on a blue willow pattern plate, on my (former) kitchen counter with a backdrop of cookbooks and small appliances.

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Shaun @tapedekk.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

10 shows to get to know me: A Desert Between Us and Them (2013) PBS Nova Mr. Rogers’ factory visits (I still love these! www.misterrogers.org/articles/fac...) The Simpsons The Real Ghostbusters The Last Place on Earth (1985) Transformers Steven Universe Sharpe TV series Hornblower TV series

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Shaun @tapedekk.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

When I make super unwise sleep schedule decisions, one added bonus is seeing all of the British social media I follow. (When it's morning in Britain, I'm in trouble).

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Shaun @tapedekk.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

I'm aware of some of these tips and tricks, but not all of them, so I'm saving this for future reference. Bluesky definitely feels a lot like "classic twitter" in terms of how easy it is to curate and filter your feed. I really like the starter packs, I've followed a few military history ones.

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OTD Military History @otdmilhistory.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

A starter pack for Canadian military #history. It’s a small list but it can always grow bigger. And if you’d like to be added or removed, let me know. go.bsky.app/CF3nF4E

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Shaun @tapedekk.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Welp, I followed the whole coastal history starter pack. (Not that I am making that or really any kind of content here on a consistent basis). Is there such a thing as a War of 1812 Starter Pack? 👀

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Dr Cathryn Pearce @cathrynpearce.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

It's up! We now have a #CoastalHistory starter pack. People can also use and search the hashtag. If you're working on coastal history and want to be included, let me know. go.bsky.app/Pfa95p7

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Shaun @tapedekk.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Trying to get my redcoats to fortify the camp but they keep lounging insouciantly. :/

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Shaun @tapedekk.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

I've had "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" in my head for like a week straight. This is what happens when you live in the Great Lakes region for too long.

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Cassidy Percoco @mimicofmodes.com · 08/11/2024

Because I just met 🎉Jo Paoletti🎉, I'll be reposting my thread on the idea that "boys used to dress in pink and girls in blue, but then that switched for important symbolic/historic reasons," which is completely untrue yet very popular on the internet. #FashionHistory

A painting of several of Queen Victoria's children, all dressed n white with blue trimmings.

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Shaun @tapedekk.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Hello, Central Casting? Yes, I'm the person who called earlier about a character actor. I need the sleaziest scumbag guy you have, I want everything about him to scream corruption and cronyism, like sex trafficker level evil— What do you mean Matt Gaetz has another job now??? He's not available??

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Conversation Kenge @fenken.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

This is a carronade (named after the Carron foundry in Falkirk) for use by merchant ships. Usually a heavier calibre than a gun, but much shorter range. Interestingly, carronades weren't counted when rating a Royal Navy ship (ships were rated by numbers of guns). #GunneryIsFunnery

This is a late-model carronade mounted on a battery carriage (two iron wheels, which would damage the deck if you fired it on a wooden vessel). At sea, carronades were mounted on slides, rather than carriages. It is much shorter than a gun, with an elevation screw at the rear, rather than a quoin (which was a wooden wedge to control elevation). The elevation screw is missing, but the loop for the screw is visible behind the breech of the gun. There is a breeching loop above the button. Two reinforces - the first with a royal cipher (George the Third in this case). The trunnions are below the barrel, as on all carronades. Red tompion in the muzzle. There is a second carronade behind. Both are on the port side of the weather deck of HMS Unicorn.

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Shaun @tapedekk.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

A few pictures of the Great Lakes freighter museum ship Col. James M. Schoonmaker, which we visited on the 10th of November for "The Fitzgerald Experience"—which did NOT involve sinking with all hands, what museum ship organization can afford that?

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Shaun @tapedekk.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

"Trying hard to do the bluesky thing," they wrote in their biography, lying.

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History Clippings @historyclippings.bsky.social · 19/10/2024

Question for all the people who read history books: Where/how did you find out about the last non-fiction history book you read? #booksky

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Kristy Baxter @kbax.bsky.social · 19/10/2024

Note to my new followers that I also have this account, where I sometimes post food-related old timey stuff

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Shaun @tapedekk.bsky.social · 19/10/2024

Happy Caturday! I'm packing for our traditional Trafalgar Weekend getaway. (Not that we will be anywhere near either Spain or England).

A seal point siamese cat next to a folded t-shirt that reads "HMS Victory" with part of the ship and a large Union Flag visible.

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Shaun @tapedekk.bsky.social · 19/10/2024

I miss her so much (The Internet Archive) :( Not only do I have dozens of books saved there as personal faves, it has been an invaluable scholarly resource for me writing papers. I really hope they're ok.

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Laura Helmuth @laurahelmuth.bsky.social · 18/10/2024

Marie Curie didn't necessarily aim to hire women in her lab, but she didn't have anything AGAINST women, and so ended up creating a network of more than 45 women trainees who changed (and are still changing) the course of science. By @clarakm.bsky.social with Dava Sobel on her new book 🧪

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The Untold Story of Marie Curie’s Network of Female Scientists

Marie Curie is well known for her chemistry achievements but less so for helping other women succeed in science

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Deejay @radiojamming.bsky.social · 26/09/2023

My magnum opus.

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Deejay @radiojamming.bsky.social · 21/02/2024

Hi I’m here! Have my mom’s cat with a heated blankie.

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Tom Fournier @tom4141tom.bsky.social · 23/06/2024

Scenes along “cottage lane”

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Kate Watson @loreandordure.com · 23/06/2024

Timeline cleanse: Cornish June edition.

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Mark Crail @markcrail.bsky.social · 23/06/2024

🗃️ #C19th #Chartism Managed to track down Emma Miles in the records. She was a leading light of the City of London Female Chartist Association in the 1840s, and had a quite fascinating life www.chartistancestors.co.uk/emma-miles-1...

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Emma Miles, 1819 - 1877 - chartist ancestors

Emma Miles, 1819-1877, was a member of the City of London Female Chartist Association who emigrated to the United States after marrying fellow Chartist activist Joseph Dunn

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Cassidy Percoco @mimicofmodes.com · 23/06/2024

I've been wanting to make a blog post announcing the new book and discussing some of the problems with Regency Women's Dress for a loooong whiiiiiile ... (With bonus Bonnie pic.) mimicofmodes.com/2024/06/23/1... #FashionHistory

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18th Century Women’s Dress Book!

Everyone! I am incredibly happy to announce that I have signed a contract with Routledge to produce a book of patterns of eighteenth-century women’s garments!

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Kristy Baxter @kbax.bsky.social · 22/06/2024

Summer Apparel That Will Delight the Critical Woman Baltimore Sun June 22 1919

Scheinman's
The Woman's Shop for Values 224 N. Howard St.
Summer Apparel That Will Delight The Critical Woman
What will guide your purchase of a new Summer Dress or Skirt? Style, of course, is the first consideration, then the quality that, too, must be above reproach. But these two are placed quickly in the background when the price becomes prohibitive in your mind. That's why we say our dis- play of Summer Apparel will prove a delight to the critical woman, for nowhere else in Baltimore will she find such styles, such qual- ity, at such remarkably low prices as we offer here. Prove this by a VISIT.
Dresses, $8.75 to $24.75 Skirts, $2.95 to $19.50
Scheinman's

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Shaun @tapedekk.bsky.social · 21/06/2024

Since today is National Indigenous Peoples Day (in Canada), here's a gdrive full of decolonial academia! drive.google.com/drive/folder...

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Academic Texts - Google Drive

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J. Connell Stryker @jconnellstryker.bsky.social · 17/06/2024

Really cool to see this getting discussed in public forums AND contextualized historically! "When doors slammed in their faces, as it did for Lutcavage, women like Hernández crowbarred open windows for themselves." www.goodhousekeeping.com/life/a450519...

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"I'm Not Bad Luck": How I Deal With Sexism on the Open Seas

Throughout history, men have claimed women are bad luck on ocean vessels, something that has hampered seafaring women's careers.

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Shaun @tapedekk.bsky.social · 17/06/2024

WHAT WOMEN WANT (real not clickbait!!): 1) An engagement by moonlight

"An Anglo-French engagement by moonlight" by Francis Swaine (1730-1782)
Oil on canvas, 19 ¾ x 26 ¾ in.

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Tim Strain @tpstrain.bsky.social · 17/06/2024

Hanging with the squad this weekend

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Liesbeth Corens @onslies.bsky.social · 16/06/2024

Today's the anniversary of the Nazis executing Marc Bloch. Or, someone who could sit with uncertainty, champion inquiry & trying to understand, and recognise plurality & perplexity. And, in that knowledge, made the choice not to remain passive. Bloch, Historian’s Craft (MUP, 1992), pp. 64, 119, 160.

his comrades address him with a look of amazement. "extraordinary! You don't even seem to mind this awful uncertainty!" My friend could have answered that, despite the popular prejudice, the mental climate of research is not so unsympathetic to ready acceptance of the lottery of fate.

Even in action, we are far too prone to judge. It is so easy to denounce. WE are never sufficiently understanding. Whoever differs form us -- a foreigner or a political adversary -- is almost inevitably considered evil. A little more understanding of people would be necessary merely for guidance, in the conflicts which are unavoidable; all the more to prevent them while there is yet time. If history would only renounce its false angelic airs, it would help us to cure this weakness. It includes a vast experience of human diversities, a continuous contact with men. Life, like science, has everything to gain from it, if only these contacts be friendly.

This is in all honesty to acknowledge the subordination of the perspectiv to the peculiar angle of the inquiry. Moreover, lt us take care: in history, the fetish of single cause is all too often only the insidious form of search for the responsible person -- hence a value judgment. The judge expresses it as: 'who is right, and who is wrong?' The scholar is content to ask: 'why?' and he accepts the fact that the answer may not be simple. Whether as a prejudice of common sense, a postulate of logicians, or a habit of prosecuting attorneys, the monism of cause can be, for history, only an impediment. History seeks for causal wavetrains and is not afraid, since life shows them to be so, to find them multiple.

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Professor Claire Jowitt @clairejowitt.bsky.social · 15/06/2024

Superb visit #MaryRoseMuseum - always pleased to see poor old Hatch the ship's dog & explore this amazing timecapsule of life at sea in 1545! #navalhistory 🐶 ⚓️

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Dr Lee-Jane Giles @lee-jane.bsky.social · 27/11/2023

Marine officer writing of return to Plymouth after months at sea (1800s): ‘who has not seen soft Plymouth, the gem of the west, & it’s swelling bosom at Mount Edgecumbe, & Cawsand Bay, & the Sound, & it’s deepening beauties down the harbour, & Mount Wise, & it’s merry shore?’

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Dr Cathryn Pearce @cathrynpearce.bsky.social · 05/06/2024

A lovely if brisk day (is it really June?) for a walk on the coastal path. #SussexCoast

Photo from the clifftop overlooking the English Channel. In the foreground tree mallow is in bloom with stalks of purple flowers.

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Shaun @tapedekk.bsky.social · 05/06/2024

Not me being an hour and half drive from Fort Malden and no valid passport. Can't invade Upper Canada these days without a passport. 🥲

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Shaun @tapedekk.bsky.social · 04/06/2024

Man. I've had this discussion with my wife before: "call outs" only work if you ALREADY have a huge platform (which is why so many of them are without substance, bullying someone OP dislikes). No one cares how hot the tea is, unless they need fuel for a pre-existing grudge.

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Mark Crail @markcrail.bsky.social · 04/06/2024

🗃️ #C19 #Chartism On 4 June 1848, Chartist leader Ernest Jones tells a 15,000 strong crowd at Bonner’s Fields in East London, ‘Only organise and you will see the green flag [of Chartism] floating over Downing Street’. He spends the next two years in prison. www.chartistancestors.co.uk/ernest-jones...

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Shaun @tapedekk.bsky.social · 03/06/2024

When u gotta fight the British and Tecumseh's Confederacy at 6 but also get to the discotheque by 8.

Artwork from the Fort Meigs museum, presumably by the same 1970s artist who created drawings of the fort’s construction in 1813.

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Canadian History Ehx @cdnhistoryehx.bsky.social · 02/06/2024

Today is Decoration Day in Canada. It was first celebrated in 1890 to commemorate the Battle of Ridgeway in 1866. It became an annual event to honour Canadian veterans of various conflicts. Since 1931, it has been eclipsed by Remembrance Day as a day to honour veterans.

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