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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

"why don't men wear more color." i only dress for the approval of dogs, who mostly see blue, white, gray, black, and brown in the way that we do, so i don't wear other colors.

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Kristan Tetens @tetens.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

You can take the Pope out of Chicago …

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Chris Levesque @levesque-chris.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Processing a collection of letters written by a US Navy Lieutenant in 1943. They still smell like the cigars he was smoking.

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 28/09/2026

Last month, we refurbished 10 tennis courts in Crotona Park — the only public tennis courts in the Bronx with lights for night play. We stopped by recently to see how things were going. Thank you to NYJTL, USTA and Yonex for helping us deliver high-quality public spaces that New Yorkers deserve.

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Jonty @redjont.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Britain’s slavery wealth wasn’t confined to plantations or port merchants. It helped capitalise the Bank of England & shaped banking, insurance and public finance. The institutions endured, the wealth accumulated, & the enslaved received nothing. Following the money destroys the comforting myths.

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Slave-trade wealth was embedded in Britain’s financial system, research finds

Dozens of Bank of England directors and founding subscribers invested in trafficking of enslaved Africans

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Kristan Tetens @tetens.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

At @benfranklinhouse.bsky.social, countertenor Reginald Mobley and baroque guitar specialist Brandon Acker performed songs by Ignatius Sancho alongside an exhibition telling the stories of Peter and John King, two enslaved Black servants who worked in the house in the 1750s. #thesanchoproject

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Apollo @apollo-magazine.com · 07/09/2026

‘Not many driftwood men become world famous, but these might have.’ At the Louisiana Museum, Damion Searls comes across El Anatsui’s sculpture responding to Denmark’s involvement in the Atlantic slave trade.

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El Anatsui’s haunting driftwood sculptures

A work made by the artist during a residency in Denmark is inspired by the victims of the slave trade between Ghana and the Danish West Indies, writes Damion Searls

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Kristan Tetens @tetens.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Historian's holy grail. Sugar plantation sales records for #StCroix, 1856. See if you can spot my great-great-grandfather. Danish language and palaeography lessons paying off! Thank you, Rigsarkivet, for your invaluable sector-leading digitisation initiatives. 🙏

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kottke.org @kottke.org · 15/07/2026

A complete digital version of The Naturalist’s Library (1833-43), William Jardine’s 40-volume book series on natural history, including restored versions of each of the 1300+ illustrations in the library. Wow. [kottke.org]

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The Naturalist’s Library (1833-43)

Nicholas Rougeux, whose work I have featured here before, has published a complete digital edition of William Jardine’s 40-volume book series on natural history published in the early-to-mid 19th-century. As part of the

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Kristan Tetens @tetens.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Another Spirit of ’76: George Washington’s Whiskey www.nytimes.com/2026/06/24/d...

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Another Spirit of ’76: George Washington’s Whiskey

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Kristan Tetens @tetens.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

This Baker’s Business Is Booming (and It’s Not Just Because of the Cannon Fire) www.nytimes.com/2026/06/29/d...

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This Baker’s Business Is Booming (and It’s Not Just Because of the Cannon Fire)

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Karin Wulf @kawulf.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Mercy Otis Warren, wealthy and white, and Elizabeth Freeman, Black and enslaved, both of Massachusetts, assessed and articulated freedom beyond constraints and expectations. So many histories of women differently situated can tell us about revolution-- glad for these. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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The Enslaved Woman Who Sued for Freedom and Emancipated Herself (Gift Article)

For the 250th anniversary, The Times Magazine asked leading historians to profile founding-era Americans whose roles in the drama have been often overlooked.

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Kristan Tetens @tetens.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Lloyd’s of London has commissioned a requiem mass from Manchester-based composer David Önaçto to memorialise the lives of enslaved Africans, with a libretto drawn from the Catholic requiem mass, documents in Lloyd’s own archive, and eighteenth-century legal testimony.

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Lloyd’s acknowledges historic role in slave trade with ne...

The commission is the company’s latest effort to recognise its involvement in insuring ships and slave owners, but such gestures also draw criticism

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Kristan Tetens @tetens.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

A Scandinavian Answer to John Singer Sargent Gets Her Due www.nytimes.com/2026/06/20/a...

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A Scandinavian Answer to John Singer Sargent Gets Her Due

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Kristan Tetens @tetens.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

See How These Artisans Are Recreating the Revolution www.nytimes.com/2026/06/16/t...

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See How These Artisans Are Recreating the Revolution

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Kristan Tetens @tetens.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Retracing a War Hero’s Audacious Trek Across the Wilderness www.nytimes.com/2026/05/07/t...

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Retracing a War Hero’s Audacious Trek Across the Wilderness

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PBS News @pbsnews.org · 12/03/2026

The National Museum of African American History and Culture says a timber piece of the slave ship, the São José-Paquete de Africa, on display in its "Slavery and Freedom" exhibit, will soon be prepared for a trip back to its home museum in South Africa. to.pbs.org/46R6r0M

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AP report: Slave ship artifact will soon leave the Smithsonian to return to its South African home

A Smithsonian museum exhibit about the maritime journey that millions of Africans were forced to take across the Atlantic to slavery in the Americas will change later this month, when a remnant from o...

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Caribbean Digital Scholarship Collective @caribbeandsc.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

What happens when scholars, librarians, and historians collaborate across borders to make Caribbean knowledge accessible? Read Cross-Boundary Digital Collaboration as Scholarly and Institutional Experimentation to find out. #cdsc #articlespotlight

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In The Same Sea @inthesamesea.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

IN THE SAME SEA's team and Dr. Joy Lewis have guest-edited the special issue “Small Islands, Proximity and Connection in the Eastern Caribbean” of the Journal of Caribbean History. See: www.uwipress.com/journals/the... Thanks to all contributors and the journal’s main editor Kathleen Monteith.

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Journal of Caribbean History | University of the West Indies Press

The Journal of Caribbean History (JCH) is a peer reviewed journal produced by the Departments of History, The University of the West Indies, and published by the University of the West Indies Press. T...

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Kirkdale Bookshop @kirkdalebooks.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

Just one excellent bit from this brilliant book concerns the main character hanging out at Persepolis, one of the first Europeans to do so... www.nyrb.com/products/ara...

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Arabia Felix

Arabia Felix is the spellbinding true story of a scientific expedition gone disastrously awry. On a winter morning in 1761 six men leave Copenhagen by sea—a botanist, a philologist, an astronomer, a d...

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The Prize Papers Project @prizepapers.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

Want to learn more about the spectacular find on the Danish cargo ship Anne-Marie? Sign up for an exciting roundtable with researchers from the Faroe Islands here: www.eventbrite.com/e/ships-seaf... #skystorians #19thcentury #earlymodern #maritimehistory

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Kristan Tetens @tetens.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

“… Hearing of the many occupations of a single family may have allowed our grandchildren to feel more understanding of turmoil, and of difference, thanks to the great roiling mixture that has defined our country from the start.” #genealogy www.nytimes.com/2026/02/15/o...

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Opinion | What It Means to Hold Someone’s Attention With a Story

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Richard Ovenden @richove.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

Extremely interesting case relating to responsibilities for providing access to colonial archives that have a significant commercial relevance ... giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

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Belgian museum caught in row over trove of DR Congo mineral records

KoBold Metals and DR Congo are pushing a Brussels museum to release records that would help map valuable metals

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Steven Nelson @snelsonus.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

If Bad Bunny can cover the history of Puerto Rico, colonialism, transatlantic slavery, hemispheric consciousness, as well as contemporary life and politics in under 14 minutes, you can do your 15- or 20-minute conference presentation with time to spare.

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Alan Lester @alanlester.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

The Church of England is developing a reparative justice scheme in recognition of its complicity in trans-Atlantic slavery. Project Spire has been attacked in Parliament and the right wing press with claims of flawed historical research. What’s the truth? alanlester.co.uk/blog/the-arg...

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The Argument About Project Spire and the Real History of the Church of England as an Enslaver

Alan Lester Immediately before and after the Black Lives Matter protests in 2020, a number of prominent British organisations assessed their entanglements with slavery and its afterlives. They incl…

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Rob Taber @robtaber.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

This halftime brought to you by the arts and humanities.

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Joseph M. Pierce @pepepierce.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

If you were hoping for some sort of overt political statement: see the literal plantation Benito created to perform in.

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Kristan Tetens @tetens.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

Richards looks like a nineteenth-century assassin. #UniversityChallenge

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

Some important new government policy that Native Americans might be interested in:

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Brooke Newman @brookenewman.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

“A work of historical reclamation—one that refuses to let the British monarchy remain peripheral in the story of the transatlantic slave trade. The result is a long-overdue & unflinching history of the Crown’s complicity & active participation in the slave trade.” open.substack.com/pub/jonathan...

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Royal Silence, Archival Voice: A Review of Brooke N. Newman's "The Crown's Silence"

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Index on Censorship @indexoncensorship.org · 24/11/2025

"It is the paradox of dictatorships that they are enormously powerful and yet fear they can be undone by verse." Thank you @theobserveruk.bsky.social for writing about #MohamedTadjadit, the poet unjustly imprisoned in #Algeria for his work. We continue our call for his immediate release.

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PBS News @pbsnews.org · 10/11/2025

Protesters in Nigeria have disrupted this week’s opening of a major museum of West African art, where local disputes over the world-renowned Benin Bronzes have already kept them from being put on display. to.pbs.org/43klMFo

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Protesters disrupt opening of major West African art museum in Nigeria

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Princeton University Press @princetonupress.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

"Fine-grained...[and] painstakingly researched." Read @alanlester.bsky.social's review of Roquinaldo Ferreira's Worlds of Unfreedom in @historytoday.com: www.historytoday.com/archive/revi...

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‘The Heretic of Cacheu’ and ‘Worlds of Unfreedom’ review

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Kristan Tetens @tetens.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

A glowing review of Miranda Kaufmann’s ‘Heiresses: Marriage, Inheritance and Caribbean Slavery,’ a study that, among other things, considers “Britons’ (continuing) failure to appreciate how much of their affluence was (and still is) based on the suffering of distant others.”

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Carlsbergfondet @carlsbergfondet.dk · 03/10/2025

”Mennesker flygtede ikke kun ud af Caribien for at opnå frihed, men også til andre caribiske øer, hvor forholdene måske blev anset for mere tålelige.” 🎙️Hør podcasten 'Caribiens skjulte forbindelser' med #MånedensForsker Gunvor Simonsen 👉 bit.ly/podcast_gunvor #dkforsk

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LRB Bookshop @londonreviewbookshop.co.uk · 17/09/2025

LONDON PUBS NAMED AFTER DIFFERENT NUMBERS OF BELLS. an investigation

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The Librarians Film @thelibrariansfilm.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

As book banning sweeps across the U.S. at an unprecedented rate, brave librarians emerge as first responders in the fight for democracy. A film by Kim A. Snyder. Opens UK 9/26 @berthadochouse.bsky.social, US 10/03 @filmforumnyc.bsky.social, rollout to follow. Tix: TheLibrariansFilm.com/screenings

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

No film gets historians right, but that's only because no audience wants to watch someone quietly work their way through a cardboard box of old papers, in total silence, for eight straight hours.

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