📢Out now on #firstview! Bethany Rebisz (@BRebisz) (Historians @ Bristol) on 'Mapping Women’s Memories of Britain’s Forced Resettlement Scheme in Late Colonial Kenya, c. 1953–1960' #Colonialism #Kenya #20thc #OralHistory 🇰🇪 👉Read online here: cambridge.org/core/journals/…

Incredible discovery by archeologist and #UWaterloo researcher, Douglas Stenton. UWaterloo Arts

Another great Waterloo Sunset [with apologies to The Kinks]

Bluejay not impressed by the fringes of Hurricane Helene

Wood ducks for some Saturday relief

Khalidi's next book will be on how Ireland served as a colonial laboratory for Palestine. Yes. “It is astonishing how personnel and counter-insurgency techniques, like torture, assassination, find their roots with the British in Ireland,” Khalidi says. theguardian.com/world/ng-inter…

From the inimitable NZD + ⁦Stefan Hanß⁩ this posthumously published article in The Historical Journal is a testament to Natalie’s courage, the creativity of the historian’s critical independent mind, and its power to contest totalitarian tendencies. sites.manchester.ac.uk/bodies-emotion…

Add "uninvited talks" to your academic CV - when you shared your research with a person against their will

Academia isn’t about fame, or money, or approval. It’s about downloading as many pdfs as you can before you die

a very belated #featheredFriday for a Canadian long weekend - a yellow rumped warbler striking a unique pose

Happy Thanksgiving all

a tufted titmouse for a belated #featheredfriday

Nuthatches

Nobel prize winning economists make for very poor historians, says FT: “Economists are socialised to look down on the rest the social sciences as unserious, but it’s a funny ol’ thing when you reach the end of numbers and bang into an institution. You need new tools, exactly

Who did this? 😂😂😂😂

white breasted nuthatch to wind up the year. Wishing all a healthy and happy 2025 and I will hopefully see some of you on the other site

Bapsi Sidhwa (1938-2024), one of Pakistan’s most acclaimed novelists, has passed away. Born in 1938 in Karachi, Sidhwa grew up in Lahore, where her experience of Partition in 1947 shaped her writing mypluralist.com/2023/09/20/pak…

Please enjoy this holiday Bonus Cartoon!