In an unprecedented decision, executives at The Boston Globe determined that the conditions during Monday’s blizzard made it impossible to print and deliver a paper Tuesday morning.
Wow! Officially the biggest snowstorm in RI history. Providence will make a run at 40 inches
Pic of snowy street at night
Pic of snowy street at night
Pic of some buildings in the snow
Pic of snowy street at night
Went for a quick walk to monitor the snow situation. Providence downtown looking more peaceful and serene than ever
Screenshot of an email subject line saying “CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST POSTPONED TO TUESDAY 2/24” in all caps.
This is when the storm became real for me
Inside cover of Jonathan Eacott’s book “Selling Empire: India in the Making of Britain and America, 1600-1830.”
Really enjoying this so far. The archival depth and richness of this book is extraordinary.
on advance access: "Tibetan Gift-Giving, British Indifference, and the Erasure of Provenance in Colonial India"
by @tibetcurator.bsky.social (@uomsalc.bsky.social)
#OpenAccess
doi.org/10.1093/past...
I could be taking a subway to work! 😭
First British Royal arrest since Charles I in 1647! www.independent.co.uk/bulletin/new...
Grateful to the Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences journal and Melissa Baldwin and Dominik Huenniger for including my reflections on the methods & practices that I used to write my first monograph as part of their new special issue, "Historical Practice," on the many ways to be a historian.
This has probably already been done, but someone could do a great STS dissertation on debates about Ramadan moon sighting and what they reveal about popular understandings of nature, astronomical phenomena, empiricism, what counts as scientific evidence etc.
Happy lunar Ramadan new year Lent Mubarak! 🌙🧧🎉
📣Out now on #firstview!
Molly Groarke (@mollygroarke.bsky.social) (@camhistory.bsky.social) on 'Imperial Family Biographies and New Approaches to the Family in Histories of the British Empire, c.1650–c.1950'
#Empire #Family #Personal #Review 📜🗃️
👉Read open access: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Cover of an edition of The Prince depicting an animated drawing of Machiavelli
Love this new edition of The Prince with a very sassy looking Machiavelli
In the forum on political economy, Jonathon Catlin asks what a public debate about the Frankfurt School's legacy among prominent former students of Martin Jay—the "Berkeley School"—tells us about the future relationship between political economy and intellectual history.
@joncatlin.bsky.social
Cricket and the India-Pakistan Rivalry
@karachikhatmal.bsky.social joins to talk CRICKET, including the sport's colonial history and recent events in the world's most heated rivalry.
We had A LOT of fun with this one, with something for novices and experts alike.
open.spotify.com/episode/3SZ4...
The cover of Natan Last’s “Across the Universe: The Past, Present, and Future of the Crossword Puzzle.”
Inside cover of the same book, signed by the author.
Really enjoying Natan Last’s fantastic book on the crossword puzzle, which he was kind enough to sign for me
Getting oddly emotional watching London’s new year’s eve fireworks. Greatest city to ever do it. Missing it so much www.youtube.com/live/FuzyX3q...
Stack of 11 used books mostly on English and European history.
All of this for $6.50! (from the Rochambeau Library book sale in Providence, on until tomorrow!)
I do the think though that connecting the Zong case to the eventual abolition of slavery in the British empire is a bit unconvincing to me, but I’ve only just started the book.
Photo showing the book cover of Siddharth Kara’s “The Zorg: A Tale of Greed and Murder that Inspired the Abolition of Slavery”
Riveting new book on the Zong massacre that adds a wealth of new archival detail (starting with the fact that the ship was named Zorg, and not Zong, but early commenters apparently misread the r as n).
Come join me for a virtual book talk at the American Antiquarian Society next Tuesday 9/23 at 7pm. Book talk will be followed by Q&A with Mark Peterson and the audience.
www.americanantiquarian.org/node/13335
This is a fantastic database of Dutch West India Company employees in the seventeenth century (1635-1664) - 168 entries for people from Hamburg alone 👇
I visited Pakistan a couple of years ago, and so many people I met there would immediately bring up Judge Frank whenever I mentioned that I lived in Providence. The man had a huge global audience, and his kindness and compassion was universally beloved. RIP.
Fascinating article on a newly discovered Locke manuscript www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Will of Thomas Nash
Will of Thomas Nash, 1642
I found an original copy of the 1642 will of Thomas Nash (Shakespeare's grandson-in-law) at The National Archives yesterday.* Yes, I'm biased, but archives are incredibly cool.
*Actually found, the item has no description on the catalogue, which is why I was looking through the box.
Paradise Lost, Lycidas, Paradise Regained
I have a new paper in History of Political Economy that is now available to read for free online. It's about what we can and can't learn from studying – and criticizing – economics using the methods of the history of science. read.dukeupress.edu/hope/article...
