Neil M Kennedy

Awwww!! ❤️❤️❤️

(It’s possible some time has passed since the victory, in the beverage room). #SuiteLife

We won! Trounced those Ontario rascals.

It’s a terrific set of letters, Kyle, barring the officer’s tediously self-regarding liberalism, with good details suggestive of his contacts with Black Bermudians in Hamilton. The captain’s appeal to the High Court of Admiralty is missing from the PRO, sadly. Have a great MA working on this case.

There’s even a little bit in there about Mary Prince’s time in Antigua, that my former PhD student found!

Photo of curling at the national Brier, two matches on for quarter-finals.

Friday night at the Curling Canada Brier, watching Newfoundland v Ontario. Spousal Unit gets good invites. #SuiteLife

Photo of part of an 1827 letter to Rear Admiral Willoughby Lake, squadron commander Bermuda station, from a Royal Navy captain: "There wanted but this additional proof of the manner in which the Spirit of the Law was violated, and of the truth of my information, that by means of surreptitious Clearances, the slave trade from these Islands had been carried on to a considerable extent with the West Indies."

Photo of section of a different letter, 1827: " The triumph of the Slave dealers was complete. It was openly avowed that the traffic in slaves thus mentioned, should be vigorously carried on."

Elders have long argued there was export of enslaved Bermudians between 1807-1834. I've looked for clear archival evidence for several years without success. Today's research: Slave Patrol captain in Bermuda lays out the method and reports on impending voyages to be interdicted. #SlaveryArchive

Photo of part of an 1827 letter to Rear Admiral Willoughby Lake, squadron commander Bermuda station, from a Royal Navy captain: "There wanted but this additional proof of the manner in which the Spirit of the Law was violated, and of the truth of my information, that by means of surreptitious Clearances, the slave trade from these Islands had been carried on to a considerable extent with the West Indies."

Photo of section of a different letter, 1827: " The triumph of the Slave dealers was complete. It was openly avowed that the traffic in slaves thus mentioned, should be vigorously carried on."

Elders have long argued there was export of enslaved Bermudians between 1807-1834. I've looked for clear archival evidence for several years without success. Today's research: Slave Patrol captain in Bermuda lays out the method and reports on impending voyages to be interdicted. #SlaveryArchive

Assistant Professor in Early Modern British History, University of Warwick | MEMOs University of Warwick, United Kingdom

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“War crimes don’t hide sex crimes”

Highway sign in Boston. How can we make this slogan viral?

Ah, yes Arne! And a slave trading voyage to West Africa in a small sloop. They were determined bunch. It’s a lovely place but pricey. The large Azorean community make it a more interesting place than you’d think.

Loyalty compels me to say Bermuda Archives (and they let me wander back in the vault now). Most striking material was probably the illustrated deeds in the French notarial records in Orleans Parish, New Orleans. Pig ran through archive in Nevis once, which was memorable.

We spend so much time telling students: writing IS thinking. I find in some respects it’s almost easier to convey that now in a world of LLMs. (Whether it sticks being another matter.)

Delighted to announce a new H-Environment Roundtable Review! This one features Sureshkumar Muthukumaran's *The Tropical Turn: Agricultural Innovation in the Ancient Middle East and the Mediterranean.* It's the first work of ancient #envhist reviewed in this forum! networks.h-net.org/sites/defaul...

Risible.

Fantastic! Congratulations!

Green-blue-grey blocky soundwaves on background. Centred in black serif lettering “Sonance”, with “journal of early modern sound studies” underneath.

👀 Over the last few months, I’ve been working with the terrific triumvirate @spparkle.bsky.social, @emiliekmmurphy.bsky.social & Hannah Yip to set up “Sonance: A Journal of Early Modern Sound Studies”, a diamond open access journal dedicated to historic sounds in all their wondrous & eclectic forms.

*French Historical Studies* curated collection in homage to Pierre Nora, organized by Avner Ben-Amos. Some good stuff in here, including a 2003 article by @allthebeset.bsky.social 🗃️
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My daughter’s been sending me these all day. She’s no Ansel Adams, I’m afraid. This one’s positively beastly! #DogsofBluesky

Snow fun! #DogsofBluesky

Haha, I thought the same when I saw that yesterday. You did it! I missed that 3mo offer you mentioned so I’m happy for this option.

I'm super happy to say my latest article on Caribbean sinew populations has been published with the International Review of Social History. It is available (open access!) here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

An image with a red banner on top with the text, in white: HLQ | an early modern studies journal. Below is the text: 'The Mysteries of Apalache': Tall Tales and Lost Worlds in the Early American South. Owen Stanwood. ABSTRACT: In 1658, Charles de Rochefort published a description of Apalache, an Indigenous polity located in southeastern North America that had welcomed French and English refugees. Usually dismissed as a tall tale, Rochefort’s account has never been thoroughly analyzed. The story demonstrates how Europeans in the early period of colonization understood America as a place of wonder and inspiration. In addition, one can learn how information (and misinformation) traveled across the Atlantic. Rochefort probably patched his tale together from various oral sources, including some that came from Indigenous Americans. As a result, Rochefort revealed a lost world of stories and shows the myriad ways Europeans tried to make sense of America.

Charles de Rochefort, a Protestant refugee, imagined a Native American utopia called Apalache. Stanwood uncovers the networks of knowledge, rumor, and storytelling that produced this fantastic--but not entirely fictional--place. #earlymodern #hlq

Martin Freeman is in town, filming “Come, Thou Tortoise”. Nice plum for our university grad to get her book turned into a film. #CelebritySightings

Big Yoda the Malamute lying happily on a few feet of snow in our backyard, with his tongue sticking out as though to catch snow flakes.

But where else you gonna get this blep?!?!?

Nice; longest visit was three months archival research. So fun. Got to see Galactic’s Halloween concert tho,💀! I’d recommend Seaworthy oyster bar on Carondelet, we had a fab night there last trip. Rooftop bar at Catahoula Hotel felt like a to be seen at place but was still cool on a beautiful night.

Been a few years for me. Cochon for spicy alligator appetizer and bourbon selection - singles get seats by kitchen with best view. Bar Tonique on Rampart for tiny craft cocktail place (found it by seeing where restaurant staff went to on close). Peche. Bar Marilou. Sigh… jealous!

Haha! Indeed. I dimly recall seeing some funny accounts of disassembled boats being moved across land with people on the timbers pretending to ride the waves, to the annoyance of the bearers. French Canada maybe it was? People!

The trans-Pacific galleons were built largely in Philippines due to superior timber and cheaper labour, coasting vessels for silver route and such were largely built in Acapulco. Mule trains of hundreds of animals for the isthmus, as our worthy colleague noted.