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Daniel Woolf πŸ‡¨πŸ‡¦
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History professor & Principal Emeritus, Queen's University. Interests include historiography/theory, and early modern Britain. Also woolfd1958 on 'Threads'. Dog servant to Layla and occasional practitioner of several hobbies; part time radio show host. .. more

Daniel Robert Woolf is a British-Canadian historian and former university administrator. He served as the 20th Principal and Vice-Chancellor of Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, Canada, a position to which he was appointed in January 2009 and took up on 1 September 2009. He was previously a professor of history and the Dean of the Faculty of Arts at the University of Alberta. He was reappointed to a second 5-year term in 2013. In late 2017, Woolf announced his intention not to serve a third term and to retire from university administration at the end of his second term in 2019. He was succeeded by Patrick Deane, and became Principal Emeritus. .. more

History 42%
Political science 18%

Born OTD 100 years ago, actor Richard Burton (d 1984). As well known for his tempestuous private life as for his performances. Some of his many notable roles include The Robe, Where Eagles Dare, Becket, and The Spy who Came in from the Cold.

In the rest of the show we will have mainly jazz as usual, with new tracks from Lisa Hilton, rising Cdn bassist Aretha Tillotson, & Germany's WDR Big Band. Rounding out the hour with some classic Dave Brubeck and the late Jack DeJohnette. Tune in!

OTD 50 years ago the Great Lakes Freighter Edmund Fitzgerald foundered and sank with all 29 crew lost; Gordon Lightfoot immortalized the tragedy in his 1976 song The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald, two versions of which are featured on today's @cfrcradio.bsky.social Dark Glasses at 2 pm.

welcome to Canada Amanda!
Loving today's news that the mysterious "fedora man" outside the Louvre heist was actually a 15-year-old museum visitor who dresses like a 1940s French detective all the time, just because. apnews.com/article/louv...
Fedora man unmasked: Meet the teen behind the Louvre mystery photo
Fifteen-year-old Pedro Elias Garzon Delvaux has become an internet sensation after an Associated Press photo captured him outside the Louvre on the day of a crown jewels heist.
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Two students from my rather good 4th year seminar (where we are doing a role play about statues and naming controversies) just Bcced me on their in-role emails as a concerned board member and the university head of advancement. If I didn't know better I'd swear they were pros!

Awesome ! The coolest Tudor.

Born OTD 100 years ago, American actress Doris Roberts (d 2016); best known for tv roles on Remington Steele and, latterly, Everybody Loves Raymond. In a 7-decade career she earned 5 Emmy Awards.

RIP Diane Ladd. A long career as far back as the 50s and some bravura performances such as in Alice Doesn't Live here Anymore. I once saw 24 year old Ladd in a 1958 episode of the classic tv cop show "Naked City" and was staggered how much she resembled her daughter Laura Dern at that age.

On today's @cfrcradio.bsky.social Dark Glasses at 2 EST, we pay tributes to 2 departed jazz giants, electric bassist Anthony Jackson and drummer Jack de Johnette. Plus Oscar Peterson, a long track from Miles Davis's classic Bitches Brew, and new music from Ontario roots musician Kate Weekes.Tune in!

7."Thinking Traumatic Histories"-Zachary Riebeling
8. "Histories of Madness"-David Wright

full list of titles at www.cambridge.org/core/publica...
Elements in Historical Theory and Practice series
Welcome to Cambridge Core
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4."Myths, History Wars, and Indigenous-Settler Relations in Canada and Other Settler States"-David MacDonald
5. "Race, Genetics and History"-Alexandra P. Alberda, Njabulo Chipangura, Lara Choksey, Jerome de Groot, Maya Sharma
6."Reparations and Redress for Historical Injustice"-Timothy Waligore

[thread] Some upcoming titles in the @universitypress.cambridge.org series Elements in Historical Theory and Practice:
1."Knowledge and Narrative"-Chiel van den Akker.
2."The History of Contingency and Future Oriented Thought"-Thomas Moynihan.
3."Gender, Theory and History"-Maria Ines La Greca

Left: the Artist Formerly Known as Prince
Right: the Prince Formerly Known as Prince

Some major Grant roles: In the Heat of the Night; Shampoo (50 years ago) for which she won Best supporting actress Oscar; had a short-lived TV series, Fay, in '75-6. My favourite Grant role: wife of doomed astronaut in '69 film Marooned, a film that eerily predicted the Apollo 13 mission.

Happy 100th birthday to actress/director Lee Grant (nΓ©e Lyova Haskell Rosenthal) whose long career saw her in film, theatre and TV from 1951 to 2020 (career interrupted for 12 years by refusing to name names to HUAC). 1/2

The Department of History at Queen’s University seeks a postdoctoral fellow to start July 1, 2026. Applications are due on January 15, 2026 for the Marjorie McLean Oliver Post-Doctoral Fellowship. The full position description can be found here: www.queensu.ca/history/abou...
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Congratulations to @kreskildsen.bsky.social on the publication of his @universitypress.cambridge.org THINGS OF THE PAST: a modern yearning, in the Elements in Historical Theory and Practice series. Free to download till 13 November at DOI: 10.1017/9781009342988. www.cambridge.org/core/element...
Things of the Past
Cambridge Core - Global History - Things of the Past
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Born OTD 100 years ago, British actor Robert Hardy (d 2017). Familiar to Millennials from Harry Potter films, his varied roles included Leicester in Elizabeth R, Prince Albert in Edward VII, Churchill, FDR and perhaps most belovedly, vet Siegfried Farnon in 70s series All Creatures Great and Small.

BOO! It's Hallowe'en Week and time for the annual scary music themed episode of Dark Glasses on @cfrcradio.bsky.social at 2. Tunes from Lennie Tristano, Bill Evans, Lou Donaldson, Ahmad Jamal, Philly Joe Jones, Jackie McLean, plus Canadian acts Jane Bunnett, and Murley Bickert and Wallace. Tune in!
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a great and wise man, much missed.

It is catchy.

Reposted by Daniel Woolf

3 years later and I'd like to stress this:

Orderly progression, cumulative development, incremental improvement. These concepts are not to be confused with the concept of progress. They carry none of the temporal expectations and moral assumptions that progress carries 1/2
Progress and the Scale of History
Cambridge Core - Global History - Progress and the Scale of History
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Born OTD 100 years ago, legendary late night host Johnny Carson (d 2005). A show biz career that started in the US Navy in World War II finished up with 3 decades of hosting The Tonight Show.

It certainly is. At the surprise presentation of this I joked that my career trajectory could have been quite different if I'd received it back then--I might have become a Canadianist.

I'm delighted to welcome another title to the CUP @universitypress.cambridge.org series Elements in Historical Theory and Practice. Maria Grever, Contested Public Monuments. doi.org/10.1017/9781.... This is available for free download till Nov 5 2025.
Contested Public Monuments
Cambridge Core - Global History - Contested Public Monuments
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Prof Lower was a leading Canadian historian born in 1889 and very old when our correspondence took place. Why I recount this story is because of the aftermath. I never actually got the book until yesterday, 2 degrees, a full career and 47 years later. Better late than never !

In 1978 as a 2nd year undergraduate at my current institution I received a letter indicating that I was awarded a book prize in Canadian history named for the gent below and from his private library. I duly wrote a sincere thank you letter. 1/2

Great! Those proxies are a mixed blessing.

Just heard Prof. Donald Wright giving the 43rd annual Archives Lecture at Queen's, on his many forays through the fonds of A.R.M. Lower, the distinguished Canadian historian of the early to mid 20th century. A great talk, with some good questions from students in my 4th year historiography seminar.