Daniel Woolf πŸ‡¨πŸ‡¦
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Daniel Woolf πŸ‡¨πŸ‡¦
@woolf-atthedoor.bsky.social

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%

Also 2 tracks that imho should have been in the jazz vocal category but weren't: Cdn nominee for best trad pop vocal, @lailabiali.bsky.social and the winner, Icelandic breakout star @dailylaufey.bsky.social. Congrats to all winners and nominees. We'll start our Juno nominee '26 series in 2 weeks.

On @cfrcradio.bsky.social Dark Glasses today at 2, we run through (most of) last week's Grammy winners in the jazz categories. Featured: Justin Gray; Samara Joy, Christian McBride (x 2!), and Sullivan Fortner.

If ever there were any doubt before, then Trump's deranged and racist Obama video and his attempt to extort Chuck Schumer's support for renaming Penn Stn and Dulles Airport after him should seal the deal: this man is seriously ill and belongs in a white jacket and rubber room, not a White House.

Our Backyard dog snow-run that originally started as a single path ( a way for our hound Layla to attend to business) but was expanded by our awesome dog sitter into this full zoomies loop.

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Terror state Russia weaponizes winter | The Kingston Whig Standard
Terror state Russia weaponizes winter
Russia is a terror state, inflicting death and suffering on ordinary Ukrainians in hopes of breaking their iron will.
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"My name is Layla and I approve of this skeet".
Kayleigh: My mom went to see Melania. She said the theater was packed, it was standing room only. People were cheering through it, they were excited. It was interactiveβ€”people interplaying with the film. She said it was just electric.

"I've got sunshine on a cloudy day
When it's cold outside, I've got the month of May
I guess you'd say
What can make me feel this way?
My girl, my girl, my girl
Talkin' 'bout my girl, my girl..."

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Feeling Prickly?

πŸ¦” Which Renaissance Hedgehog are you today? πŸ¦”
(It's #NationalHedgehogDay somewhere... ie the UK.) Also #GroundhogDay

Today on @cfrcradio.bsky.social Dark Glasses we salute Groundhog Day with music from the 1993 film, the 2016 musical, and other related tracks from Canada's Audrey Ochoa, UB 40, Melanie, Big Sugar, Frankie Yankovic (yes, a polka on Dark Glasses!) and more. Tune in at 2 EST.

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β€œSo you are a historian? What is your field of expertise?”

β€œThe long January of 2026.”

β€œAll of it, really?” #skystorians

Welcoming the latest k-9 addition to the extended Woolf family; my son Sam and his wife Christie have just taken in this big boy, Memphis (left) who is now adoptive cousin to his sister's dog Rudi (ctr) and I guess both are nephews of our girl Layla (right).

One of my other subjects in the lecture!

Yes, it's lovely when that happens--when a student is interested enough to follow up and really puts the time in to prep.

Yeah it's funny. Explaining the difference between Quarter Sessions and Assizes, and manor vs borough courts had them in rapt attention. That's even before we got to the ecclesiastical side.

A student was sick and missed my lecture on Tudor local administration (scintillating!) He asked to meet by zoom to see what he missed. I worried I might have to summarize the whole lecture, but he read the text readings and the slides in advance and came in with very precise questions. Impressive.

aw, thanks. Should be ok in a couple of weeks they say.

Our hound mix, Layla, has been diagnosed with anaplasmosis causing anemia; the Rx for it is a 4 week course of a drug called doxycycline, which in my defective hearing came through as "doggsycycling". Which somehow makes more sense.

A propos of nothing other than the weather outside is frightful and the world situation far from delightful, I present 2 random pictures of our dog thoroughly enjoying her afternoon. You’re welcome.

Found near the same site as the remains of "Shropshire Blue Woman".
As a specialist in British Bronze Age lithics, i am happy to confirm this identification
Is it about time that someone told @wiltshiremuseum.bsky.social that their "Tourmaline stone axe" is actually made of cheese?

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As a specialist in British Bronze Age lithics, i am happy to confirm this identification
Is it about time that someone told @wiltshiremuseum.bsky.social that their "Tourmaline stone axe" is actually made of cheese?

Prof. Maria Grever's recent Cambridge Element "Contested Public Monuments" doi.org/10.1017/9781... was the subject of a highly engaged Amsterdam seminar this past Friday, sponsored by NL-Lab. Check it out on the @universitypress.cambridge.org Elements site. www.cambridge.org/core/publica...

As if shooting your dog and bragging about it weren’t enough of an indicator of psychopathy. But in Trump’s world it is table stakes.
Kristi Noem is an absolute disgrace. Tell your representatives in Congress it’s time to impeach!
Tell Congress: Impeach DHS Secretary Kristi Noem
Contact Congress today!
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One of the best things I’ve read in a while:

It can and is.
Kristi Noem is an absolute disgrace. Tell your representatives in Congress it’s time to impeach!
Tell Congress: Impeach DHS Secretary Kristi Noem
Contact Congress today!
actionnetwork.org

Coming Feb. 20 in @universitypress.cambridge.org Elements in Historical Theory and Practice series, Thomas Moynihan's "The History of Contingency and Future-Oriented Thought". Video abstract here: vimeo.com/1148027422?f...
Elements in Historical Theory and Practice : The History of Contingency and Future-Oriented Thought
The History of Contingency and Future-Oriented Thought The future is contingent. It can unfold differently, hinging on chance or choice within the present. This…
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One of those clubs, to misquote Groucho Marx, that you don't want to join if its founder wants you as a member.
Well that saved us $1 billion, which will buy us 11 Gripen fighters.