Neil M Kennedy
@nmkennedy.bsky.social
Historian and archaeologist of the early modern Atlantic World, specializing in Bermuda, slavery and the slave trade, maritime history, maritime emancipation, Caribbean history, sensory history. Dept of History, Memorial University, Newfoundland.
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Neil M Kennedy
@nmkennedy.bsky.social
· Oct 11
There are no neutral positions. There are no neutral positions. There are no neutral positions.
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We are hiring! Please share!
Canadian Excellence Research Chair in Comparative Democratic Resilience in the Global South
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Note we are working with a very tight deadline
Canadian Excellence Research Chair in Comparative Democratic Resilience in the Global South
careers.mun.ca/hss/api/care...
@memorialu.bsky.social
Note we are working with a very tight deadline
careers.mun.ca
November 14, 2025 at 3:20 PM
We are hiring! Please share!
Canadian Excellence Research Chair in Comparative Democratic Resilience in the Global South
careers.mun.ca/hss/api/care...
@memorialu.bsky.social
Note we are working with a very tight deadline
Canadian Excellence Research Chair in Comparative Democratic Resilience in the Global South
careers.mun.ca/hss/api/care...
@memorialu.bsky.social
Note we are working with a very tight deadline
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‘Of all the violent phases in the history of Liverpool, the slave trade was the most vicious, yet it was barely acknowledged until recently.’
John Kerrigan on Liverpool, the Atlantic slave trade and m. nourbeSe philip’s long poem 𝘡𝘰𝘯𝘨!
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John Kerrigan on Liverpool, the Atlantic slave trade and m. nourbeSe philip’s long poem 𝘡𝘰𝘯𝘨!
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
John Kerrigan · No Illusions: Syntax of Slavery
Slavery was accepted across most of the early modern world. No one wanted to be a slave, except when the alternative was...
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November 12, 2025 at 8:16 PM
‘Of all the violent phases in the history of Liverpool, the slave trade was the most vicious, yet it was barely acknowledged until recently.’
John Kerrigan on Liverpool, the Atlantic slave trade and m. nourbeSe philip’s long poem 𝘡𝘰𝘯𝘨!
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
John Kerrigan on Liverpool, the Atlantic slave trade and m. nourbeSe philip’s long poem 𝘡𝘰𝘯𝘨!
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Excellent article from two outstanding scholars of resource extraction in Canada.
www.theglobeandmail.com/business/com...
www.theglobeandmail.com/business/com...
Opinion: As Carney pushes major projects, he must heed a cautionary tale from Canada’s past
No doubt there is room to streamline approval processes, but there must be enough rigour so future developments don’t leave behind environmental liabilities
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November 13, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Excellent article from two outstanding scholars of resource extraction in Canada.
www.theglobeandmail.com/business/com...
www.theglobeandmail.com/business/com...
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Missed the Challenging Maps and Exploration Symposium? Don’t worry, the videos of the panels are now live!
Enjoy all the discussions of #maps, #empire, Indigeneity, archives, and contemporary exploration. #skystorians 🗃️
Enjoy all the discussions of #maps, #empire, Indigeneity, archives, and contemporary exploration. #skystorians 🗃️
Sunderland Collection Map Symposium at RGS - 30 October
The Sunderland Collection Symposium at the Royal Geographical Society, 30 October 2025
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November 12, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Missed the Challenging Maps and Exploration Symposium? Don’t worry, the videos of the panels are now live!
Enjoy all the discussions of #maps, #empire, Indigeneity, archives, and contemporary exploration. #skystorians 🗃️
Enjoy all the discussions of #maps, #empire, Indigeneity, archives, and contemporary exploration. #skystorians 🗃️
Highly recommend! Commission some original artwork, you cowards!
Okay. So. If you commission an art piece from me in the next few days, and pay at least a deposit up front (let's say 50% deposit), I will guarantee you that I'll get it done by Christmas (or your December date of choice) genuinesnips.art/commissions/
Commissions
If you want to commission a cut-paper artwork: Pitch me a subject, backing size, and eventually a price range. Here’s how this goes: Subject Something like “A view of this ship that I c…
genuinesnips.art
November 8, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Highly recommend! Commission some original artwork, you cowards!
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Have you heard of the 1690 Siege of Limerick? Join us for a roundtable with the authors of a new book on this significant event in Irish history: Monday, 3pm CET, 2pm UK, 9am EST! @janeohlmeyer.bsky.social joins authors Tom Truxes and John Shovlin to discuss the book! #IrishHistory #EarlyModern 🗃️
November 8, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Have you heard of the 1690 Siege of Limerick? Join us for a roundtable with the authors of a new book on this significant event in Irish history: Monday, 3pm CET, 2pm UK, 9am EST! @janeohlmeyer.bsky.social joins authors Tom Truxes and John Shovlin to discuss the book! #IrishHistory #EarlyModern 🗃️
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Un grand merci à l’équipe de @polrightsrev.bsky.social
pour la publication de cet article sur *Secular Sensibilities* en français (et en espagnol) !
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Pour toute commande du livre via @uncpress.bsky.social, le code 01SOCIAL30 vous offre 30 % de réduction. Merci!
pour la publication de cet article sur *Secular Sensibilities* en français (et en espagnol) !
politicsrights.com/fr/laiques-p...
Pour toute commande du livre via @uncpress.bsky.social, le code 01SOCIAL30 vous offre 30 % de réduction. Merci!
November 6, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Un grand merci à l’équipe de @polrightsrev.bsky.social
pour la publication de cet article sur *Secular Sensibilities* en français (et en espagnol) !
politicsrights.com/fr/laiques-p...
Pour toute commande du livre via @uncpress.bsky.social, le code 01SOCIAL30 vous offre 30 % de réduction. Merci!
pour la publication de cet article sur *Secular Sensibilities* en français (et en espagnol) !
politicsrights.com/fr/laiques-p...
Pour toute commande du livre via @uncpress.bsky.social, le code 01SOCIAL30 vous offre 30 % de réduction. Merci!
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I'm thrilled to see that the special issue of ECS, "Eighteenth-Century Coasts," is finally out today! Check out my essay on coral, and many other fantastic contributions: muse.jhu.edu/issue/55889
Project MUSE - Eighteenth-Century Studies-Volume 59, Number 1, Fall 2025
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November 5, 2025 at 4:36 PM
I'm thrilled to see that the special issue of ECS, "Eighteenth-Century Coasts," is finally out today! Check out my essay on coral, and many other fantastic contributions: muse.jhu.edu/issue/55889
Stamp out and eliminate redundancy!
November 5, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Stamp out and eliminate redundancy!
@ruralcolonialns.bsky.social Have you heard Devon Church's "Fall Like Lightning"? Think you'd dig it. As a critique of the attention economy it reminds me a little of some Radiohead and Nick Cave, but a little of Tom Wait's "Step Right Up" somehow too.
Fall Like Lightning, by Devon Church
from the album All That's Solid Melts Into Air
devonchurch.bandcamp.com
November 5, 2025 at 12:52 AM
@ruralcolonialns.bsky.social Have you heard Devon Church's "Fall Like Lightning"? Think you'd dig it. As a critique of the attention economy it reminds me a little of some Radiohead and Nick Cave, but a little of Tom Wait's "Step Right Up" somehow too.
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A woman formerly enslaved in Virginia is the subject of a new monument in a town in England to where she escaped. I’ve lived in Virginia for years and never heard her story. This is the kind of memory culture we need. www.northshields800.com/news/mary-an...
Mary Ann Macham: Sculpture of escaped enslaved woman’s moment of freedom takes shape in North Shields — North Shields 800
Created by artist Keith Barrett, Mary Ann has been carved from wood and is about to be cast in bronze ahead of her installation at the top of the town’s spectacular Riverside Embankment Walkway later ...
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November 4, 2025 at 10:58 PM
A woman formerly enslaved in Virginia is the subject of a new monument in a town in England to where she escaped. I’ve lived in Virginia for years and never heard her story. This is the kind of memory culture we need. www.northshields800.com/news/mary-an...
Currently 90km/hr winds here in the city, with 115 expected tonight. Peak of 152km/hr two hours away down the coast. Blowing a hoolie, as we Scots would say.
November 4, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Currently 90km/hr winds here in the city, with 115 expected tonight. Peak of 152km/hr two hours away down the coast. Blowing a hoolie, as we Scots would say.
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The Deepest Dye
Obeah, Hosay, and Race in the Atlantic World www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...
Obeah, Hosay, and Race in the Atlantic World www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...
November 4, 2025 at 1:50 PM
The Deepest Dye
Obeah, Hosay, and Race in the Atlantic World www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...
Obeah, Hosay, and Race in the Atlantic World www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...
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Lost grave of daughter of Black abolitionist Olaudah Equiano found by A-level student
Lost grave of daughter of Black abolitionist Olaudah Equiano found by A-level student
Fitzwilliam Museum has uncovered student’s work from 1977 that revealed Cambridgeshire location of child’s burial place
An A-level pupil found the lost grave of the Black abolitionist Olaudah Equiano’s daughter, revealing a story of love and solidarity in 18th-century rural England.
Olaudah Equiano (1745-1797), also known as Gustavus Vassa, escaped enslavement to become a celebrated author and campaigner in Georgian England. His memoir, The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African, was a bestseller. Continue reading...
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November 1, 2025 at 6:26 AM
Lost grave of daughter of Black abolitionist Olaudah Equiano found by A-level student
Scary! Contribution to neighbourhood kids’ pre-truck or treating party.
October 31, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Scary! Contribution to neighbourhood kids’ pre-truck or treating party.
Any of you fine folk have familiarity w Arundel MS 66 at the BL, sometimes called Henry VII's book of astrology? Trying to help a student interested in a transcription, and secondary literature on it. BL's limited current catalogue isn't helpful & surprisingly little shows up in usual searches.
October 31, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Any of you fine folk have familiarity w Arundel MS 66 at the BL, sometimes called Henry VII's book of astrology? Trying to help a student interested in a transcription, and secondary literature on it. BL's limited current catalogue isn't helpful & surprisingly little shows up in usual searches.
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“Brown Sugar Makes the World Go ‘Round”: A Conversation with Kim F. Hall on The Sweet Taste of Empire bcrw.barnard.edu/brown-sugar-...
“Brown Sugar Makes the World Go ‘Round”: A Conversation with Kim F. Hall on The Sweet Taste of Empire | Barnard Center for Research on Women
Tomisin Fasosi interviews Kim F. Hall on her new book, The Sweet Taste of Empire
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October 23, 2025 at 5:39 AM
“Brown Sugar Makes the World Go ‘Round”: A Conversation with Kim F. Hall on The Sweet Taste of Empire bcrw.barnard.edu/brown-sugar-...
Super unhelpful form/email, refund, from the PRO about page check request I made 2 weeks ago for an HCA folder I'd like photographed: your document is unavailable/lost/out with a reader. Ah, well, which is it? if it's the latter why wouldn't you just wait a few more days? Staff shortages no doubt.
October 30, 2025 at 12:07 PM
Super unhelpful form/email, refund, from the PRO about page check request I made 2 weeks ago for an HCA folder I'd like photographed: your document is unavailable/lost/out with a reader. Ah, well, which is it? if it's the latter why wouldn't you just wait a few more days? Staff shortages no doubt.
@drleonj.bsky.social You’ll be pleased to hear that centuries of evolution on the perilous tundra came to fruition on our morning walk with Big Yoda sniffing out a wayward bag of fresh buns. It was so dark he managed to scarf one down before I saw what he had. He is very pleased with himself.
October 30, 2025 at 10:35 AM
@drleonj.bsky.social You’ll be pleased to hear that centuries of evolution on the perilous tundra came to fruition on our morning walk with Big Yoda sniffing out a wayward bag of fresh buns. It was so dark he managed to scarf one down before I saw what he had. He is very pleased with himself.
@brookenewman.bsky.social Finally installed the surgery-delayed laundry room bloody heavy countertop. Shame entryway closet projects into this room so much, but wallpaper looks ok. Like the heavy duty levelling feet to give me a gap under the upright for any water or mopping floor. Big improvement.
October 26, 2025 at 4:20 PM
@brookenewman.bsky.social Finally installed the surgery-delayed laundry room bloody heavy countertop. Shame entryway closet projects into this room so much, but wallpaper looks ok. Like the heavy duty levelling feet to give me a gap under the upright for any water or mopping floor. Big improvement.
Water levels around here have dropped so much that vessels are emerging from the water, such as this 1928 wreck not far from the city. #MaritimeHistory #Shipwreck
Receding Waters at Beothuk Lake Reveal Long-Lost Surprises
Low water levels on Beothuk Lake are revealing long-lost artifacts from the region's past. Among them is the w...
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October 24, 2025 at 10:48 PM
Water levels around here have dropped so much that vessels are emerging from the water, such as this 1928 wreck not far from the city. #MaritimeHistory #Shipwreck
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I’m Spousal Unit’s +1 tonight (as usual) under the blue whale skeleton, for the installation reception of our new university president, Dr Janet Morrison, and provost, Dr Jennifer Lokash. When I interviewed here I was struck that nearly all the senior admin I met were women; still true for most part
October 15, 2025 at 10:15 PM
I’m Spousal Unit’s +1 tonight (as usual) under the blue whale skeleton, for the installation reception of our new university president, Dr Janet Morrison, and provost, Dr Jennifer Lokash. When I interviewed here I was struck that nearly all the senior admin I met were women; still true for most part
I’m Spousal Unit’s +1 tonight (as usual) under the blue whale skeleton, for the installation reception of our new university president, Dr Janet Morrison, and provost, Dr Jennifer Lokash. When I interviewed here I was struck that nearly all the senior admin I met were women; still true for most part
October 15, 2025 at 10:15 PM
I’m Spousal Unit’s +1 tonight (as usual) under the blue whale skeleton, for the installation reception of our new university president, Dr Janet Morrison, and provost, Dr Jennifer Lokash. When I interviewed here I was struck that nearly all the senior admin I met were women; still true for most part
