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Meaghan Walker
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Historian of clothes and the maritime world in the long nineteenth century, 1660-1989. Aspiring Titanic influencer. She/Her
Wavy Navy! Cnd naval reservists get wavy cuff embroidery instead of straight lines. I have always been delighted by this moniker.
[November 13th, 1945] Lieut. Robert Hampton "Hammy" Gray of Nelson, B.C., was posthumously awarded the Victoria Cross for his heroic attack on a Japanese destroyer during World War II, which cost him his life. He was the 13th Canadian to receive the honor and the first Canadian Navy member to do so.
November 14, 2025 at 12:43 AM
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A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.

Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."

Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers
James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA who died Thursday at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers.
www.statnews.com
November 8, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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Unidentified camouflaged ship, picture taken from HMCS MAYFLOWER in 1944, possibly around Normandy invasion. If you can identify this ship, please leave a comment. @RLitwiller #RCNavy Photo Collection. See MORE zurl.co/lBEmW
November 6, 2025 at 10:30 AM
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Once again, @yaelrice.bsky.social and I published this article in 2020 so that no one ever has to debunk this vile nonsense point-by-point ever again. As we write (see the next post in this thread)...

hyperallergic.com/604897/how-s...
November 6, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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Tremendous achievement by Kara Walker in dismantling and reconstructing the Charlottesville monument to Stonewall Jackson. Its howling self-destructive demise is on full view at The Brick in Los Angeles. Now titled “Unmanned Drone” (2025)
November 6, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Look I know what he’s talking about but damn political cartoonists better make the most of “steam-powered catapults”.
November 1, 2025 at 8:15 PM
I saw a fucking BREADFRUIT TREE today! Also VANILLA!!
October 17, 2025 at 10:07 PM
Just make everyone in NYC cops already, this is taking forever.
Ha ha Sliwa says he'll add SEVEN thousand cops.
October 17, 2025 at 1:31 AM
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Two unidentified crew members from HMCS TRENTONIAN during the North Atlantic crossing in April 1944. It is still cold on the open ocean as there are icicles hanging from the kisby ring. @RLitwiller #RCNavy Photo Collection. See MORE zurl.co/lBEmW
October 15, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Piecework is how military clothing and uniforms were made 200yo and there is a straight line between that labour and this. Done by women, for next to nothing, this work built modern fashion, if not the modern world.
I interviewed one of these factory workers in Los Angeles. She gets paid three cents to sew a zipper, five cents for a collar, and seven cents to prepare the top part of a skirt.

This is how fast fashion brands like Fashion Nova can put "Made in USA" tags on dress shirts that retail for only $25
October 12, 2025 at 10:18 PM
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British colonial officials destroyed countless files before decolonisation. But one colony has been neglected by the literature: Hong Kong. My latest paper in @jich.bsky.social examines the past, present and future of Hong Kong colonial government migrated archives: doi.org/10.1080/0308...
Hong Kong Colonial Government Migrated Archives at Hanslope Park
Following the revelation in 2011 that the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office was sitting on the migrated archives of dozens of colonial governments, almost 20,000 files were transferred from s...
doi.org
October 1, 2025 at 11:51 AM
Lord embarrassed for us that our lawmakers had to be in the room with Trump for his weekly “I’m not dead” appearance.
October 7, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Buttered mashed potatoes with salt and pep, after you haven’t had them in a long time, are the most delicious thing ever. So perfect. So humble.
October 5, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Having worked on clothing in the navy I can say that “logistics gay” is a very common modern sentiment from the public to academic historians.
I know these guys are all dumber than a sack of hammers, but it is fascinating to see the military decide “logistics are gay” in real time
October 2, 2025 at 10:55 PM
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#OTD 1/10/1941 #RememberRCN -Appropriately named, Sail Training schooner HMCS ATTABOY is commissioned into the RCN. The owner, Lt. Thomas Fuller, RCNVR (AKA -The Pirate of the Adriatic for his exploits commanding MGB's) of Ottawa loaned the 38 ft schooner to train RCNVR sailors.
October 1, 2025 at 10:00 AM
The problem with switching to flannel sheets season is that now I never want to get out of bed even more than usual.
September 29, 2025 at 11:36 AM
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"Slavery combined with cheap fish made for cheap labour, which in turn made for cheap sugar. Some of this sugar returned to the Northeast and became rum in New England distilleries." - Sandy Hunter

niche-canada.org/2023/01/31/c...

#envhist #coastalhistory #labourhistory
September 17, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Got to look at 1950s sailor inventories today because apparently the RGSS never stopped requiring them! We saw records for deceased Indonesian passengers going to the Hajj and my first sailor killed by motor vehicle, hit by a lorry in Genoa while on leave.
September 2, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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Please help spread the word about our CFP? Id love to get a wide variety of posts for this series
CFP: 'Academic Processes and Digital Humanities' - Global Maritime History
GlobalMaritimeHistory welcomes proposals for our new series ‘Academic Processes and Digital Humanities’. We are looking for people to talk about the processes (especially technical processes) that they use to do their research, analysis or both.  Some of the things we would love to have you write about Transcription of Documents Textual Analysis Materials Analysis Materials Conservation/Art Conservation Mapping, GIS and related topics Use of R and data visualization Databases and their varied uses Using websites to display projects and findings Collective projects/collaboration This series is very much about these processes, and it is not at all required that your research be on a maritime topic. If how you do what you do is neat and you think that it would interest other people or help other people with their research, we would love to hear from you. Proposals do not need to be any particular length. The blogposts should be approximately 800-1000 words, however we absolutely do encourage longer posts. We also encourage embedded youtube videos, images, anything that can be embedded into our posts. Also, please do not feel the need to moderate your enthusiasm. This is an audience that appreciates procedural and technical enthusiasm. Posts should be written for an educated but not expert audience. Links to tutorials and similar material is always appreciated. We are also open to tutorial videos, or other formats instead of written blog posts. If it is technically possible to be done on WordPress then we are very much open to creative approaches to discusses processes.  If you are unable to submit something in the near future but are interested in contributing over the longer term, please do get in touch. We’d love to hear from you as well. This series is open to grad students, early career researchers as well as more established researchers. We will not be entertaining any proposals either written by or having to do with the use of generative AI. If you are interested in contributing to this series please email Dr Samuel McLean
globalmaritimehistory.com
September 1, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Brazil mostly booked! Excited to use the only Portuguese word I know, "baccalieu!"
September 1, 2025 at 6:52 PM
We are still open for participants in this year's workshops! You don't have to be a historian to be involved or consider yourself a maritime historian.
Grad student or ECR? Join us at Maritime History Workshops for our 5th series of sessions WE'RE ALL MARITIME HISTORIANS NOW OR ARE "WE"? Our Fall schedule has been posted w guests speaking on career and research difficulties in the current global climate at maritimeworkshops.com. #maritimehistory
August 27, 2025 at 4:16 PM
I looked for news about the rain and VOCM provided.
First Rainfall of August Finally Falling on Parched Province
If you never thought you'd see a headline story about showers, well, here it is. The rain is finally falling i...
vocm.com
August 15, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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STATEMENT: We strongly condemn Israel’s targeted assassination of journalists in Gaza.

And we call on our media colleagues everywhere to join us in speaking out.

ricochet.media/media/statem...
Ricochet condemns Israel’s targeted assassination of journalists in Gaza
Journalists and media workers must speak out
ricochet.media
August 11, 2025 at 9:48 PM
Grad student or ECR? Join us at Maritime History Workshops for our 5th series of sessions WE'RE ALL MARITIME HISTORIANS NOW OR ARE "WE"? Our Fall schedule has been posted w guests speaking on career and research difficulties in the current global climate at maritimeworkshops.com. #maritimehistory
August 11, 2025 at 6:10 PM