K Colette Hill 🇨🇦
@k-colette-hill.bsky.social
history MA student | SSHRC Graduate Scholar | I research 19th/20th century domestic marginalia, vernacular dwellings, food history, digital archiving of material culture.
Found in today’s NYT: an example of domestic writing “in the wild”.
In a deeply personal look at the home of F. Murray Abraham includes this photo of his granddaughter’s height chart and what it means to both of them. A testament to the importance of these artefacts as archives of family life!
In a deeply personal look at the home of F. Murray Abraham includes this photo of his granddaughter’s height chart and what it means to both of them. A testament to the importance of these artefacts as archives of family life!
November 20, 2025 at 4:10 AM
Found in today’s NYT: an example of domestic writing “in the wild”.
In a deeply personal look at the home of F. Murray Abraham includes this photo of his granddaughter’s height chart and what it means to both of them. A testament to the importance of these artefacts as archives of family life!
In a deeply personal look at the home of F. Murray Abraham includes this photo of his granddaughter’s height chart and what it means to both of them. A testament to the importance of these artefacts as archives of family life!
A beautiful piece by Aisha Marjara.
Am I the Skinniest Person You’ve Ever Seen? www.nytimes.com/video/opinio...
Am I the Skinniest Person You’ve Ever Seen? www.nytimes.com/video/opinio...
Video: Opinion | Am I the Skinniest Person You’ve Ever Seen?
My sister and I went on a joint diet. She stopped and I didn’t.
www.nytimes.com
November 18, 2025 at 12:46 PM
A beautiful piece by Aisha Marjara.
Am I the Skinniest Person You’ve Ever Seen? www.nytimes.com/video/opinio...
Am I the Skinniest Person You’ve Ever Seen? www.nytimes.com/video/opinio...
Clicking "submit" 50+ times and nothing is submitted. Signing in 100+ times. Repeatedly uploading all the clunky PDFs that refuse to attach. It's entirely possible I'm responsible for crashing the @sshrc-crsh.canada.ca website.
September 22, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Clicking "submit" 50+ times and nothing is submitted. Signing in 100+ times. Repeatedly uploading all the clunky PDFs that refuse to attach. It's entirely possible I'm responsible for crashing the @sshrc-crsh.canada.ca website.
Amazing venue, so many interesting papers, lovely chats with new friends, cool streets to walk down, and proper fish and chips. Thank you @socialhistsoc.bsky.social for the opportunity to attend and present in the UK for the first time. #shsconf2025
July 9, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Amazing venue, so many interesting papers, lovely chats with new friends, cool streets to walk down, and proper fish and chips. Thank you @socialhistsoc.bsky.social for the opportunity to attend and present in the UK for the first time. #shsconf2025
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Karen Harvey's lovely #SHSconf2025 keynote on 'trifling' letters in the c18th has me wanting to compose all my WhatsApp messages as little letters, with all their care for language, for a while. Since I basically only message my wife she in particular will be suffering.
July 8, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Karen Harvey's lovely #SHSconf2025 keynote on 'trifling' letters in the c18th has me wanting to compose all my WhatsApp messages as little letters, with all their care for language, for a while. Since I basically only message my wife she in particular will be suffering.
Thank you to all who came out for our last panel on the last day. Such good discussions and many thanks to @zoejackson.bsky.social and our chair Leo Shipp for the generous and thoughtful discussion afterward. It was a great wrap up to #SHSConf2025
July 9, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Thank you to all who came out for our last panel on the last day. Such good discussions and many thanks to @zoejackson.bsky.social and our chair Leo Shipp for the generous and thoughtful discussion afterward. It was a great wrap up to #SHSConf2025
Thanatourism with Pippa Catterall. I’m not up for public executions but never miss a cemetery if I can help it! #SHCConf2025
July 9, 2025 at 11:16 AM
Thanatourism with Pippa Catterall. I’m not up for public executions but never miss a cemetery if I can help it! #SHCConf2025
Now I’m really ready. #SHSConf2025 #lastdaypanel
July 8, 2025 at 11:32 PM
Now I’m really ready. #SHSConf2025 #lastdaypanel
Day 2 conclusion: holding a conference at a living history museum with time to explore, eat, and play is an inspired choice. #SHSConf2025
July 8, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Day 2 conclusion: holding a conference at a living history museum with time to explore, eat, and play is an inspired choice. #SHSConf2025
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Thrilled to be listening to Prof Karen Harvey, who is giving the keynote at #SHSConf2025!
Fascinating discussion of the ways in which letter-writers in 18th-century Britain 'belittled' their letters - and why!
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Fascinating discussion of the ways in which letter-writers in 18th-century Britain 'belittled' their letters - and why!
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July 8, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Thrilled to be listening to Prof Karen Harvey, who is giving the keynote at #SHSConf2025!
Fascinating discussion of the ways in which letter-writers in 18th-century Britain 'belittled' their letters - and why!
🗃️✉️📜
Fascinating discussion of the ways in which letter-writers in 18th-century Britain 'belittled' their letters - and why!
🗃️✉️📜
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To be fair, a chippy tea and then access to the fairground makes for a pretty epic first night of a conference! #SHSConf2025
July 7, 2025 at 10:01 PM
To be fair, a chippy tea and then access to the fairground makes for a pretty epic first night of a conference! #SHSConf2025
Thoroughly enjoyed (and madly scribbled many notes) Domestic Interiors and Everyday Materiality panel with @emilycuming.bsky.social, @annaannawalsh.bsky.social and @luciejones83.bsky.social
Material culture of the home in three very different contexts, all of them fascinating! #SHSConf2025
Material culture of the home in three very different contexts, all of them fascinating! #SHSConf2025
July 8, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Thoroughly enjoyed (and madly scribbled many notes) Domestic Interiors and Everyday Materiality panel with @emilycuming.bsky.social, @annaannawalsh.bsky.social and @luciejones83.bsky.social
Material culture of the home in three very different contexts, all of them fascinating! #SHSConf2025
Material culture of the home in three very different contexts, all of them fascinating! #SHSConf2025
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Fantastic roundtable at the #SHSConf2025 on material culture!
Featuring four fabulous speakers - @simonbriercliffe.bsky.social on @bclivingmuseum.bsky.social; @timhitchcock.bsky.social on convict tokens; @anahowie.bsky.social on portraiture & pearl fisheries & Simon Morgan on radical pottery✨
Featuring four fabulous speakers - @simonbriercliffe.bsky.social on @bclivingmuseum.bsky.social; @timhitchcock.bsky.social on convict tokens; @anahowie.bsky.social on portraiture & pearl fisheries & Simon Morgan on radical pottery✨
July 7, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Fantastic roundtable at the #SHSConf2025 on material culture!
Featuring four fabulous speakers - @simonbriercliffe.bsky.social on @bclivingmuseum.bsky.social; @timhitchcock.bsky.social on convict tokens; @anahowie.bsky.social on portraiture & pearl fisheries & Simon Morgan on radical pottery✨
Featuring four fabulous speakers - @simonbriercliffe.bsky.social on @bclivingmuseum.bsky.social; @timhitchcock.bsky.social on convict tokens; @anahowie.bsky.social on portraiture & pearl fisheries & Simon Morgan on radical pottery✨
Last night’s material culture roundtable was a definite highlight, with an excellent introduction to collections and methodology of the Black Country Living Museum. #SHSConf2025
July 8, 2025 at 10:55 AM
Last night’s material culture roundtable was a definite highlight, with an excellent introduction to collections and methodology of the Black Country Living Museum. #SHSConf2025
I really should have honed my elevator pitch prior to being asked what my research is about. Are you familiar with marginalia in books? I research marginalia in vernacular domestic dwellings. I’ll be presenting on Wednesday! #SHSConf2025
July 7, 2025 at 12:27 PM
I really should have honed my elevator pitch prior to being asked what my research is about. Are you familiar with marginalia in books? I research marginalia in vernacular domestic dwellings. I’ll be presenting on Wednesday! #SHSConf2025
Arrived for some @socialhistsoc.bsky.social pre-conference touring of @bclivingmuseum.bsky.social. It took all of about 10 minutes for the room with the hob and pink transferware to find me #SHSConf2025
July 7, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Arrived for some @socialhistsoc.bsky.social pre-conference touring of @bclivingmuseum.bsky.social. It took all of about 10 minutes for the room with the hob and pink transferware to find me #SHSConf2025
One more sleep! (for those who lose a day flying)
I simply cannot wait to meet some new people, and present my paper alongside some really fascinating researchers and their ideas (queer magic? scientific housewifery? memory and materiality of retirement gifts?) #SHSConf2025
I simply cannot wait to meet some new people, and present my paper alongside some really fascinating researchers and their ideas (queer magic? scientific housewifery? memory and materiality of retirement gifts?) #SHSConf2025
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July 4, 2025 at 6:11 PM
One more sleep! (for those who lose a day flying)
I simply cannot wait to meet some new people, and present my paper alongside some really fascinating researchers and their ideas (queer magic? scientific housewifery? memory and materiality of retirement gifts?) #SHSConf2025
I simply cannot wait to meet some new people, and present my paper alongside some really fascinating researchers and their ideas (queer magic? scientific housewifery? memory and materiality of retirement gifts?) #SHSConf2025
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It’s here! Objects of Poverty: Material Culture in Britain from 1700 www.bloomsbury.com/uk/objects-o...
June 20, 2025 at 9:53 AM
It’s here! Objects of Poverty: Material Culture in Britain from 1700 www.bloomsbury.com/uk/objects-o...
So much of why I find domestic marginalia exciting is articulated here by Edmund de Waal.
“The building…is itself an archive…Text is everywhere—a name is written…A date, and then another and another, carved into the doorway or painted high above your head, kinds of reckonings.”
“The building…is itself an archive…Text is everywhere—a name is written…A date, and then another and another, carved into the doorway or painted high above your head, kinds of reckonings.”
May 14, 2025 at 12:50 PM
So much of why I find domestic marginalia exciting is articulated here by Edmund de Waal.
“The building…is itself an archive…Text is everywhere—a name is written…A date, and then another and another, carved into the doorway or painted high above your head, kinds of reckonings.”
“The building…is itself an archive…Text is everywhere—a name is written…A date, and then another and another, carved into the doorway or painted high above your head, kinds of reckonings.”
Not buying U.S. doesn’t hurt that much. Other losses remind me of those good parts of American culture that have been influential in my 🇨🇦 life. Solo trips to NYC, that time in undergrad I got to spend a week at Harvard doing research. Childhood memories of PBS. NPR. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/02/u...
Trump Signs Executive Order Seeking to End Federal Funding for NPR and PBS (Gift Article)
The Trump administration has accused the two broadcasters of using public funds to produce biased coverage and “left-wing propaganda.”
www.nytimes.com
May 2, 2025 at 11:58 AM
Not buying U.S. doesn’t hurt that much. Other losses remind me of those good parts of American culture that have been influential in my 🇨🇦 life. Solo trips to NYC, that time in undergrad I got to spend a week at Harvard doing research. Childhood memories of PBS. NPR. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/02/u...
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I'm really excited to share this fun little piece I wrote for the Society for the History of Children and Youth's Digital Childhoods Blog - I've fallen in love with little shoes and hope you do too!
shcydigitalchildhoods.org/dir/shoes-sh...
shcydigitalchildhoods.org/dir/shoes-sh...
The Magic of Children's Shoes - Digital Childhoods
Much to the dismay of historians studying the material culture of early modern childhood, few examples of children’s clothing survive from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. While textiles degra...
shcydigitalchildhoods.org
April 30, 2025 at 12:00 PM
I'm really excited to share this fun little piece I wrote for the Society for the History of Children and Youth's Digital Childhoods Blog - I've fallen in love with little shoes and hope you do too!
shcydigitalchildhoods.org/dir/shoes-sh...
shcydigitalchildhoods.org/dir/shoes-sh...
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Spanning over a century, #IsleOfMan planning records constitute our most widely-used #ArchiveCollection. Casting light on the history of properties and the people connected to them, these records also work in tandem with other collections in our archive to aid research. #Archive30 #ManxArchives
April 29, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Spanning over a century, #IsleOfMan planning records constitute our most widely-used #ArchiveCollection. Casting light on the history of properties and the people connected to them, these records also work in tandem with other collections in our archive to aid research. #Archive30 #ManxArchives
Building as palimpsest. The wonderful edited volume Palimpsests: Buildings, Sites, Time puts it so well. The building as palimpsest brings a fourth dimension—that of duration—essential to understanding architecture and sites as historic and contemporary entities.
Folklore is a Palimpsest, a physical reminder that the past holds space in the presence. A living, breathing continuum. It calls out from the ephemeral, 'we were here. We lived, and we loved. We weren't so different from you'
#Folklore #Shropshire #History
#Folklore #Shropshire #History
April 14, 2025 at 2:30 AM
Building as palimpsest. The wonderful edited volume Palimpsests: Buildings, Sites, Time puts it so well. The building as palimpsest brings a fourth dimension—that of duration—essential to understanding architecture and sites as historic and contemporary entities.
This thread reminds me of reading Derrida in my undergrad and the feeling it was the assigned reading equivalent of that dream where someone is chasing you and you’re trying to phone for help but none of the buttons work. In French.
It is 1991. You are a humanities academic. You have reached an impasse in your argument when your eye alights on a random passage of Derrida. Suddenly, you know how to proceed
April 10, 2025 at 1:55 AM
This thread reminds me of reading Derrida in my undergrad and the feeling it was the assigned reading equivalent of that dream where someone is chasing you and you’re trying to phone for help but none of the buttons work. In French.
Sprouts are good in some applications but as a daily consumer of salad I’ve become like Red from Shawshank and can track down non-US lettuce anytime, anywhere. We grow greenhouse lettuce all year round right here in Ontario!
Opting for microgreens over lettuce amid tariff war? Here’s how they stack up
Here’s a microgreen primer, plus tasty ways to add them to your diet
www.theglobeandmail.com
April 8, 2025 at 2:19 AM
Sprouts are good in some applications but as a daily consumer of salad I’ve become like Red from Shawshank and can track down non-US lettuce anytime, anywhere. We grow greenhouse lettuce all year round right here in Ontario!