Shea Hendry
@sheahendry.bsky.social
PhD Student at the University of Cambridge. Loyalist Families, Transnational Itineracy, & National Character(s).
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An interview with a historian who set out to weave a textile of the type that would have been sold to plantations for use by enslaved people, using period equipment.
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Cloth and Complicity: Seth Rockman on Plantations, Textiles, and the Art of Weaving - Public Books
“But I had found a set of instructions in the archives of one of New England's leading manufacturers of low-end woollen cloth for enslaved wearers.”
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November 22, 2025 at 3:25 AM
An interview with a historian who set out to weave a textile of the type that would have been sold to plantations for use by enslaved people, using period equipment.
www.publicbooks.org/cloth-and-co...
www.publicbooks.org/cloth-and-co...
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A group, led by Gates Cambridge Scholars, is helping Palestinian students navigate the admissions processes of universities across the world.
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#gaza #education
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Find out more here - www.gatescambridge.org/about/news/s...
#gaza #education
@uniofcam.bsky.social @gatesfoundation.bsky.social
Scholars launch mentorship scheme to help Palestinian students - Gates Cambridge
A group, led by Gates Cambridge Scholars, is helping Palestinian students navigate the admissions processes of universities across the world.
www.gatescambridge.org
October 1, 2025 at 11:03 AM
A group, led by Gates Cambridge Scholars, is helping Palestinian students navigate the admissions processes of universities across the world.
Find out more here - www.gatescambridge.org/about/news/s...
#gaza #education
@uniofcam.bsky.social @gatesfoundation.bsky.social
Find out more here - www.gatescambridge.org/about/news/s...
#gaza #education
@uniofcam.bsky.social @gatesfoundation.bsky.social
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James A. Dun shares a record of 4,428 discrete voyages between Philadelphia and a variety of Dominguan/Haitian ports for scholars to explore. Click for Dun's introduction to the project (with a BONUS StoryMap!) ageofrevolutions.com/2025/04/28/a...
American Trade with Revolutionary Haiti: A Dataset for Public Use
By James A. Dun It was spring 2002 and I was entering what I thought—and hoped and needed to be—the final stages of my dissertation, a study of the ways in which the events that historians have sin…
ageofrevolutions.com
April 28, 2025 at 10:56 AM
James A. Dun shares a record of 4,428 discrete voyages between Philadelphia and a variety of Dominguan/Haitian ports for scholars to explore. Click for Dun's introduction to the project (with a BONUS StoryMap!) ageofrevolutions.com/2025/04/28/a...
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Let them eat space
Gayle King Defends 11-Minute Space Flight After ‘Disrespectful’ Backlash:
"My question is, have y’all been to space? Go to space or go to Blue Origin and see what they do and then come back and say, ‘This is a terrible thing.'"
"My question is, have y’all been to space? Go to space or go to Blue Origin and see what they do and then come back and say, ‘This is a terrible thing.'"
Gayle King Defends 'Expensive' 11-Minute Space Flight After 'Disrespectful' Backlash
Gayle King defends Blue Origin space flight after herself, Katy Perry, and the other participants received backlash for going to space for 11 minutes.
rollingstone.com
April 16, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Let them eat space
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Bluesky community - I’m raising rapid-release funds to help Congolese friends with emergency evacuation and subsistence support in Bukavu and Goma. Many have lost work and access to aid, not least b/c of USAID gutting. Please give what you can & re-share this post! www.gofundme.com/f/emergency-...
Donate to Emergency Evacuation Fund: DRC Peacebuilders, organized by Zarinah Agnew
On Friday February 14th, M23 rebels captured and occupied Bukavu, the secon… Zarinah Agnew needs your support for Emergency Evacuation Fund: DRC Peacebuilders
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February 28, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Bluesky community - I’m raising rapid-release funds to help Congolese friends with emergency evacuation and subsistence support in Bukavu and Goma. Many have lost work and access to aid, not least b/c of USAID gutting. Please give what you can & re-share this post! www.gofundme.com/f/emergency-...