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Kristan Tetens
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Hat #1: Chartered PR/strategic comms professional, UK higher education sector. Hat #2: PhD'd historian currently writing about my family's connections with the Danish West Indies, c. 1720-1900. Former Michiganian … ask me about Petoskey stones and Motown!
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Kristan Tetens @tetens.bsky.social · May 24
View of the Moravian mission at Friedensthal near Christiansted, St. Croix, Danish West Indies, c. 1777. My 5x great-grandmother was baptised there sometime in the 1780s, ditching her slave name for "Dorothea."
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Protesters in Nigeria have disrupted this week’s opening of a major museum of West African art, where local disputes over the world-renowned Benin Bronzes have already kept them from being put on display. https://to.pbs.org/43klMFo
Protesters disrupt opening of major West African art museum in Nigeria
Protesters in Nigeria have disrupted this week’s opening of a major museum of West African art, where local disputes over the world-renowned Benin Bronzes have already kept them from being put on disp...
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November 10, 2025 at 10:33 PM
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princetonupress.bsky.social
"Fine-grained...[and] painstakingly researched." Read @alanlester.bsky.social's review of Roquinaldo Ferreira's Worlds of Unfreedom in @historytoday.com: www.historytoday.com/archive/revi...
‘The Heretic of Cacheu’ and ‘Worlds of Unfreedom’ review
www.historytoday.com
November 5, 2025 at 7:05 PM
tetens.bsky.social
A glowing review of Miranda Kaufmann’s ‘Heiresses: Marriage, Inheritance and Caribbean Slavery,’ a study that, among other things, considers “Britons’ (continuing) failure to appreciate how much of their affluence was (and still is) based on the suffering of distant others.”
October 15, 2025 at 4:54 AM
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carlsbergfondet.dk
”Mennesker flygtede ikke kun ud af Caribien for at opnå frihed, men også til andre caribiske øer, hvor forholdene måske blev anset for mere tålelige.”
🎙️Hør podcasten 'Caribiens skjulte forbindelser' med #MånedensForsker Gunvor Simonsen 👉 bit.ly/podcast_gunvor #dkforsk
October 3, 2025 at 6:31 AM
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‘My paintings don’t fit the narrative’: Kerry James Marshall on why he’s depicting black enslavers
He is arguably America’s greatest living painter, elevating everyday black life to the level of epic, jaw-dropping masterpieces. Now, for his biggest European show, the artist talks us through his dis...
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September 22, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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londonreviewbookshop.co.uk
LONDON PUBS NAMED AFTER DIFFERENT NUMBERS OF BELLS. an investigation
September 17, 2025 at 9:17 AM
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thelibrariansfilm.bsky.social
As book banning sweeps across the U.S. at an unprecedented rate, brave librarians emerge as first responders in the fight for democracy. A film by Kim A. Snyder.

Opens UK 9/26 @berthadochouse.bsky.social, US 10/03 @filmforumnyc.bsky.social, rollout to follow.

Tix: TheLibrariansFilm.com/screenings
September 5, 2025 at 9:42 PM
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kevinmkruse.bsky.social
No film gets historians right, but that's only because no audience wants to watch someone quietly work their way through a cardboard box of old papers, in total silence, for eight straight hours.
beijingpalmer.bsky.social BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · Aug 28
an interesting subtopic! which shows/movies are beloved by the profession for Getting It Right! Lawyers famously love MY COUSIN VINNIE, doctors I believe love SCRUBS, apparently Aussie barristers are surprisingly fond of RAKE's depiction of some aspects of the law.
swin24.bsky.social Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · Aug 28
Oh god I remember watching HOUSE with some doctors, it was a the usual mix of “you would get fired instantly and never practice medicine again no matter how good u are” and “that case actually isn’t hard to solve at all”
August 28, 2025 at 11:32 PM
tetens.bsky.social
Rose in a teacup.

Rose, nature’s handiwork from my garden; teacup, Simon Pettet’s "Storm in a Tea-Cup" mug from Dennis Severs’ House, shop.dennissevershouse.co.uk/products/sim...
A pink rose in full-blown perfection sits in a tea-cup.
August 22, 2025 at 2:34 PM
tetens.bsky.social
This would have been the perfect cover art for Samantha Harvey’s Booker-winning Orbital.
bukifatona.bsky.social Dr Buki Fatona @bukifatona.bsky.social · Aug 19
'Starry Night and the Astronauts' by Alma Thomas

She made this painting in 1972, when she was eighty. In the same year, she became the first African American woman to have a solo exhibition at the Whitney Museum.
A striking abstract painting in blue with streaks of oranges near the top of one corner. "The surface here is clearly constructed stroke by stroke. Meanwhile, the glimpses of raw canvas between each primary-colored mark seem as vivid as the applied paint itself—almost as if the composition were backlit."
August 20, 2025 at 9:58 AM
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Thread. 🧵
tlecaque.bsky.social Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · Aug 19
"How bad slavery was" is worse. Much worse. Much worse than you think, much worse than you're taught, much worse than museums depict. Worse.
August 19, 2025 at 9:26 PM
tetens.bsky.social
Who was the real Miss Lambe, Jane Austen’s mixed-race heroine?

www.thetimes.com/article/1d1a...
Who was the real Miss Lambe, Jane Austen’s mixed-race heroine?
Austen scholar Paula Byrne makes the case that the intriguing character from Sanditon, her unfinished novel, was likely based on a real woman
www.thetimes.com
August 7, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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Emily Dickinson’s Herbarium: A Beautiful Digital Edition of the Poet’s Pressed Plants & Flowers Is Now Online
Emily Dickinson’s Herbarium: A Beautiful Digital Edition of the Poet’s Pressed Plants & Flowers Is Now Online
So many writers have been gardeners and have written about gardens that it might be easier to make a list of those who didn’t. But even in this crowded company, Emily Dickinson stands out.
www.openculture.com
August 1, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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marykgames.com
I’m part of a project near and dear to my heart, a documentary about Nancy Drew: her stories, games, & place in girls’ imaginations

Funding was cut by the fed, so it’s up to Kickstarter. Please, if you can - this is a special project that deserves to come out

www.kickstarter.com/projects/cod...
Nancy Drew: The Case of the American Icon
Full-length documentary exploring the history and cultural impact of literature’s OG girl sleuth - Nancy Drew
www.kickstarter.com
July 29, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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alanlester.bsky.social
Blog on the story of the British Empire embodied in the fabric of one picturesque rural church. Its construction & memorials reflect slavery & antislavery; the East India Company; racial discrimination & liberal imperialism in South Africa, & drowned African troops.

alanlester.co.uk/blog/newtimb...
Newtimber Church and the British Empire
St John the Evangelist Church at Newtimber, West Sussex, is a lovely little building nestled in the South Downs. You couldn’t really imagine a more idyllic spot, or such incongruity with the subjec…
alanlester.co.uk
July 28, 2025 at 6:45 AM
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publicdomainrev.bsky.social
Japanese prints from 1873 depicting famous Western inventors and scholars in times of trouble. Pictured: Audubon (work eaten by mice), Carlyle (papers burnt), and Arkwright (spinning machine smashed by wife). More here: publicdomainreview.org/collection/j...
July 20, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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Fascinating: `Reclaiming the Lost Archive of the Convento de San Agustin' a project led by Christina Lee and Maria Cristina Martinez-Juan has launched the digital reconstruction of the dispersed 18th-century Library of the Convent of San Agustin in Manila

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Home - Repatriating a Lost Library of the Spanish Pacific
Reclaiming the Lost Archive of the Convento de San Agustin Skip Go 761 Manuscripts Collected from The Lilly Library The Lopez Library San Agustin Museum King’s College SOAS British Library The 1762 Ar...
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July 19, 2025 at 5:57 AM
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dbellingradt.bsky.social
The Necessary Companion (in German "Der Nöthige Gefehrte") was a perpetual calendar published in 1675 Leipzig, Germany. The pamphlet provided detailed information on how to use this #almanac: including 3 #volvelles to calculate correctly. This was an #earlymodern learning tool to teach #astronomy.
A page from "Der Nöthige Gefehrte" (VD17 39:156118Z) showing an illustration on how to calculate correctly in an astronomical way. Access a digital copy from the Forschungsbibliothek Gotha (Theol 8° 00686a (04)) here: https://dhb.thulb.uni-jena.de/receive/ufb_cbu_00040114
November 28, 2024 at 3:17 PM
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gsoh31.bsky.social
Decades of mechanistic talk about university degrees as if they were bundles of 'skills' and 'prep' are about to be proved completely wrong (obviously). Want to get a real boost? Do History or English.
July 13, 2025 at 10:19 AM
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hellabarnes.bsky.social
no, I said I wanted a tradewife. like a union electrician
July 11, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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Sylvia Townsend Warner’s The Corner That Held Them (1948) is the subject of June's episode of the literary podcast Backlisted. The hosts speak with Tanya Kirk, author, editor and the Librarian of St John’s College, Cambridge.
www.backlisted.fm/episodes/242...
242. The Corner That Held Them by Sylvia Townsend Warner — Backlisted
Sylvia Townsend Warner's  The Corner That Held Them  (1948) is the subject of this episode, almost ten years since Backlisted covered the same author's classic debut  Lolly Willowes ...
www.backlisted.fm
July 10, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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me cherishing a weird skeet
July 5, 2025 at 12:11 PM
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ihr.bsky.social
We’ve launched a new collection of openly accessible videos, Interviews with Historians, in which prominent 20th century historians reflect on their lives and professional practices. Access the collection here:
www.history.ac.uk/library-digi...
June 26, 2025 at 12:53 PM
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astrokatie.com
I frequently take comfort in the fact that the Universe is vast and beautiful and entirely unaffected by petty human foolishness
June 23, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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Introducing...your sneak peek at the cosmos captured by NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory!

Can you guess these regions of sky?

This is just a small peek...join us at 11am US EDT for your full First Look at how Rubin will #CaptureTheCosmos! 🔭🧪

#RubinFirstLook
ls.st/rubin-first-look-livestream
A sprawling, textured field of galaxies scattered across the deep black of space. It is filled with the delicate smudges and glowing cores of galaxies of many shapes, sizes and colors, as well as the bright multi-colored points of stars. The image focuses on a collection of interacting galaxies connected by delicate streams of stars. At top center lies a large elliptical galaxy that is dense and smooth, like a polished stone glowing with golden light. Like delicate spider silk or stretched taffy, these stellar bridges link the large elliptical to the few larger galaxies beneath, evidence of past collisions. All throughout the image, thousands of galaxies gather in clusters or are spread throughout, like glittering gems strewn on a table. Some are sharp-edged and spiral, like coiled ribbons; others round and diffuse, like polished pebbles. Still others are just smudges of various colors against the black of space. The background is peppered with pinpoint stars in reds, yellows, and blues, crisp against the velvet black. A cosmic tapestry of glowing tan and pink gas clouds with dark dust lanes. In the upper right, the Trifid Nebula resembles a small flower in space. Its soft, pinkish gas petals are surrounded by blue gas, and streaked with dark, finger-like veins of dust that divide it into three parts. It radiates a gentle, misty glow, diffuse and soft like the warmth of breath on a cold hand. To the lower left, the much larger Lagoon Nebula stretches wide like a churning sea of magenta gas, with bright blue, knotted clumps sprinkled throughout where new stars are born. Both nebulae are embedded in a soft tan backdrop of gas that is brighter on the left than on the right, etched with dark tendrils of dust and sprinkled with the pinpricks of millions of stars. A sprawling, textured field of galaxies scattered across the deep black of space. It is filled with the delicate smudges and glowing cores of galaxies of many shapes, sizes and colors, as well as the bright multi-colored points of stars. To the lower left is a region filled with the hundreds of golden glittering gems of a distant galaxy cluster. In the foreground, below and right of center, two blue spiral galaxies look like eyes beneath the entangled mass of a triple galaxy merger in the upper right. A few bright blue points of foreground stars pierce the glittering tapestry. All throughout the image, thousands of galaxies gather in clusters or are spread throughout, like glittering gems strewn on a table. Some are sharp-edged and spiral, like coiled ribbons; others round and diffuse, like polished pebbles. Still others are just smudges of various colors against the black of space. The background is peppered with pinpoint stars in reds, yellows, and blues, crisp against the velvet black.
June 23, 2025 at 4:06 AM