Daniel Woolf 🇨🇦
woolf-atthedoor.bsky.social
Daniel Woolf 🇨🇦
@woolf-atthedoor.bsky.social

History professor & Principal Emeritus, Queen's University. Interests include historiography/theory, and early modern Britain. Also woolfd1958 on 'Threads'. Dog servant to Layla and occasional practitioner of several hobbies; part time radio show host. .. more

Daniel Robert Woolf is a British-Canadian historian and former university administrator. He served as the 20th Principal and Vice-Chancellor of Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, Canada, a position to which he was appointed in January 2009 and took up on 1 September 2009. He was previously a professor of history and the Dean of the Faculty of Arts at the University of Alberta. He was reappointed to a second 5-year term in 2013. In late 2017, Woolf announced his intention not to serve a third term and to retire from university administration at the end of his second term in 2019. He was succeeded by Patrick Deane, and became Principal Emeritus. .. more

History 42%
Political science 18%

Layla takes a cuddle break and fully ‘enhounds’ me which is always delightful but does somewhat inhibit my grading of papers for which 2 free hands and the computer, all of which she’s leaning on, are required.

Happy birthday to my lovely wife @jagwoolf.bsky.social. And to devotees of medieval English history, it's the 905th anniversary of the White Ship Disaster that killed the sole male heir to king Henry I's throne and gave rise 15 years later to the infamous "Anarchy". But of course you all knew that.

I hope you read the books. They are great. The movie was a disaster I thought. Should have been a miniseries

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I'm pleased to announce another new title in @universitypress.cambridge.org 's series Elements in Historical Study and practice is out and downloadable for free till Dec. 5. Chiel van den Akker, Knowledge and Narrative. doi.org/10.1017/9781...
Knowledge and Narrative
Cambridge Core - Global History - Knowledge and Narrative
doi.org

Born OTD 100 years ago, US Attorney General and Senator Robert F. Kennedy, assassinated in 1968 during run for the Dem presidential nomination. On his televised funeral in 1968 I watched his teenaged son Bobby approach and touch the casket. I hear RFKSr's shade shrieking at what his son has become.

On today's @cfrcradio.bsky.social Dark Glasses, pt 2 of our series on Joni Mitchell and Jazz: first half, several cuts from the new box set "Joni's Jazz"; 2nd half, jazz covers of Mitchell compositions by Herbie Hancock w Norah Jones, pianist David Lahm, and Canadians Diana Krall and Eniid. Tune in!

Born OTD 100 years ago, actor Rock Hudson (b. Roy Scherer Jr, d 1985). A closeted gay man playing hetero roles (incl comedy,w. Doris Day), he would be an early celebrity victim of the AIDS crisis. Apart from roles in films such as Giant, he had a long running TV role in 70s series McMillan and Wife.

I'm pleased to announce "Race, Genetics, History"- the latest title in the @universitypress.cambridge.org series Elements in Historical Study and Practice is out this morning and available to download free till Dec 1. DOI: 10.1017/9781009635363.
www.cambridge.org/core/element...
Race, Genetics, History
Cambridge Core - Global History - Race, Genetics, History
www.cambridge.org

Indeed yes. An excellent paper comparing RS to James Mill.

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This is a very dangerous moment for the country and the world. A cornered rat will do anything to escape.

Attending my NACBS in Montreal today (my first of this conference since 2004), and shortly chairing session on Historical Writing in 19th C Britain and Ireland.

A peculiar question coming from someone with this surname! (unless it's a social media pseudonym)
wow writing sucks why does anyone do this

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wow writing sucks why does anyone do this

Born OTD 100 years ago, actor Richard Burton (d 1984). As well known for his tempestuous private life as for his performances. Some of his many notable roles include The Robe, Where Eagles Dare, Becket, and The Spy who Came in from the Cold.

In the rest of the show we will have mainly jazz as usual, with new tracks from Lisa Hilton, rising Cdn bassist Aretha Tillotson, & Germany's WDR Big Band. Rounding out the hour with some classic Dave Brubeck and the late Jack DeJohnette. Tune in!

OTD 50 years ago the Great Lakes Freighter Edmund Fitzgerald foundered and sank with all 29 crew lost; Gordon Lightfoot immortalized the tragedy in his 1976 song The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald, two versions of which are featured on today's @cfrcradio.bsky.social Dark Glasses at 2 pm.

welcome to Canada Amanda!
Loving today's news that the mysterious "fedora man" outside the Louvre heist was actually a 15-year-old museum visitor who dresses like a 1940s French detective all the time, just because. apnews.com/article/louv...
Fedora man unmasked: Meet the teen behind the Louvre mystery photo
Fifteen-year-old Pedro Elias Garzon Delvaux has become an internet sensation after an Associated Press photo captured him outside the Louvre on the day of a crown jewels heist.
apnews.com

Two students from my rather good 4th year seminar (where we are doing a role play about statues and naming controversies) just Bcced me on their in-role emails as a concerned board member and the university head of advancement. If I didn't know better I'd swear they were pros!

Awesome ! The coolest Tudor.

Born OTD 100 years ago, American actress Doris Roberts (d 2016); best known for tv roles on Remington Steele and, latterly, Everybody Loves Raymond. In a 7-decade career she earned 5 Emmy Awards.

RIP Diane Ladd. A long career as far back as the 50s and some bravura performances such as in Alice Doesn't Live here Anymore. I once saw 24 year old Ladd in a 1958 episode of the classic tv cop show "Naked City" and was staggered how much she resembled her daughter Laura Dern at that age.

On today's @cfrcradio.bsky.social Dark Glasses at 2 EST, we pay tributes to 2 departed jazz giants, electric bassist Anthony Jackson and drummer Jack de Johnette. Plus Oscar Peterson, a long track from Miles Davis's classic Bitches Brew, and new music from Ontario roots musician Kate Weekes.Tune in!

7."Thinking Traumatic Histories"-Zachary Riebeling
8. "Histories of Madness"-David Wright

full list of titles at www.cambridge.org/core/publica...
Elements in Historical Theory and Practice series
Welcome to Cambridge Core
www.cambridge.org

4."Myths, History Wars, and Indigenous-Settler Relations in Canada and Other Settler States"-David MacDonald
5. "Race, Genetics and History"-Alexandra P. Alberda, Njabulo Chipangura, Lara Choksey, Jerome de Groot, Maya Sharma
6."Reparations and Redress for Historical Injustice"-Timothy Waligore

[thread] Some upcoming titles in the @universitypress.cambridge.org series Elements in Historical Theory and Practice:
1."Knowledge and Narrative"-Chiel van den Akker.
2."The History of Contingency and Future Oriented Thought"-Thomas Moynihan.
3."Gender, Theory and History"-Maria Ines La Greca

Left: the Artist Formerly Known as Prince
Right: the Prince Formerly Known as Prince

Some major Grant roles: In the Heat of the Night; Shampoo (50 years ago) for which she won Best supporting actress Oscar; had a short-lived TV series, Fay, in '75-6. My favourite Grant role: wife of doomed astronaut in '69 film Marooned, a film that eerily predicted the Apollo 13 mission.

Happy 100th birthday to actress/director Lee Grant (née Lyova Haskell Rosenthal) whose long career saw her in film, theatre and TV from 1951 to 2020 (career interrupted for 12 years by refusing to name names to HUAC). 1/2

The Department of History at Queen’s University seeks a postdoctoral fellow to start July 1, 2026. Applications are due on January 15, 2026 for the Marjorie McLean Oliver Post-Doctoral Fellowship. The full position description can be found here: www.queensu.ca/history/abou...
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