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Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · 2d

The RHS is a membership organisation of 6500+ historians. We welcome applications to join us at any time. Our next closing dates are 13 October and 15 December.

We offer categories for all kinds of historians and at all stages of research, from Postgraduate to Fellow: bit.ly/46V8WOQ #Skystorians

Closing dates for next application rounds:
Mondays 13 October and 15 December 2025

The Royal Historical Society represents the interests of historical researchers in universities, libraries, archives, museums, heritage and broadcasting, as well as those engaged in public, community and family history research.

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Daniel Woolf 🇨🇦 @woolf-atthedoor.bsky.social · 2d

Today on @cfrcradio.bsky.social Dark Glasses, new music from Gary Bartz and Montreal's Kate Wyatt (who performs in Kingston this Saturday at 3 at the central public library!). Plus Karen Robinson, the Doxas Brothers, and lots of quartets and trios: Allison Au, @jodiproznick.bsky.social, Mike Murley.

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Daniel Woolf 🇨🇦 @woolf-atthedoor.bsky.social · 5d

They definitely have a nose for it.

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Daniel Woolf 🇨🇦 @woolf-atthedoor.bsky.social · 6d

‘Sorry mum. I’ve run the numbers again and it comes up the same. We just can’t afford a cat.’

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Daniel Woolf 🇨🇦 @woolf-atthedoor.bsky.social · 6d

The newest Heritage Minute from @historicacanada.bsky.social on the pioneering Canadian female zoologist Anne Innis Dagg and her lifelong study of giraffes. www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9qR...

NEW Heritage Minute: Anne Innis Dagg

YouTube video by Historica Canada

www.youtube.com

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Daniel Woolf 🇨🇦 @woolf-atthedoor.bsky.social · 7d

This looks really interesting--and available Open Access!

Mark Hailwood @markhailwood.bsky.social · 7d

Delighted to see our new book - The Experience of Work in Early Modern England - out now, and open access (free!)

doi-org.bris.idm.oclc.org/10.1017/9781...

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Daniel Woolf 🇨🇦 @woolf-atthedoor.bsky.social · 8d

The lethal warfighter at work.

PatriotTakes 🇺🇸 @patriottakes.bsky.social · 9d

Pete Hegseth accidentally flipping a skateboard into his nuts on live TV

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Daniel Woolf 🇨🇦 @woolf-atthedoor.bsky.social · 9d

Best known for SWAT's team leader Hondo Harrelson in mid-70s tv show, he was also a lead in at least 2 Disney flicks, 1969's Rascal and 1970's The Wild Country (in the latter against villain played by Morgan Woodward, who was exactly 13 days his elder).

Daniel Woolf 🇨🇦 @woolf-atthedoor.bsky.social · 9d

Born OTD 100 years ago, actor William Forrest Andrews (d 2013). Because of the mid-40s fame of his older brother Dana Andrews, he changed his own name to STEVE FORREST. While he never quite cracked the Hollywood A-list he had memorable lead TV roles such as British TV's art dealer/spy The Baron. 1/2

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Daniel Woolf 🇨🇦 @woolf-atthedoor.bsky.social · 10d

My review of @stefanbauer.bsky.social and Simon Ditchfield's edited collection A Renaissance Reclaimed: Jacob Burckhardt's Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy Reconsidered, in Marginalia Review of Books. www.marginaliareviewofbooks.com/post/moderni...

Modernity is a Predicament: On Jacob Burckhardt and the Italian Renaissance

Daniel Woolf on A Renaissance Reclaimed: Jacob Burckhardt's Civilisation of the Renaissance in Italy Reconsidered History is a peculiar discipline. It has long prided itself on its rules and canons, y...

www.marginaliareviewofbooks.com

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Daniel Woolf 🇨🇦 @woolf-atthedoor.bsky.social · 11d

One of the great songs of the late 60s.

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Daniel Woolf 🇨🇦 @woolf-atthedoor.bsky.social · 12d

Today marking exactly 2.5 years since we were adopted by our lovely rescue hound Layla, here assisting me with lecture prep. @jagwoolf.bsky.social

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Daniel Woolf 🇨🇦 @woolf-atthedoor.bsky.social · 13d

Wrapping up the Anglo-Saxon phase of my course today with rapid tour from Edw the Elder to Edw the Confessor, with stops at Athelstan, Edgar the Peaceful, Aethelreds, and Cnut and his sons. Special attention to that most formidable of late A-S queens, Emma of Normandy. And, of course, Lady Godiva.

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Daniel Woolf 🇨🇦 @woolf-atthedoor.bsky.social · 16d

Born OTD 100 years ago, veteran S. African/British actor Stratford Johns, whose most famous character was Detective Barlow in long-running Z-cars. Played regicide judge Bradshaw to Alec Guiness's Charles I in 1970 film 'Cromwell'. d 2002.

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Daniel Woolf 🇨🇦 @woolf-atthedoor.bsky.social · 16d

On @cfrcradio.bsky.social Dark Glasses at 2pm today we lead with a salute to B.B. King who would have turned 100 last week; new music from Trio of Bloom, Kate Wyatt, and Caity Gyorgy. Plus vintage Cassandra Wilson, Leonard Cohen and the Handsome Family. Tune in!

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Daniel Woolf 🇨🇦 @woolf-atthedoor.bsky.social · 17d

My vote for the coolest if most ambiguous name for a scholarly association. Who is the keynote this year? Livy? Polybius? It's quite difficult to follow Ephorus with his fragments of text delivery. And please, not Ammianus Marcellinus again. He does go on...

Sarah E. Bond @sarahebond.bsky.social · 23d

The Association of Ancient Historians meeting will be in Iowa City from April 16-18, 2026. For those new to the AAH, we have preset panel themes; you pick 1 to apply to. The theme overall is Ancient Exchanges in a Global Antiquity. See CFP: abstracts are due by December 1. aah.conference.uiowa.edu

AAH Annual Conference 2026 | The University of Iowa

The 2026 AAH Annual Meeting will take place in person at the University of Iowa in Iowa City, IA from April 16-18, 2026. We invite abstracts for papers of 15-20 minutes in length. Please submit anonym...

aah.conference.uiowa.edu

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Daniel Woolf 🇨🇦 @woolf-atthedoor.bsky.social · 17d

Buyer's remorse in action.

Fionna O’Leary @fascinatorfun.bsky.social · 17d

It irritates me that you do not have the guts to say ..that the guy who pays (the tariffs) is the purchaser….”

That’s IF you can get the parts at all

Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 17d

Farmer Is Pissed Off Because Of The Tariffs

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Daniel Woolf 🇨🇦 @woolf-atthedoor.bsky.social · 21d

Except now we actually DO have to worry about several governments headed by psycho killers with no compassion, and whether there is any truth in the book I read.

NewWaveAndPunk @punkandnewwave.bsky.social · 22d

Released on this day in 1977: Talking Heads: 77, the debut album by #TalkingHeads
youtu.be/zUi4S8e0j2M?si…

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Daniel Woolf 🇨🇦 @woolf-atthedoor.bsky.social · 21d

Happens to be our plan for the evening--doubtless for the same multiple reasons.

Daniel Woolf 🇨🇦 @woolf-atthedoor.bsky.social · 22d

But he may be best remembered for two different roles on Star Trek: asylum escapee Simon van Gelder in season 1's "Dagger of the Mind" (which Woodward later claimed the most exhausting role of his career) and s 2's (baddie again) Cpt Ron Tracey in "The Omega Glory".

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Daniel Woolf 🇨🇦 @woolf-atthedoor.bsky.social · 22d

Born OTD 100 years ago, veteran character actor Morgan Woodward (d 2019). Had a steady gig on late 50s western "Wyatt Earp" and was 16 different characters on "Gunsmoke". Cinematically, he was the villainous rancher Ab Cross in The Wild Country (1970) vs homesteaders Steve Forrest and Vera Miles.

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Daniel Woolf 🇨🇦 @woolf-atthedoor.bsky.social · 22d

RIP Robert Redford at 89. I recall seeing Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid as a 10 year old in 1969. So many other good films, and some early memorable TV roles such as a friendly angel of death in The Twilight Zone episode "Nothing in the Dark" 1962.

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Daniel Woolf 🇨🇦 @woolf-atthedoor.bsky.social · 22d

Born OTD 100 years ago, "King of the Blues", B.B. King. The guitarist and composer died in 2015 at the age of 89. Ranked no 6 by Rolling Stone Magazine among 100 greatest guitarists of all time.

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Daniel Woolf 🇨🇦 @woolf-atthedoor.bsky.social · 23d

PS. To mark Sept 13, I rewatched "Breakaway", the pilot episode. 50 years later...

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Daniel Woolf 🇨🇦 @woolf-atthedoor.bsky.social · 23d

It's an all Joni Mitchell day on @cfrcradio.bsky.social Dark Glasses today at 2, marking the release of her box set "Joni's Jazz". We'll interlace some of Joni's jazzier tracks from 70s onward with covers by other jazz performers including Ian Shaw, Colin Steele, Keith Jarrett and Caecilie Norby.

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