Neil M Kennedy

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Cover of hardcover copy of Michael Haag’s book Alexandria: City of Memory.

Cover of hardcover copy of Dan Snow’s book Listening to Stone.

I’ve started on this Haag after ages on shelf, but finding it rather too self-consciously knowing and dull. I did a dry stone wall weekend ages ago with Dan Snow, up in English Harbour, and just started on one of his books. Wonderfully evocative, both monumental and small. Stone, art, aesthetics.

Cover of paperback edition of John Baxter’s non-fiction book The Most Beautiful Walk in the World.

Kim’s been enjoying this one, literary walks in Paris. I just finished Cat Jarman’s River Kings, on the Norse, a pretty good accessible synthesis of new work, though I found the prose not really to my taste.

A wonderful name indeed. There was a Marmaduke Dando in early 17thC Bermuda, and it always strikes me as a name to conjure with. An artist’s name. His property is where the Reefs hotel now sits. There was a merchant vessel Marmaduke in 1620s, I recall.

Shakespeare in Love! What a career, what a life.

Me too!! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Oh the childhood summers at Loch Carron, playing in the tidal pools, sailing. Sigh…

I've not seen any reference here to their arrival, unlike to NB or NS as you know, so it may have been a proposal only? There is a 1741 New York reference to expelling to St John's enslaved men associated with the urban uprising, but I'm not sure there is clear evidence the voyage left or arrived.

I've asked some friends at the Trust down there, so may turn out I'm wrong. The early 17thC documents aren't specific enough to be sure. Bermudians tried growing everything so I'd assume there was some trial runs of savoury.

@nickgushue.bsky.social's thesis with me last year thinks through some of this, though not about branded Screech specifically. The stuff to clean your paintbrushes with.

Bermuda was a contemporary colonizing population with similar origins, but savoury isn't grown there, though I see recently some specialty providers are selling savoury to gardeners. Thyme was the most common herb there as far as I've seen, as elsewhere.

Congratulations!

Natalie Zemon Davis Award for Best Graduate Student Paper (Paris 2025) Winner: Rosalind Rothwell, Duke University “Bringing ‘happiness to astrologers who wish to know the time’: Caste, clocks, and sovereignty in eighteenth-century French India”

I'm thrilled to have received the Natalie Zemon Davis Award from @sfhs.bsky.social for my paper on Tamil consumers, caste, and mechanical timepieces in 18C Pondicherry. NZD is such an inspiration to early modernists and it's a huge honor to receive this award!

Manchester University Press - Songs of Seven Dials Songs of Seven Dials - Browse and buy the Hardcover edition of Songs of Seven Dials by Matt Houlbrook

Brilliant talk and reflections from @tricksterprince.bsky.social about ‘Songs of Seven Dials’ at the double session of the Oxford Modern British History seminar and the Women’s, Gender and Queer History seminar. Even more excited to read this. manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526181954/

That is fantastic! Congratulations. What a rich subject.

What an extraordinary film. Not much of a fan of the genre either, but that was staggering.

The “throughout history” but objects.

I find my mind wandering each episode. Gilligan is a master of the saturated colour and the odd camera angle/space, to be sure. It is interesting how little social media buzz there has been after the first episode.

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A laundry folding flick, to be sure, but the fights are great and the visual quality is surprisingly high. The two main Thai and HK action stars are nicely matched. Better than most of the pile of Johnnie To action melodramas on the leaving list. My nan used to love a good beat’’em up.

The casting choice for the hedonist in ep2 is, well, a choice. Fucking hell

Not to mention how fucking well tailored the action sequences are, not a risen shoulder in the lot. @dieworkwear.bsky.social

@ranylt.bsky.social Ok, risking embarrassing myself, after a long tough day wanting some pure mindless action put on Kill Zone 2 on leaving list. It is a far better blocked and lit film than most of Hollywood can muster the energy for, better acting too. The fleeting transcendence you sometimes need

Happy Birthday! Looks like a fun night.

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Gorgeous!

The original one is so sweet!

Crikey!

Glorious.