Hi friends: I'm assembling my file for promotion and want to include a list of classes where students read my work. Please let me know if you have assigned my books or articles! Thank you!! #History 🗃️
(Also, if you're assigning my work, THANK YOU and I'd love to Zoom with your class!)
And for those interested, the Steam Medieval Fest sale has just gone live! ;)
I'm with you. Many years on and it doesn't get easier. There are a few companies who recognize this and set up simple opt-outs of certain holiday promotions. I wish that was standard!
Without stating your age post your favorite film released the year you turned 18
40 count is truly challenging but the Sulky Holoshimmer is good for a textural and glimmer eye-catching nature to help with the counting (although I mostly top out at 32 count these days).
A stylized winter scene with snowflakes overlaying a sky in gradated blues behind snow-capped mountains with a few evergreens interlaced with waves of water in the foreground.
Begun March 21, completed April 17: Blizzard Valley, designed by Max Pigeon. Thank you cross stitch sanity savers for keeping me going this winter!
The gray box for Witch Hunt: 1649 stands next to a column of maroon text. The text reads, Call for reviewers! Below it are bullet points which read, free review copy, any medium, and open to many areas of expertise. Below this text is a smaller line which reads contact cmichpress@cmich.edu for more information.
Calling all gamers, historians, and fans of anything witch history-related! We are seeking content creators who would be interested in reviewing the revised version of Martha McGill's game, Witch Hunt: 1649. For more information, email cmichpress@cmich.edu.
#witchhunt1649game #callforreviewers
Come work in Laurentian's School of Social Sciences - my faculty is hiring an Indigenous colleague in Sociology: laurentian.ca/about/career...
We're fortunate to be represented by an awesome NDP MPP who gets it. I shower my wrath upon the ministers and may borrow some of your excellent points to feed my own letter-writing campaign.
Text of page 77 from Hannah Wolley's 1674 "A Supplement to the Queen-Like Closet" How to save much work and to make a suit of Chairs which be very noble. Let what draught you please be drawn upon a very coarse French-canvas. Then have your chairs cut out as you would have them, either of camlet or paragon. Put your stuff into a tent and then tack your canvas straight upon it. So work it in cross-stitch and take heed that you do not cleave the threads of the canvas in the working, nor work your worsted or silk too full. And when you have done, cut your canvas between your leaves and flowers and pluck out every thread one by one, and there will be your work very brave upon your own stuff, and will look very high. Then form it about with what coloured gimp you fancy best. And if you want skill to shadow, desire the drawer to direct you in the drawing of it. But then you must get an embroiderer to draw it, for no other can direct you right; and you had better not work then that which is ridiculous. This way saves the grounding or cutting out to embroider, and is much better and not common; therefore to be more esteemed.
Everything old is new again. In "A Supplement to the Queen-Like Closet" from 1674, Hannah Wolley describes a technique still used today: embroidering on fashion fabric by using "waste canvas." Modern materials marketed as such pull out easily or dissolve in water. Wolley would be jealous!
I would like to chime in in favor of luxuriously long and delicious footnotes. Spill your tea, give me your academic drama, tell me why you intentionally left so-an-so out, tell why we should look more at such-and-such. Take up an entire page with a footnote.
It's what NZD would have wanted from us
Not only pandemic, but then navigating our university going into insolvency, supporting fired colleagues & students blindsided by closure of some of our programs, followed by their unilateral merging of all Arts departments into one School. Worst time of my life!
I happen to know the perfect seventeenth century recipe books to jump-start your home distillation dreams!
We thought we were living in a cyberpunk dystopia but this is actually straight from Warhammer 40K. The machine spirit must be appeased using the proper rituals. Blessings affixed with purity seals will keep the cogitator functioning.
CSRS/SCÉR @csrs-scer.bsky.social final program now available: csrs-scer.com/congress-202.... Join us in Montréal, June 6-8!
Amazing video. Required viewing for the "board game literacy" curriculum.
A partially-completed stylized cross stitch landscape showing mountains and large snowflakes with some evergreen trees in the foreground.
Still far less snow in my cross stitch than in the great outdoors hereabouts. Maybe by the time I'm finished we'll be seeing more ground than snow? Maybe not.
Those are some stunning views!
this is real life
I’m so glad someone covered this story. Brian is an amazing scholar and person who I’ve been blessed to be able to get to know, even a little. What happened to him is awful
A large replica of a Canadian nickel coin stands on tall supports in a snowy landscape. The coin features a profile portrait and the text Georgivs VI Dei Gratia Rex around the edge. In the background, modern buildings with angular, glass and metal designs sit on a hillside, partially surrounded by snow and trees under a cloudy sky.
Sudbury:
James Worthington, the superintendent of construction on the railway through the area, chose the name in honour of Sudbury, Suffolk. That English community was the hometown of his wife Caroline. It became Greater Sudbury in 2001.
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"No one's ever really gone."
I know the tweet is Al generated when they use " ," before and.
“I will NOT sacrifice the Oxford comma. We've made too many compromises already; too many retreats. They assimilate the em dash and we fall back. They capture ‘not just X but y’ and we fall back. Not again. The line must be drawn here! This far, no further!”
What looks like little fish manifesting is just water and air running under ice along the side of our street. Winter can be weird.
Courtney is in fact speaking for me in this instance. Several is the time I would write something significant in Chapter Seventeen(ish) and then go back and add a couple of sentences in Chapter Three(ish) to make it look like I had been thinking about this plot twist all along.
(218) Some general and choice Rules for writing of Letters. First, what a letters is? It is or ought to be the express image of the mind, represented in writing to a friend at a distance, wherein is declared what he or she would do or have done. This excellent use we have of letters, that when distance of place will not admit union of persons,or converse viva voces, that deplorable defect is supplied by a letter or missive. And, indeed, the necessity of conversing one with another as long as we live, lays an unavoidable cogency of communicating our affairs each to other, without which friends at a distance could have no correspondence one with the other. Though it lies not in the power of everyone to make use of these excellent means for reciprocal communication, yet we see daily the illiterate and ignorant will make hard shifts rather than go without the benefit thereof, applying themselves to friends that can write, or, if they have none, to scriveners or other strangers, venturing their secrets with them,rather than their friend shall go without the knowledge of them.
Experts in 17thc pedagogical writing, I seek possible sources for extras shoe-horned into a 1673 book ascribed to Hannah Wolley, "The Gentlewoman's Companion" (which she disowned). One new element was guidance on letter-writing which I wonder might be recycled from another. Any ideas?
Red States: We are canceling all programs that don't support our theology.
Blue States: We're canceling all the same programs, but because they don't support our business school.
Tenure-track position in Canadian history at Lakehead!
In the foreground, a fluffy sable brown and white Shetland sheepdog sits, glancing back over his shoulder at a slide and other playground equipment buried in a few feet of snow, packed down by many tracks.
Snowpack is still a little deep in the park. Thankfully, Pippin and I mostly stayed on the top layer.
