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Simon Newman @simonatmadison.bsky.social · Sep 15

Congratulations Karin! Really looking forward to your online book talk on Thursday at www.congregationallibrary.org/events/lineage

Simon Newman @simonatmadison.bsky.social · Aug 30

Tonight I am thinking of Reg Horsman. He taught me when I started grad school 43 years ago, and I was often his teaching assistant. Remembering many late nights, and many, many games of darts. RIP Reg. www.feerickfuneralhome.com/obituary/reg...

Obituary for Reginald Horsman at Feerick Funeral Home

Reginald Horsman, a distinguished scholar and beloved husband, father and professor, passed away peacefully in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on August 20th, 2025, at the age of 93. He was surrounded by his lo...

www.feerickfuneralhome.com

Simon Newman @simonatmadison.bsky.social · Aug 28

My story is just like your’s (and at the same universities🙂): a grant funding my undergraduate education, and then fellowships funding my graduate education in the USA. Nothing that I have achieved since then would have been possible without this support.

Cate Denial @cjdenial.bsky.social · Aug 28

So I came to the US on a fellowship that enabled me to work as a TA and pay my tuition out of the 11K I earned per year. I have absolutely no idea how I stretched 11K to pay 5K of tuition *and* live on. But I did.

Cate Denial @cjdenial.bsky.social · Aug 28

So I came to the US on a fellowship that enabled me to work as a TA and pay my tuition out of the 11K I earned per year. I have absolutely no idea how I stretched 11K to pay 5K of tuition *and* live on. But I did.

Simon Newman @simonatmadison.bsky.social · Aug 24

Basil plants went crazy this summer. No problem

Simon Newman @simonatmadison.bsky.social · Aug 20

You both look wonderful! Congratulations!

Simon Newman @simonatmadison.bsky.social · Aug 20

Congratulations!

Simon Newman @simonatmadison.bsky.social · Aug 20

Congratulations!

Simon Newman @simonatmadison.bsky.social · Aug 11

Variation on a Provençal Tomato Squash Gratin, with heritage and plum tomatoes, eggplant, zucchini, basil and thyme from the garden.

Simon Newman @simonatmadison.bsky.social · Aug 10

And that my father, who lived through the Blitz, sometimes cried as he listened to her sing “London Pride.” (Listen to the end to hear the full range of her magnificent four octave voice). Rest in Peace Dame Cleo. www.dailymotion.com/video/x29uw71

CLEO LAINE – London Pride (1976, HD)

Dailymotion video by Jürgen Grunewald

www.dailymotion.com

Simon Newman @simonatmadison.bsky.social · Aug 10

As a child my mother had listened to Dame Cleo and her husband Johnnie Dankworth practicing in the house next to my great grandmother’s house in London’s East End.

Simon Newman @simonatmadison.bsky.social · Aug 10

Somehow I had missed that Dame Cleo Laine had left us, at the grand age of 97. I met her at Winfield House in London, at an event honoring Dave Brubeck, and she was lovely. I was able to tell her that I had grown up listening to her music.

Simon Newman @simonatmadison.bsky.social · Aug 1

Cana Island, Door County, Wisconsin. Calm.

Simon Newman @simonatmadison.bsky.social · Aug 1

I am so sorry. You are in my thoughts.

Simon Newman @simonatmadison.bsky.social · Jul 29

Always happy to be back in Door County. The Wisconsin land of 🍒

Simon Newman @simonatmadison.bsky.social · Jul 26

Very sorry to hear this, and keeping my fingers crossed that a good new opportunity will soon appear.

Freedom Seekers: Stories of Black Liberation in the Am. Rev. @freedomseekers.bsky.social · Jul 4

A year before the Continental Congress ratified the Declaration of Independence, a 14 year-old boy named Prime escaped his enslavers and disappeared into New England. Read his story here: freedom-seekers.org/story/prime-...

Newspaper advertisement for a freedom seeker named Prime.

Simon Newman @simonatmadison.bsky.social · Jun 22

On a day when the world seems even crazier than usual, I hope people find a little peace and joy in the scenery I have been taking in. The Atlantic coast of County Kerry. 🇮🇪

Freedom Seekers: Stories of Black Liberation in the Am. Rev. @freedomseekers.bsky.social · May 28

Congrats to 2024-2025 Freedom Seeker intern Amanda Grant, who was recently named a recipient of the prestigious Beinecke Scholarship! news.wisc.edu/senior-amand...

Senior Amanda Grant, innovative artist and historian, awarded national Beinecke Scholarship

Amanda Grant, a rising senior at UW–Madison, is the recipient of the Beinecke Scholarship, a prestigious national honor that supports the graduate education of students with exceptional promise.

news.wisc.edu

Simon Newman @simonatmadison.bsky.social · May 20

I will miss many things and many people in Providence. This is near the top of the list…

Simon Newman @simonatmadison.bsky.social · May 18

Lovely afternoon tea to say goodbye to friends in Providence, in the beautiful Nightingale Brown house, where we have had offices.

Simon Newman @simonatmadison.bsky.social · May 15

Dessert at Al Forno in Providence this evening. Blissful.

Simon Newman @simonatmadison.bsky.social · May 14

When in Rhode Island…

Simon Newman @simonatmadison.bsky.social · May 13

An unexpected visitor to Brown President Paxson’s house this morning. File under unexpected sightings in Providence…

Amalia S. Levi @amaliasl.bsky.social · May 13

Pleased to have contributed this article about 'Ariadne', an enslaved girl in 19th c. Barbados.

It explores the methodological + epistemological issues of using colonial records of violence from the Caribbean for life writing about the enslaved.

www.tandfonline.com/eprint/GYMFT...

‘Runaway’ Ads as Records of Life Writing: Ariadne’s Story

This article explores the methodological and epistemological issues of using colonial records of violence from the Caribbean as a starting point for life writing about the enslaved. It does so thro...

www.tandfonline.com

Simon Newman @simonatmadison.bsky.social · May 9

Always great to catch up with Peter Onuf, the Great Conceptualizer, and a lovely human being.

Simon Newman @simonatmadison.bsky.social · May 6

Absolutely wonderful closertovaneyck.kikirpa.be/ghentaltarpi...

Closer to Van Eyck

The Ghent Altarpiece

closertovaneyck.kikirpa.be

Simon Newman @simonatmadison.bsky.social · Apr 30

Great lecture on the antebellum origins of American business ethics by @sethrockman.bsky.social

Simon Newman @simonatmadison.bsky.social · Apr 3

I really miss Bluebell Woods in Glasgow’s Pollok Park. What a lovely painting.

womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · Apr 3

Britain is home to almost half of the world’s bluebells, found in ancient or semi-natural woodlands, flowering in April and May. 'Bluebell woods' by contemporary UK painter Susan Entwistle #WomensArt

Painting of a woodland carpeted in light purple flowers and with slim tree trunks and fresh green foliage

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