Madeleine🏺
From Aotearoa NZ, currently living in London.
Lover of history, classics, archaeology, museums, the great outdoors, and the Oxford comma.
- Today's Connections... ridiculous.
- It’s the 151st anniversary of the crew of the Surat partying way too hard on New Year’s Eve and seeing in the new year by crashing the ship into Aotearoa New Zealand, whereupon the drunk captain tried to shoot a passenger - my great-great-great-great-great grandfather. Happy New Year everyone.
- The pettiness, the comedic value, no one did it like him.
- Terror Camp 2024 over and done. Thanks to the team behind it, what an incredible conference @terrorcamp.bsky.social
- Julian Sancton at Terror Camp is a 10/10 keynote. Madhouse at the End of the Earth is such a great book and it’s amazing to hear what went into its writing, and get deeper into the story of the Belgica.
- Has any other language come up with a better email sign off than “ngā mihi”? I think not. Another win for te reo Māori
- “There will be poems”
- Missing today’s #TerrorCamp keynote because I’m stuck in Winchester and can’t get home to London - all trains delayed due to the weather 😭
- Fisk coded
- If you ever feel embarrassed about your Spotify Wrapped, just know that in 2022 the last song in my Top 100 was the theme from Only Fools and Horses.
- That slightly manic feeling you get when research pays off and you suddenly have some beautifully relevant sources just waiting to be read.
- Pleasing view leaving the National Maritime Museum at Greenwich today.
- The orca whales wearing salmon hats trend has given social media feeds a thriller movie-like vibe for me, someone with an irrational fear of orca whales.
- Incredible turnout at the London hīkoi yesterday despite the rain. Something really beautiful about standing in the centre of London and hearing speeches and waiata in te reo Māori.
