Author: Haureh Hussein

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12/01/2024

When Marsden arrived in the Bay of Islands for Christmas 210 years ago.

This article summarises an article by Zana Bell “Marsden’s first Christmas” published by New Zealand Geographic in 2006.1 As the festive season approaches, we often reflect on traditions and moments that have shaped our celebrations. In Aotearoa New Zealand, one such pivotal moment is the first Christian service held on…

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11/18/2024

From Pilot Whales to Whalers: The Forgotten Story of Milford Haven

This blogpost is a brief summary of an article of Andrew Green “Wales and whales”.1 In 2016, unusual sightings of long-finned pilot whales off the Welsh coast caught the attention of locals and cetologists. These majestic creatures, rarely venturing from the deep sea, were likely following squid and small fish…

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05/06/2024

Academic Twitter blogs – 2/2

Similar to the post of last month, in continue with the remaining 20 blogs, ranging from discussions of academic writing to reflections on research methods and career advice. I drew back on the article of Andrea Hayward, which she wrote in April 2018 for the “editage insights”.1 Enjoy reading the…

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04/28/2024

Academic Twitter blogs – 1/2

I am currently in a deep writing phase myself, so I regularly look for writing guidance and inspiration to develop my writing. As you can imagine, the landscape of online science communication and outreach is thriving, with researchers and academics using various platforms to share their insights and experiences. Among…

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10/12/2023

Aotearoa New Zealands election 2023

In view of the upcoming elections of in Aotearoa New Zealand, the interpreter has published a little comment of the current political situation.1 This blogpost offers give a little summary. Aotearoa New Zealand’s 2023 election is shaping up to be one of the most divisive in recent memory, with significant…

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03/30/2023

Backstory podcast:”Thar she blows – The history of whales and America”

Today, I would like to introduce you to the historical radio program and podcast “backstory”, which did run between 2008 and 2020. Ayers, Brian Balogh, Peter Onuf, Joanne Freeman and Nathan Connolly gathered a variety of topics from the news and “explored its roots through the American past”.1 Despite the…

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02/27/2023

Whaling Logbooks or “The art of whaling”

Today, I would like to shed light on the “Public domain review” (PDR) Journal. It is a non-profit public Journal that also keeps a blog about a vriety of topics. On their homepage, they introduce themselves with the following words: “Founded in 2011, The Public Domain Review is an online journal and…

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01/12/2023

He literally “killed himself by excessive drunkenness and his wife is very much addicted to the same vice” – The fate of William Puckey (1776-1827)

In November 2022, I wrote an article for the German Historical Institute London, where I summarized one specific archive finding during my research fellowship, which I kindly received from them between September and November 2021. The interaction between Missionaries and Whalers at the Bay of Islands is considerably well recorded…

Haureh Hussein · German Historical Institute London Blog

11/22/2022

Māori Iwi, Quaker Whalers, and Missionaries at the Bay of Islands in Aotearoa/New Zealand (1790–1840)

Among the many records of the Church Missionary Society (CMS) held in the Cadbury Research Library at the University of Birmingham are minutes of a meeting of the CMS committee in London. At this meeting on 9 August 1819 the committee learned from a letter sent by the missionary Thomas…

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09/22/2022

Hello from Aotearoa!

This blogpost reaches you from Auckland in Aotearoa/New Zealand and was planned already some days ago, but no chance! Last week on the 17th September, I arrived in Auckland after a long flight of 33 hours, departing from Frankfurt over Hong Kong to Auckland. Experiencing a long-distance flight for the…

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07/26/2022

Prof. Tiya Miles: New Guinea and the Island of Nantucket.

Last year, on 31st August 2021, Professor Tiya Miles from the department of history at the Harvard University, published an article in The Atlantic about the Island of Nantucket entitled: “Nantucket doesn’t belong to the Preppies”.1 The article grew out not only from the vivid history of the island itself,…

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04/28/2022

The Basque Country: The place of Europe’s first whaling industry

In the first week of April I took off a week from the desk and went on vacation to Biarritz in the very south-western Part of France, close to the border of Spain. The Basque Country stretches from Bilbao, Pamplona, San Sebastian up to the Biarritz and Bayonne, and the…

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04/13/2022

Review: “Grass Huts and Warehouses, Pacific Beach Communities of the Nineteenth Century”

With this new blogpost, I would like to introduce you a new format of postings. During my research, I regularly encounter fascinating journal articles and monographs, which I consider as very relevant or useful, but sometimes i approach also titles, which will not find their way into my dissertation manuscript…

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03/13/2022

Logbook analysis: “William Hamilton” (1834-1837)

Some years ago, the Providence Public Library in Rhode Island has digitized its entire whaling logbook collection, which includes over 750 logbooks of American whaling voyages and covers an amazing time period between 1762 and 1931. The whole collection is now available through archive.org1 In order to receive a certain…

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12/28/2021

What my dissertation project would say about the year 2021 (2/2)

July to September 2021 – vacation, vaccination, and preparation In July 2021, I planned to take some weeks free from work, free from writing, free from reading articles and take a break of constantly thinking of my research project. Apart from visiting friends, applying for an UK visa, I used…

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12/27/2021

What my dissertation project would say about the year 2021 (1/2)

I had aimed to write this article already ealier in December 2021, yet the last month of the year literally rushed over me. I travelled back from my archive stay in the UK – (in retrospect I came back very timely before the rise of the new Omicron variant) –…