Today in Labor History January 26, 1808: Soldiers took over New South Wales, Australia, during the Rum Rebellion. It was Australia’s only military coup. At the time, NSW was a British penal colony. William Bligh was governor of the territory. This was the same William Bligh who was an officer under Captain Cook when he attempted to kidnap the King of Hawai’i. He was also the same William Bligh who was overthrown in the Mutiny on the Bounty, in 1789. It is questionable why the British thought he’d do better in charge of a bunch of prisoners and unruly soldiers, than he did with a bunch of sailors. Perhaps they were just desperate. One of Bligh’s commissions was to reign in the Rum Corps, which held a monopoly on the illegal rum trade in Australia. They also controlled the sale of other commodities. Bligh started to enforce penalties for the illegal sale and importation of liquor. He also tried to provide relief to farmers, suffering from recent flooding and price-gouging by the Rum Corps, by providing provisions from the colony’s stores. The monopolists didn’t like his looting of the stores, from which they were profiting handsomely, nor his enforcement of the liquor laws. So, they arrested him and deported him to Hobart, Van Diemen’s Land. The military remained in control of NSW until 1810.

#workingclass #LaborHistory #hawaii #captaincook #williambligh #mutiny #bounty #australia #prison #colonialism #rum #rebellion #novel #film #tasmania #books #author #writer #fiction @bookstadon

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“These would have been extraordinarily sought after in 18th-century Britain, during the golden age of shell collecting when single specimens could sell for thousands of pounds.”

Shells From Captain Cook’s Final Voyage Were Rescued From a Dumpster.

Long presumed lost, the collection of rare shells is now on display in England

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/rare-now-extinct-sea-specimens-from-an-18th-century-collectors-lost-trove-have-been-rediscovered-180983947/ #shells #CaptainCook #18thCentury #history

@SmithsonianMag

Funny thing last week with #accents — for context, my visual acuity and #ventral stream are stronger than average, but I've got some #AuditoryProcessingDisorder or auditory #agnosia so that listening to thick accents is like watching with subtitles that autocorrect.

An audio-only Welsh accent said "Cally Cook" but I heard the word "Kirk". Then it hit me that #CaptainKirk and #CaptainCook are both famous captains … COULD THEY BE the same name on purpose?

Guess what: James Cook, James Kirk.

Three-decade campaign by the #Gweagal community of #LaPerouse sees repatriation of four spears to #Kamay. #Australia

Spears taken by #CaptainCook at #BotanyBay returned to traditional owners after more than 250 years | Indigenous Australians
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/apr/24/captain-cook-spears-botany-bay-returned-gweagal-community-kamay

Valentine's Day marks death of James Cook, a significant day for Native Hawaiians https://www.hawaiipublicradio.org/local-news/2023-02-13/valentines-day-marks-death-of-james-cook-a-significant-day-for-native-hawaiians #history #hawaii #CaptainCook #valentinesday #valentines

Today in Labor History February 14, 1779: Indigenous Hawaiians killed Captain James Cook near Kealakekua, on the Big Island of Hawaii after Cook attempted to kidnap Kalaniʻōpuʻu, the ruling chief (aliʻi nui) of the island of Hawaii.. The site is near the modern town of Captain Cook.

Happy #CaptainCook day.

Just a thought - perhaps the statutes of #CaptainCook that were toppled for #InvasionDay could be replaced with a statue of #LowitjaODonoghue

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-02-06/lowitja-odonoghue-australia-aboriginal-affairs/103433126?utm_source=abc_news_app&utm_medium=content_shared&utm_campaign=abc_news_app&utm_content=other

Today in Labor History January 26, 1808: Soldiers took over New South Wales, Australia, during the Rum Rebellion. It was Australia’s only military coup. At the time, NSW was a British penal colony. William Bligh was governor of the territory. This was the same William Bligh who was an officer under Captain Cook when he attempted to kidnap the King of Hawai’i. He was also the same William Bligh who was overthrown in the Mutiny on the Bounty, in 1789. It is questionable why the British thought he’d do better in charge of a bunch of prisoners and unruly soldiers, than he did with a bunch of sailors. Perhaps they were just desperate. One of Bligh’s commissions was to reign in the Rum Corps, which held a monopoly on the illegal rum trade in Australia. They also controlled the sale of other commodities. Bligh started to enforce penalties for the illegal sale and importation of liquor. He also tried to provide relief to farmers, suffering from recent flooding and price-gouging by the Rum Corps, by providing provisions from the colony’s stores. The monopolists didn’t like his looting of the stores, from which they were profiting handsomely, nor his enforcement of the liquor laws. So, they arrested him and deported him to Hobart, Van Diemen’s Land. The military remained in control of NSW until 1810.

#workingclass #LaborHistory #hawaii #captaincook #williambligh #mutiny #bounty #australia #prison #colonialism #rum #rebellion #novel #film #tasmania #books #author #writer #fiction @bookstadon

New evidence emerges identifying the shipwreck Endeavour/Lord Sandwich

In 2022, we shared the news of our discovery of the shipwreck Endeavour/Lord Sandwich at the RI 2394 site in Newport Harbor, Rhode Island. Now there is even more compelling evidence.

http://sea.museum/explore/maritime-archaeology/deep-dive/evidence. #Endeavour #CaptainCook #Shipwreck

@seamuseum_

Turquoise waters

No dolphins that day, but a fine place to be nonetheless

Today in Labor History January 26, 1808: Soldiers took over New South Wales, Australia, during the Rum Rebellion. It was Australia’s only military coup. At the time, NSW was a British penal colony. William Bligh was governor of the territory. This was the same William Bligh who was an officer under Captain Cook when he attempted to kidnap the King of Hawai’i. He was also the same William Bligh who was overthrown in the Mutiny on the Bounty, in 1789. It is questionable why the British thought he’d do better in charge of a bunch of prisoners and unruly soldiers, than he did with a bunch of sailors. Perhaps they were just desperate. One of Bligh’s commissions was to reign in the Rum Corps, which held a monopoly on the illegal rum trade in Australia. They also controlled the sale of other commodities. Bligh started to enforce penalties for the illegal sale and importation of liquor. He also tried to provide relief to farmers, suffering from recent flooding and price-gouging by the Rum Corps, by providing provisions from the colony’s stores. The monopolists didn’t like his looting of the stores, from which they were profiting handsomely, nor his enforcement of the liquor laws. So, they arrested him and deported him to Hobart, Van Diemen’s Land. The military remained in control of NSW until 1810.

#workingclass #LaborHistory #hawaii #captaincook #williambligh #mutiny #bounty #australia #prison #colonialism #rum #rebellion #novel #film @bookstadon

How to kill a god: the myth of Captain Cook shows how the heroes of empire will fall

In the 18th century, the naval explorer was worshipped as a deity. Now his statues are being defaced across the lands he visited

#CaptainCook #Hawaii #Lono #apotheosis #History

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2022/jan/18/how-to-kill-a-god-captain-cook-myth-shows-how-heroes-of-empire-will-fall

Day 19 of the #LadysMagazineAdventCalendar: Travel Writing, both domestic and international, was hugely popular in this periodical. Domestic travel series or one-off pieces seem often to have been original, but the magazine also published abridged and extracted versions of expensive travel writing volumes which it “adapted for the ladies”, including its 5-year serialization of Cook’s third voyage, from which this engraving is taken. #travelwriting #Georgian #CaptainCook #imperialism