Professor Stephen Brooke presents a significant and revealing new view of London in the 1980s in his book London, 1984: Conflict and Change in the Radical City. Recently published by Oxford University Press, London, 1984 explores two conflicting cities during a tumultuous time in London. One side established on radical politics while the other side […]
Professor Boyd Cothran in York University’s Department of History, and Adrian Shubert, Professor Emeritus, recently published a new book, The Edwin Fox: How an Ordinary Sailing Ship Connected the World in the Age of Globalization, 1850-1914 (University of North Carolina Press, 2023), detailing the history of the Edwin Fox, a seemingly unremarkable merchant ship vessel […]
Stewards of Splendour: A History of Wildlife and People in British Columbia dives into the contentious and often polarizing history of human relationships with wildlife in Canada’s western-most province. Taking as its scope the pre-1770s period of Indigenous land stewardship to the present, the book explores the ways that Indigenous communities, scientists, hunter-conservationists, and naturalists have […]
When and Where Tuesday, November 14, 2023 6:00 pm to 8:00 pmWilliam Doo Auditorium (Lower Floor) 45 Willcocks St, Toronto, ON M5S 2H3 Description Join us for a multimedia presentation, panel discussion and double book launch focused on post-revolutionary Iranian popular culture in "Tehrangeles" (Tehran + Los Angeles), home to the largest concentration of Iranians outside of Iran. The […]
Congratulations to Brandon Lamorena, whose essay for Deborah Neill’s HIST 3844, ““A land without people for a people without land”” has been chosen as the third-year winner for the 22-23 LA&PS Writing Prize. Congratulations, as well, to Albert Duan and Guillaume Jean, whose “On the Other Side of War”, done for Jennifer Bonnell’s HIST 4840 […]
Dagomar Degroot, Associate Professor of Environmental History, Department of History, Georgetown University Date: Thursday, October 26, 2023Time: Reception at 3 p.m. | Lecture at 3:30 p.m.Location: Executive Dining Room, Schulich School of Business More information >
Pictured from left to right: Professor Margaret Schotte, Angela Zhang, Noa Nahmias, Marlee Couling, Professor Kate McPherson.
Congratulations to Adrian Shubert and Antonio Cazorla-Sánchez on the establishment of the Virtual Museum of the Spanish Civil War, featured in The Guardian news article: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/oct/10/virtual-spanish-civil-war-museum-aims-to-cut-through-political-divide
Congratulations to Professor Emeritus Adrian Shubert who received the “Encomienda de la Orden de Isabel La Católica”—a prestigious medal granted by His Majesty King Felipe VI of Spain—for contributions to the field of Modern Spanish History. Congratulations on the presentation of this extraordinary honour. The following excerpt is taken from the Sept. 28 Issue of […]
Many congratulations to our colleague Nicholas Rogers, who has recently published his new book, Bad Blood in Georgian Bristol: The Murder of Sir John Dineley, co-written (with Steve Poole) and published by the Regional History Centre University of the West of England/Redcliffe Books. "In 1741, Sir John Dineley, a gentleman with substantial west country land […]