The Permanent Peoples' Tribunal's preliminary opinion found residential schools rose to the standard of genocide and crimes against humanity.

Alicia Carefoote This is the fifth post in a series about the Great Acceleration as a framework and reconnaissance for Canadian environmental history. The posts in this series are cross-p…

After Tkʼemlúps te Secwépemc 2021 announcement, communities searched for missing children, using archaeology to shift from harm toward truth, healing, accountability, and justice.

A travelling exhibition of testimonies from survivors of the Mohawk Institute residential school (called the Mush Hole) opened in Montreal on May 25.

Hot hōjicha tea is poured for guests at the start of the tour. Photo by Bang Nguyen. On a cloudy spring morning, I arrive at the corner of Second and Davis in Old Town Portland. I park my bicycle, then unpack my red backpack: two flasks of green tea, ten mugs, and a stack of …

This book focuses on one of the most contentious areas of English and Welsh poor law history: the exercise of petty tyranny by officials on the workhouse poor, drawing on many thousands of accounts of...

Exclusive: Villa Pilar, painted in 1940 during the surrealist artist’s stay in a Spanish sanatorium, will be displayed at London’s Freud museum A recently discovered painting by the surrealist artist Leonora Carrington, made during her confinement in a Spanish psychiatric hospital during the second world war, will go on public display for the first time in London this summer. Known as Villa Pilar, the work was painted in 1940 while Carrington was a patient at sanatorium Morales in Santander, after fleeing Nazi-occupied France after the arrest of her partner, the German artist Max Ernst. Continue reading...

ROME, ITALY—Phys.org reports that Elena Fiorin of Sapienza University of Rome and her colleagues looked […]

12 April 2022 marks the centenary of a dramatic strike led by Nottinghamshire female nurses at Nottinghamshire County Mental Hospital, Saxondale. They were protesting against wage cuts and increase…

The new Japanese Canadian Legacy Trail in the Slocan Valley brings the area’s painful history into sharp focus.

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London's Lost Hospitals from Medieval Wards to Floating Fever Ships – Guy's Chapel, Thu 14 May 2026 - Join Ross McFarlane on a journey through London's forgotten medical past, from abandoned Victorian...

The West Vancouver-based Indian Residential School Survivors Society has launched a federal action petition asking for continued funding for three healing and crisis support programs

Abstract. This article explores the history of the English prison reform movement from ‘below’ – that is, from the perspective of prison inmates. By highli

Convicts, Slaves and the Global Entanglements of New South Wales and Mauritius By Briony Neilson How did a pregnant, free, French-speaking Creole woman from Isle de France (Mauritius) come to be an…

First Nation communities warn that government must act as accounts face destruction, risking central part of Canada’s reckoning with its colonial legacy

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A groundbreaking overview of how disability studies can enrich interpretations of the past and make the profession of archaeology more inclusive and accessib...

By Katie Carson, Sarah Kittilsen, and Sean Carleton Canada 150—the sesquicentennial celebration of the country’s confederation—was marked with pomp and circumstance, as the Federal Government encou…

Very few archival items exist from Canada's First World War internment camps. But now, the Canadian War Museum in Ottawa is adding a hand-carved wooden chair to its collection thanks to a B.C. woman who got curious about its origins and reached out to CBC Montreal for help last year.

Green, Alex. A Perfect Turmoil: Walter E. Fernald and the Struggle to Care for America’s Disabled. : Bellevue Literary Press, 2025. 366 pp. $21.99 (paper), ISBN 9781954276420. Reviewed by Nicole Schroeder (Kean University) Published on H-Disability (April, 2026) Commissioned by Tulika Singh (University of Alberta)

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A class action alleging widespread physical, sexual and mental abuse of girls incarcerated at an institution described as a “house of horror” has been certified by the B.C. Supreme Court.