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History @ Dal, in Sipekne’katik. Studying the past lets us explore how and why things developed as they did; it also helps us see the present differently, and imagine different futures. history.dal.ca

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Dalhousie Department of History @dalhistory.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Our next Stokes seminar is a reschedule of Chioma Abuba's presentation of “Chiefs in African Intellectual History: Indigenous Knowledge Systems and the Ideological Maelstrom of 20th Century Nigeria” on March 31st from 11:35 – 12:55 in Marion McCain 1170. Also join on Teams at bit.ly/47nM4sl
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Dalhousie Department of History @dalhistory.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Our next Stokes seminar features Memorial University's Dr. Eamonn O'Keeffe. Eamonn will be presenting his paper called "Siblings or Subordinates" on March 24 from 11:35-12:55 in Marion McCain 1170. Join on Teams: bit.ly/4sQE2Af
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Dalhousie Department of History @dalhistory.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Many hearty congratulations to Dr. Liam Caswell, who successfully defended their PhD thesis on Thursday! 🎉Their thesis is titled "Spilling More Ink than Blood: The Royal Navy and the Preservation of Britian's Informal Empire in China, 1929-1939." Bravo Zulu Liam!
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Dalhousie Department of History @dalhistory.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Dr. Jack Bouchard will be giving a talk based on his new book: 'Terra Nova: Food, Water, and Work in an Early Atlantic World' at 7pm, Friday, March 20, Room 1020, Rowe Management Building (6100 University Avenue). All are welcome - please do pass word along to anyone you think might be interested.
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Dalhousie Department of History @dalhistory.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
Our next Stokes seminar features Dalhousie's Ajay Parasram. Ajay will be presenting a work-in-progress paper called "Transnational Memsahibs: Nova Scotian Missionaries and Imperial Patriarchy in 19th/20th century Trinidad"on March 3 from 11:35-12:55 in Marion McCain 1170. Copies avail @History Dept
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Dalhousie Department of History @dalhistory.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Build your career at the Dalhousie Job and Career Fair on February 11. This free, in-person event connects DAL students and recent alumni with employers from across Canada to explore opportunities, network, and gain insight into today’s job market. Pre-register: mycareer.dal.ca/eventregistr...
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The English Historical Review @enghistrev.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
New article on Open Access: Artemis Photiadou on 'The ABCs of Nazism: The Political Screening and Classification of German Prisoners of War in Britain in the Aftermath of the Second World War' academic.oup.com/ehr/advance-... @lsehy.bsky.social
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The ABCs of Nazism: The Political Screening and Classification of German Prisoners of War in Britain in the Aftermath of the Second World War*
Abstract. Nearly half a million German prisoners of war were in Britain when the Second World War ended, all of whom were sorted into one of three categori
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Dalhousie Department of History @dalhistory.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
Our next Stokes seminar features King's Kirsty Schut, presenting a mock job talk on "Dying to be Monks: Lay Death and Burial in Religious Habits." on 3 February from 11:35 – 12:55 in Marion McCain 1170. This will be lecture format with a question period and feedback/brainstorming session.
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Dalhousie Department of History @dalhistory.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Our next Stokes features Dal’s Chioma Abuba, who will be presenting “Chiefs in African Intellectual History: Indigenous Knowledge Systems and the Ideological Maelstrom of 20th Century Nigeria” on January 27, from 11:35 – 12:55 in Marion McCain 1170 and via Teams. This will be a lecture format.
African chiefs indigenous knowledge systems
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Karin Wulf @kawulf.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
Friends, I hope you’ll share this widely. The @jcblibrary.bsky.social is hiring 2 3-yr research associates for collaborative work on religions and freedoms in the early Americas. Info is here and I’m happy to take questions offline: brown.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/staff-...
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Job Description: The John Carter Brown Library, located on the campus of Brown University, has one of the world’s most significant collections relating to the history of the early Americas, particular...
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Dalhousie Department of History @dalhistory.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
Many hearty congratulations to Dr. Chioma Abuba, who successfully defended her PhD thesis on Monday! 🎉 Her thesis is titled "Constructing Igboness: Ethnicity, Culture, and Social Change in 20th Century Southeastern Nigeria."
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Department of English, Dalhousie U @dal-english.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
Congratulations to our colleague Billy Johnson on the publication of his monograph, *Publishing Place: Transatlantic Modernity and Periodical Culture on Canada’s East Coast*! @dalhousie.bsky.social @dallibraries.bsky.social @dalhistory.bsky.social
A picture of the book cover, showing Saint John Harbour.
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Dalhousie Department of History @dalhistory.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
Join us on Tuesday Dec. 2, 11:30 am, for the final Stokes Seminar of the term. Phil Zachernuk will present, "The problem with "African" in Modern African Intellectual History: some reflections and a heuristic gambit." In McCain 1170, and on Teams. Copies will be available in the dept. office.
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Canadian Historical Association | Société historique du Canada @cndhistassoc.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
Responsable intérimaire des archives et directeur.rice principal.e de la recherche. Date limite des candidatures : jusqu’à ce que le poste soit pourvu. #histoire #cdnhist cha-shc.ca/fr/carrieres...
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Canadian Historical Association | Société historique du Canada @cndhistassoc.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
Interim Head of Archives and Senior Director of Research. Deadline: applications are open until the position is filled. #cdnhist cha-shc.ca/careers-and-...
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Canadian Historical Association | Société historique du Canada @cndhistassoc.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
Have you written an excellent article on women’s and gender history in Canada? If so, please consider submitting it for the French or English Hilda Neatby prize by January 1st. The prizes will be awarded at the CHA’s annual meeting in Charlottetown. #cdnhist #prize
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Prizes | History of Canada | Canadian Historical Association
The CHA awards many successes throughout the year. Here are some of the prizes that could be awarded to you, as a historian.
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Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · 19/11/2025
Join us online, at 2.30pm this afternoon, for the launch of our new co-hosted Applied History Fellowships for postdoc historians, with @ihr.bsky.social & DC Thomson bit.ly/4ofWArN Fellowships will enable holders to develop historical skills for use in workplaces beyond higher education #Skystorians
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New programme of 'Applied History Fellowships': launch and introductory event - RHS
In 2025-26 the Institute of Historical Research (IHR), Royal Historical Society and DC Thomson will launch a new Applied History Fellowship partnership. Join us at this online session -- 2.30pm on Wed...
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Dalhousie Department of History @dalhistory.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
A very happy book release day to Katherine Crooks, whose first monograph, "At Home in the Cold: Domestic Culture in Arctic Exploration, 1890–1940" is out today! Katherine did her PhD with us, and is now a postdoctoral fellow at MSVU. Congratulations, Katherine! www.mqup.ca/Books/A/At-H...
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At Home in the Cold
In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the idea of home came into focus as a place of warmth and comfort, associated with interior spaces and feminine touches. In the same period, writi...
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Acadiensis @acadiensis.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
CFP: Acadiensis is seeking contributions for our Present and Past series. Take a look ... acadiensis.wordpress...
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Buckinghamshire Archives @bucksarchives.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Hoping this helps our colleagues across the industry
A meme of 'Is this an archive?' showing a grid with various classifications of things that might be archives based on their content and structure.
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Halifax Regional Municipality @hfxgov.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Did you know today, Nov. 6, is World Digital Preservation Day? This year's theme is 'Why preserve?'. In this video, Renée from the Halifax Municipal Archives team shares her thoughts on the importance of preserving digital information for the long term. Learn more at: halifax.ca/archives #WDPD2025
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Celtic Studies at St FX University @celticstfx.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
Call for Papers - Celtic Studies Association of North America (CSANA) annual conference to be hosted by the Dept of Celtic Studies @stfx-university.bsky.social 7-10 May 2026. #CelticStudies
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Acadiensis @acadiensis.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
CFP: Rebellion, Resistance, and Refuge: Slavery and Border-Crossing during the American Revolution, July 9-July 12, 2026, UMass-Amherst Deadline for Abstracts: Friday, December 19, 2025
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Call for Abstracts: Academic Conference - Black Maple
Rebellion, Resistance, and Refuge: Slavery and Border-Crossing during the American Revolution Call for Abstracts: Academic Conference Dates: Thursday, July 9 to Sunday, July 12, 2026 Location: University of Massachusetts, Amherst,...
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Dalhousie Department of History @dalhistory.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
Our next Stokes features Dal’s Kassandra Luciuk, who will be presenting “Spies, Scandals, and Sabotage in Canada’s Wartime Bureaucracy” on 4 Nov., from 11:35 – 12:55 in Marion McCain 1170 and via Teams. Note: this is a lecture rather than a pre-circulated paper - one of our new formats this year!
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Dalhousie Department of History @dalhistory.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
The Dalhousie Department of History invites you to the Stokes Seminar, Oct. 28. Our speaker is Justin Roberts, with his paper entitled “Wild Subjects: Mountains, Mobility and Infrastructure in Jamaica and Scotland, 1720-1746.” 11:30 am - 1 pm, live in rm. 1170 of the McCain building, and via Teams.
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Faculty of Arts at Saint Mary's University @smuarts.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
The Department for the Study of Religion invites all to a public presentation on Sunday, Oct. 26, "Muslim and Jew: A Love Story" at St. Andrew’s United Church, 5:30-7:30 pm. The speakers are Dr. Syed Adnan Hussain of SMU and Dr. Eva Mroczek of @dalclassics.bsky.social. More info: loom.ly/t-4GdqE
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Canadian Historical Association | Société historique du Canada @cndhistassoc.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
Professeur.e – Histoire (Canada-Québec). Date limite : le 8 décembre 2025. #cdnhist #histoire #québec #laval #skystorians cha-shc.ca/fr/carrieres...
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Canadian Historical Association | Société historique du Canada @cndhistassoc.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
Professor – History (Canada-Québec). Deadline: December 8, 2025. #cdnhist #québec #laval #skystorians cha-shc.ca/careers-and-...
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Dalhousie Department of History @dalhistory.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
Congratulations to Dr. Grace McNutt on her successful PhD defence yesterday, with her thesis "Women on the Water: The Feminine Seascape Onboard Nova Scotia’s Nineteenth Century Deepwater Merchant Sailing Vessels." Dr. McNutt will soon begin a postdoctoral fellowship at CBU. We're proud of you!
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Acadiensis @acadiensis.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
The latest issue of Acadiensis is now available.
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Acadiensis Vol. 54 No. 1 is now available
We are pleased to announce the release of Acadiensis, Vol. 54, No. 1! This issue features collaborative research articles, as well as critical reviews examining award-winning texts on the Atlantic …
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Dalhousie Faculty of Graduate Studies @dalgradstudies.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
Grace McNutt from the Department of History is defending their PhD thesis today at 9:30 A.M. Good luck, Grace! #DalDefender Attend in person in room 3107 of the Mona Campbell Building (1459 Lemarchant St)
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Nova Scotia Museum @novascotiamuseum.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
Treaty Day marks the start of Mi'kmaw History Month in Nova Scotia. The goal of the month is to help Nova Scotians build awareness of Mi’kmaw history & heritage & to increase understanding of the province’s rich Mi’kmaw culture. We are all Treaty People. archives.novascotia.ca/mikmaq/resul...
A page from the Peace and Friendship Treaties at the Nova Scotia Archives.
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Canadian Historical Association | Société historique du Canada @cndhistassoc.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
Professeur.e adjoint.e – Histoire. Date limite : le 30 novembre 2025. #cdnhist #histoire #skystorians cha-shc.ca/fr/carrieres...
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Canadian Historical Association | Société historique du Canada @cndhistassoc.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
Assistant Professor – History. Deadline: November 30, 2025. #cdnhist #skystorians cha-shc.ca/careers-and-...
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Nova Scotia Museum @novascotiamuseum.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
Visitor Services Staff at the Museum of Natural History in Halifax, Nova Scotia. jobs.novascotia.ca/job/HALIFAX-... #MuseumJobs #NovaScotia
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Canadian Historical Association | Société historique du Canada @cndhistassoc.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
Professeur.e adjoint.e – Histoire des États-Unis. Date limite : le 2 novembre 2025. #cdnhist #histoire #skystorians #mcgill cha-shc.ca/fr/carrieres...
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Canadian Historical Association | Société historique du Canada @cndhistassoc.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
Assistant Professor – U.S. History. Deadline: November 2, 2025. #cdnhist #skystorians #mcgill cha-shc.ca/careers-and-...
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Canadian Historical Association | Société historique du Canada @cndhistassoc.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
Bourse de maîtrise ès arts – La désindustrialisation en Amérique du Nord. Date limite : le 15 décembre 2025. #cdnhist #histoire #UNB @histstudiesunb.bsky.social cha-shc.ca/fr/carrieres...
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Canadian Historical Association | Société historique du Canada @cndhistassoc.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
MA Fellowship – Deindustrialization in North America. Deadline: December 15, 2025. #cdnhist #skystorians #UNB @histstudiesunb.bsky.social cha-shc.ca/careers-and-...
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Dalhousie University @dalhousie.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
Labour disruption ends: Dalhousie Board of Governors and DFA reach tentative agreement: ow.ly/YwCi50WXi8f
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Labour disruption ends: Dalhousie Board of Governors and DFA reach tentative agreement
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Tara Nummedal @tnummedal.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
Please circulate - we are hiring in Early Modern European history!
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Brown University - Early Modern European History, Brown University | H-Net
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Acadiensis @acadiensis.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
We're Baaa-aack!! On the blog ... Michael Boudreau welcomes us to the 2025-2026 academic year with "'one of the wickedest crimes ever committed in this part of the country': The Execution of John Oliver, Saint John, New Brunswick, 1942":
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“one of the wickedest crimes ever committed in this part of the country”: The Execution of John Oliver, Saint John, New Brunswick, 1942
By Michael Boudreau[1] John Arthur Oliver, age sixty-three, was charged with the murder of Sgt. Herbert Lobb, a member of the Royal Canadian Ordnance Corps. on the afternoon of Saturday, December 2…
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Acadiensis @acadiensis.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
Please check out the following Call for Contributors for The Oar: New Brunswick's Popular History Magazine.
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Call for Contributions for The Oar: New Brunswick’s Popular History Magazine
Since 1985, when it began as a quarterly newsletter for the Fredericton Region Museum, The Officer’s Quarters has been an important part of the work of the York-Sunbury Historical Society in docume…
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Dalhousie Department of History @dalhistory.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
Job posting: The Roper-Hannah Chair in the History of Healthcare and Health Equity Dalhousie and the University of King’s College in Halifax, NS invite applications for this tenure stream, junior or mid-career position. Deadline October 1, 2025. Learn more: dal.peopleadmin.ca/postings/19481
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Roper-Hannah Chair in the History of Healthcare and Health Equity
Roper-Hannah Chair in the History of Healthcare and Health EquityDALHOUSIE UNIVERSITYand theUNIVERSITY OF KING’S COLLEGEDalhousie University and the University of King’s College in Halifax, Nova Scoti...
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Halifax Humanities @halhum101.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
Applications for Halifax Humanities 101 are now OPEN! If you love reading and discussing big questions, and are based in the Halifax Regional Municipality then this FREE 8-month great books course might be for you! Visit our website to learn more or to apply: halifaxhumanitiessociety.ca
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Acadiensis @acadiensis.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
CFP: Atlantic Medieval and Early Modern Conference at Crandall University, 24-25 October. Please Note: Proposals are due by 25 August. acadiensis.wordpress...
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CFP: Atlantic Medieval and Early Modern Conference
Please join us in Moncton (NB) for this year’s conference, co-hosted by the Université de Moncton and Crandall University. A reception and keynote lecture will be held on the evening of October 24 …
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Dalhousie Department of History @dalhistory.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
Congratulations to Dr. Ajay Parasram, one of the recipients of this year's President's Research Excellence Award for Research Impact! Dr. Parasram is an associate professor with International Development Studies and History. Learn about this year's honourees in DalNews: www.dal.ca/news/2025/07...
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Recognizing the minds behind the momentum: Dal’s 2025 research awards
Dalhousie honours research excellence across disciplines — from sleep science to ocean sustainability, digital health to decolonized data.
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Canadian Historical Association | Société historique du Canada @cndhistassoc.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
Deux offres d'emploi : Professeur.e associé.e et professeur.e adjoint.e – Conservation numérique et patrimoine culturel. Date limite : le 8 septembre 2025. #cdnhist #histoire cha-shc.ca/fr/carrieres...
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Canadian Historical Association | Société historique du Canada @cndhistassoc.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
Two job postings: Associate Professor & Assistant Professor – Digital Curation and Cultural Heritage. Deadline: September 8, 2025. #cdnhist cha-shc.ca/careers-and-...
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