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David Tough @davidtough.bsky.social · 03/02/2024

If I cite Frank Tough in something I write, should I specify that we are not related? (We necessarily share some ancestry, as it's an uncommon name that comes from a tiny village in Scotland.)

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David Tough @davidtough.bsky.social · 12/01/2024

Economists and public service people, does it make sense to say that Canada's Department of Finance deals with the economy as a whole macroeconomically while Treasury Board manages government expenditures microeconomically? Or is that too simplistic?

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David Tough @davidtough.bsky.social · 07/01/2024

Re plagiarism, I'm pretty convinced by the argument that when your scholarly work is mostly relating what happened with a given statistical/computational model or even lab tests, it's very likely you will use the exact same wording as many other people doing the same work.

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Jakob Burnham @jakobburnham.bsky.social · 04/01/2024

Any French historians know of a graduate student (ideally of the 18th C) who would like a chance to practice their paleography skills? I’m looking for someone to help me with a little project—compensated of course! Please share widely and feel free to reach out.

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David Tough @davidtough.bsky.social · 05/01/2024

It's an unavoidable occupational hazard, but the number of times I have Bobby Gimby's Expo67 song ("CA--NA--DAAA!") playing on a loop in my mind is ... a lot.

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David Tough @davidtough.bsky.social · 03/01/2024

I'm not 100% on this, but I think what people miss when they say historians should do counter-factuals and we don't, is that contingency - which historians do discuss - is a similar concept, bit much more open-ended and epistemologically rich.

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David Tough @davidtough.bsky.social · 03/01/2024

Hey @kellyb.bsky.social TRU is hiring someone to do an open online BC history course. It's a paid position - your favourite! - and potentially fairly easy to adapt existing course content.

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David Tough @davidtough.bsky.social · 24/12/2023

I've been thinking lately about the Princes in the Tower, 12-year-old Edward V and his 9-year-old brother Richard, who were imprisoned in the Tower of London "for their protection" in 1483 and never heard from again, while their uncle Richard III took the throne.

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 10/12/2023

the most insidious thing that any politician or media or cruel, malicious stranger can convince you of is that there are people who are not people in the same way you are. and i want to bring them to my job and shake them and tell them look, look at this grief, tell me this person is not my people

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David Tough @davidtough.bsky.social · 10/12/2023

Does anyone know a grad student or underemployed historian in the Waterloo area who would want to do a small amount of paid archival research?

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David Tough @davidtough.bsky.social · 07/12/2023

Ok, here's a funny story from my youth (undergrad, so technically early adulthood) about Canadian History/Canadian Studies at Trent in the 90s. I was in my 3rd year, it was March, and we had to register for courses in person at the department office.

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Jim Clifford @jimclifford.bsky.social · 06/12/2023

December 6, 1989 École Polytechnique massacre Geneviève Bergeron Hélène Colgan Nathalie Croteau Barbara Daigneault Anne-Marie Edward Maud Haviernick Maryse Laganière Maryse Leclair Anne-Marie Lemay Sonia Pelletier Michèle Richard Annie St-Arneault Annie Turcotte Barbara Klucznik-Widajewicz

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Subscatter @subscatter.bsky.social · 02/12/2023

The way politicians and pundits get ppl to care about "the economy" is so wild

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David Tough @davidtough.bsky.social · 30/11/2023

It's often hard for students to see history as a narrative practice, rather than a set facts that books tell you happened; people can easily understand their present reality as lacking in inherent meaning, but historical eras and events feel inherently narrative because their shape is so familiar.

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David Tough @davidtough.bsky.social · 29/11/2023

Missing my tiny adorable doppelganger today and every day. #grief

Photo showing a man and a little boy standing side by side, wearing surgical masks, shorts, and t-shirts. The man has glasses and is bald, the little boy has a blonde bowl cut and is holding a stuffed chicken.

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David Tough @davidtough.bsky.social · 28/11/2023

One of the realities of living in a consumer society, with easy access to credit, is that buying one commodity or another is rarely a stable referent for our class position. That's why we end up with weird freak outs about charcuterie boards and avocado toast that then just fizzle out.

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I Travel Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 24/11/2023

““Armed police raiding activists’ homes to execute warrants in the early morning is an egregious overreach,” said Irina Ceric, an assistant professor in the Faculty of Law at the University of Windsor. “It appears to be an attempt to intimidate and terrorize these activists.””

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In stunning pre-dawn raids, Toronto police ‘terrorize’ Palestine activists ⋆ The Breach

After operation that policing expert say may have cost 'seven figures', Toronto police pursuing hate-crime charges against activists who postered Indigo

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paulseesequasis @pseesequasis.bsky.social · 24/11/2023

Ingrid (oil) | Arthur Shilling (1941-1986) Anishinaabe

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David Tough @davidtough.bsky.social · 23/11/2023

Ok, I have an archives question for #canadianhistory colleagues: I am researching the 1969 White Paper on Indian Policy and hoping to look at Sally Weaver's research notes. Both U of Waterloo and the Museum of History have her papers, but each one claims the other has the bulk of them.

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âpihtawikosisân @apihtawikosisan.bsky.social · 22/11/2023

The impossibility of decolonizing settler institutions is affirmed in how these institutions consistently push Indigenous people out for refusing to condone genocide, ours, or anyone else's.

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David Tough @davidtough.bsky.social · 22/11/2023

Does anybody on here know why Ian McKay isn't the Wilson Chair anymore? #cdnhistory

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Sara Spike @saraspike.bsky.social · 21/11/2023

Hi hello I have created an open "Canadian History" feed tracking #cdnhist #cdnhistory #canadianhistory . Please follow, share, and use the hashtags to connect! bsky.app/profile/did:...

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irina cerić @irinaceric.bsky.social · 11/11/2023

The cognitive dissonance of bombing hospitals on Remembrance Day is just too much. I am the granddaughter of three anti-fascist partisans. I'm glad they're not here to see how we've squandered everything they fought for.

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Anupama Ranawana @msamrc.bsky.social · 11/11/2023

According to Al Jazeera English: All 39 premature babies at Al-Shifa Hospital’s neonatal unit have died. The hospital ran out of fuel for their incubators as Israeli shelling targeting the healthcare complex.

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Abigail Swingen @abigailswingen.bsky.social · 06/11/2023

I wrote a review of @tedmccormick.bsky.social's great book, "Human Empire: mobility and demographic thought in the British Atlantic World, 1500–1800," which you can read here: www.tandfonline.com/eprint/JFS56... Better yet, you should read Ted's book. #c17th #c18th #EarlyModern #skystorians

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Human empire: mobility and demographic thought in the British Atlantic World, 1500–1800

Published in History of European Ideas (Ahead of Print, 2023)

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Jonathan Floyd @jonathanfloyd.bsky.social · 10/11/2023

Hey BlueSky: If our economy is dominated by services, services by entertainment, and politics by culture wars, why exactly would we want to squeeze out the humanities in favour of STEM? Surely someone needs to think creatively + ethically about how to handle a world of robots, gamers, and populists.

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 08/11/2023

I’ve always known it because (gestures at history) but it’s never been clearer that some of us in this world just too ethnic, too not-white to be considered worthy of anything other than just dying in silence, unmourned & unnoticed. And heaven forbid we have an opinion about that, and express them

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David Tough @davidtough.bsky.social · 08/11/2023

I'm doing teaching prep for the medical history course I'm teaching this term, and really appreciating the work of Mary Jane McCallum, Erin Millions, Sarah Komarnisky, Maureen Lux, and Ian Mosby that I assigned for this coming week.

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Shirley Tillotson @stillots1.bsky.social · 23/10/2023

Nova Scotia history often includes some discussion of trade with the West Indies (the greater Caribbean). And our historians of slavery show that enslaved people in NS were bought and sold by white NSian traders in business with Caribbean counterparts. I have a story to add. 1/12

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David Moscrop @davidmoscrop.com · 03/11/2023

The story of Pearson and Diefenbaker’s rivalry is a great reminder that Canadian politics has always been a Greek tragedy. My review of Ibbitson’s excellent ‘The Duel’ for Globe Books. www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/books/r...

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Review: The Duel is a great guide to understanding both Canada’s past and present

In The Duel: Diefenbaker, Pearson, and the Making of Modern Canada, Globe and Mail columnist John Ibbitson has managed to deftly navigate through the Scylla and Charybdis of golden-ageism and presenti...

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