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NiCHE Canada @nichecanada.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Call for Papers - Feeling/Not Feeling Canadian: A Workshop Exploring Histories of Emotion in Canada 16 -17 June 2027, University of Winnipeg (Treaty No. 1 Territory), Winnipeg Manitoba Proposal Deadline: 30 November 2026 niche-canada.org/2026/09/22/c... #envhist #cdnhist #histemotion #affect

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Call for Papers - Feeling/Not Feeling Canadian: A Workshop Exploring Histories of Emotion in Canada

The workshop organizers invite proposals for panels and papers that highlight research about the history of emotions in Canada.

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Jane Voter @janevoter2018.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

To those under autocratic rule who have fought and voted against it: Much of Chaplin’s final speech in “The Great Dictator” on dictatorships rings true today. “…brutes have risen to power, but they lie, they do not fulfill their promise, they never will…” Congratulations on uniting Hungary!

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Charlie Chaplin - Final Speech from The Great Dictator

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Adam Rogers @jetjocko.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Yeah that’s cool

(See the quoted post for more; it’s a septagonal patch with the astronaut names around the edges and pictures of mythic animals and a stylized bird image at center)

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Stephen Clarke @stephenclarkenz.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

This ridiculous decision is a crying shame as it diminishes NZ in the eyes of the nations of Türkiye, France and Belgium. Most of all, it undermines our ability to follow in the footsteps of those New Zealanders who served and died for our nation. Lest We Forget. newsroom.co.nz/2026/03/16/c...

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Culture ministry axes Gallipoli site

A penny-pinching decision to dump a Gallipoli website 'spits in the faces of these communities where our dead lie'

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My IRL friends call me Chris @christyceeck.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

Almost 90 people being cut. Canadian historian Adam Chapnick, a professor of defence studies at the Royal Military College of Canada: “I don’t know how you justify this decision if you have any sort of commitment to history."

Library and Archives Canada is planning deep cuts to its access to information division that will put at risk its ability to comply with access and privacy laws, the department has acknowledged in a document.

The archives, or LAC, is the central storing house for historical records from across the federal government and is widely used by researchers and journalists. Records in its possession include previously classified files such as summaries of cabinet meeting debates or reports compiled by Canada’s intelligence officials.

The planned cuts threaten to worsen what is already a system in distress.

An in-depth Globe and Mail project called Secret Canada included a report based on interviews with dozens of historians, researchers, archivists and academics who regularly deal with LAC. They said the inability to access historical records from the archives had become so dire that Canadian historians now often rely on the public archives of other countries to do research.

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Daniel Rück @danrueck.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

Important new Guardian study: "UK museums hold more than 263,000 items of human remains from around the world, including whole skeletons, preserved bodies, such as Egyptian mummies, skulls, bones, skin, teeth, nails, scalps and hair." www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

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Vast scale of overseas human remains held in UK museums decried by MPs and experts

Exclusive: Guardian study finds UK museums hold more than 260,000 items of remains, often in sacrilegious ways

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Canadian History Ehx @cdnhistoryehx.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

Howie Morenz was a legend. Before Richard, Beliveau or Lafleur, he was the superstar of the Montreal Canadiens. Then a freak accident ended his career, and eventually, his life. He became a hockey immortal. This is the story of the Stratford Streak. 🧵 1/12

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Dr Lindsey Fitzharris @drlindseyfitz.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

My book, THE FACEMAKER, is about the pioneering surgeon Harold Gillies, who rebulit soldiers' faces during World War I. Gillies established the world’s first hospital dedicated entirely to facial reconstruction. /5

A photo of Harold Gillies sitting in an operating theatre during World War I, along with three nurses and another male staff member.

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Dr Lindsey Fitzharris @drlindseyfitz.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

Facial prosthesis, c.1917. THREAD for #InternationalWomensDay🧵 From the moment the first machine gun rang out over the Western Front, one thing was clear: mankind’s military technology had wildly surpassed its medical capabilities. Bodies were battered, gouged, hacked, and gassed. /1

Two black and white photos of a soldier who has received a facial injury during World War I. In the first photo, his injuries are on display. In the second photo, he is wearing a facial prosthetic (mask) that covers his injuries.

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Dictionary of Canadian Biography @dcb-dbc.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

It is #InternationalWomensDay! We highlight Mary Ann Shadd (Cary) (1823–93), educator, abolitionist, author, publisher, and journalist. By her mid-20s, she had gained recognition by articulating what would be her perennial themes: Black independence and self-respect. www.biographi.ca/en/bio/shadd...

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Daniel Rück @danrueck.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

LAC was already limping along on life support for years and now this.

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Sean Carleton @seancarleton.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

In light of Jean Chrétien's most recent denialist comments - story to come, basically he downplays the harm of the IRS system - I went down the rabbit hole researching how far Indigenous leaders lobbied him, as Minister of Indian Affairs in the 1960s and 1970s, to close the system 🧵

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

Breaking NYT: The Pentagon used a secret aircraft painted to look like a civilian plane in its first boat attack, according to officials briefed on the matter. The laws of armed conflict forbid combatants from feigning civilian status. That is a war crime called "perfidy."

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U.S. Attacked Boat With Aircraft That Looked Like a Civilian Plane

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Erin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

When we say "no, everything hasn't been digitized," I need you to understand that we really mean is that virtually nothing has been digitized. This is because the realm of primary sources that historians use is incomprehensibly large.

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Alex Bowers @bowerswrites.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

On Dec. 19, 1941 - 84 years ago today - Sergeant-Major John Osborn, serving with the Winnipeg Grenadiers, sacrificed his life to save his men amid the Battle of Hong Kong. For his actions, he earned the Victoria Cross. Here is my Legion Magazine story on him. legionmagazine.com/remembering-...

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Remembering John Osborn, V.C. - Legion Magazine

By Dec. 19, 1941, the Battle of Hong Kong had been raging for well over 10 days. The Canadians of ‘C’ Force, together with troops from the British Army, British Indian Army and the Hong Kong Volunteer...

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Historica Canada @historicacanada.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

Today is the National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence against Women. On this day, we honour those killed and injured during the École Polytechnique tragedy, and all women who experience violence. It is also a day to commit to ending gender-based violence.

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École Polytechnique Tragedy (Montreal Massacre)

On 6 December 1989, a man entered a mechanical engineering classroom at Montreal’s École Polytechnique armed with a semi-automatic weapon. After separating t...

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Harry Wallop @harrywallop.co.uk · 02/12/2025

Great culture can save lives. Literally. Amazing letter in today’s @thetimes.com about Tom Stoppard

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Alex Bowers @bowerswrites.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

Tomorrow at 2 p.m. EST, I'll be making my debut appearance on @ww2tv.bsky.social, alongside other guests, to pay tribute to the late, great Dr. Tim Cook of the Canadian War Museum. I wouldn't be where I am now, telling Canada's wartime stories, without him. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lioh...

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Tim Cook: A Titan of History - A Tribute Show

YouTube video by WW2TV

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History and Heritage Yorkshire @handhyorkshire.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

I have loved books as Christmas presents ever since I was a small child both giving and receiving. These days bookshops as much as the books are a delight for me from small and intimate to large where I can sit with a coffee like this one. A favourite

Waterstones bookshop in Bradford was originally the city’s Wool Exchange. The gothic revival building was constructed between 1864 and 1867. to a design by Lockwood and Mawson

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

The committee that settled on the phrase “underscoring his determination to challenge scientific orthodoxy” should be dissolved and its members compelled to take a remedial course on the scientific method.

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Tabatha Southey🇨🇦 @tabathasouthey.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

Massive shoutout out to whoever handles the Royal Canadian Air Force’s social media account. They responded to every single comment on their already very solid Trans Day of Remembrance post and they responded like this…

A screenshot of a Facebook post where a person named Andy ask the Well now “What the hell is transgender?”
The Royal Canadian Air Force account response with “That’s a pretty big question asked in a pretty small way, Andy.

‘Transgender’ putting describes someone whose gender – who they know themselves to be – doesn’t match the sex they were assigned at birth. It’s not new, and it’s certainly not a fad. People have lived this experience for as long as people have existed; we’re just finally talking about it openly.

You don’t have to fully understand it right away, most learning takes time, but we can always start from a place of respect. That’s how decent folks handle things they’re still getting used to.”

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Canadian History Ehx @cdnhistoryehx.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

Happy birthday to Fred Penner, born on this day in Winnipeg in 1946! His show Fred Penner's place aired from 1985 to 1997. He has won four Junos and has the Order of Canada. I did a deep dive into his life with an interview here 👇 canadaehx.com/2025/10/14/f...

An elderly man with a full white beard and bright blue eyes smiles warmly at the camera. He wears a brown-and-beige checkered fedora tilted slightly to one side and a light blue denim shirt with rolled-up sleeves. His left hand is raised, gently touching his beard near his chin. The background is dark and out of focus, keeping all attention on his friendly, twinkling expression.

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Historica Canada @historicacanada.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

En ce jour de 1918, le Corps expéditionnaire canadien en Sibérie est arrivé en Vladivostok. Le Corps fait parti d'une force formée par les Alliés pour soutenir les forces anticommunistes surnommées les «Russes blancs» pendant la révolution russe.

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Corps expéditionnaire canadien en Sibérie

En 1918, le Canada a envoyé des troupes en Russie, dans le cadre d’une intervention alliée destinée à soutenir les forces gouvernementales russes contre...

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Historica Canada @historicacanada.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

On this day in 1918, the Canadian Siberian Expeditionary Force landed in Vladivostok. They were there as part of an Allied force sent to support the anti-communist "White Russian" cause during the Russian Revolution.

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Canadian Siberian Expeditionary Force

In 1918, Canada sent troops to Russia as part of an Allied intervention to support Russian government forces against Bolshevik revolutionaries. One group of C...

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Hidetaka Hirota @hidehirota.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

Berkeley history graduate students reimagine their campus as a public history site. Topics include CA Indigenous history, relationship between CA and Asia/Pacific, campus policing, & campus protest. This is such an amazing project! @historians.org #AHAPerspectives www.historians.org/perspectives...

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New Campus Cartographies – AHA

Infusing historical research into walking tours has helped Andrew Hardy and his fellow graduate students remake their campus into a public history site.

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James G @orth.ca · 21/10/2025

George's full AB with in stadium audio only.

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Tao of Stieb @taoofstieb.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

I can still remember where I was 32 years ago. I wondered if being a Blue Jays fan would ever feel so good again. And here we are.

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Keerthika Uthayakumar @keerthikau.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

Raptors 🤝 Jays 1 of 6 teams to come back from down 2-0 in a conference championship series & make the Finals

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Blake Murphy @blakemurphy.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

Gausman the win, Bassitt the hold, Hoffman strikes out the side for the save. And Springer with one of the biggest homers imaginable. Unreal.

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Mike Bechthold 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @mike-bechthold.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

WORLD SERIES BOUND!!!

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Justin McElroy 🇨🇦 @jmcelroy.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

THE BLUE JAYS HAVE WON THE PENNANT WOW

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ℳatt @matttomic.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

At the 12 second mark, that camera operator called an audible and just said "fuck it, the lane is clear, no tripping hazards, I'm winning a Sports Emmy for cinematography right now"

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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 13/10/2025

Proposals to build data centers are facing growing opposition across the country. Local leaders are weighing concerns about data centers’ water and electricity use with the hefty community investments that developers often offer to sweeten their deals.

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Towns are saying no to AI data centers. One got sued over it.

A developer sued a Michigan township after it voted against a data center proposal. Cities in Ohio and Missouri have explored data center bans.

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

Pope Leo quotes Hannah Arendt: “The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction and the distinction between true and false no longer exist." www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...

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Pope Leo calls for news agencies to stand as bulwark against "post-truths," lies and manipulation

Pope Leo XIV has encouraged international news agencies to stand firm as a bulwark against the "ancient art of lying" and manipulation.

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Journal of the Western Society for French History (JWSFH) @jwsfh.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

We've also got fortunetellers, monuments & commemorations, c18-21 masculinity & race + a feature re: ANDOR! Contributors to the vol. include: @jean23bean.bsky.social @hannahfrydman.bsky.social @donalh.bsky.social @tgpeterson.bsky.social @laprofmme.bsky.social & @vlvde.bsky.social Follow them all!

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Journal of the Western Society for French History (JWSFH) @jwsfh.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

Hey Bluesky: We're prepping vol. 51 for publication & it is looking fabulous w/articles on artists in Vichy & the actor/author Claudius Roussarie, a roundtable on Karen Offen's "The Woman Question," Interventions, Notes on Sources & the 2025 JWSFH Mixtape!

Blue and white images in squares above the name of the Journal of the Western Society for French History in white type against a black band at the bottom

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Canadian History Ehx @cdnhistoryehx.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

Over the course of 233 days in 1942, 11,000 soldiers and 16,000 Canadian and American civilians, built a 2,451 kilometre highway with 133 bridges through the Canadian wilderness. This is the story of the construction of the Alaska Highway. 🧵 1/12

Black and white photo of military trucks and soldiers constructing a wooden bridge over Raspberry River, mile 25, dated S-29-42.

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Kenneth F. Duggan 🇨🇦 @kfduggan.bsky.social · 23/08/2025

PLEASE REPOST 🥺🙏 The Canadian Letters & Images Project is an online digital archive of Canadians’ experience during wartime at home & in battle. It contains thousands of personal letters & photos that reveal people’s experience through their own words & eyes. www.canadianletters.ca/content/abou...

The homepage for the Canadian letters and images project. It shows soldiers posing for a photograph and there is a search bar in the centre. In the about section below, which cannot be seen in this image, it provides this information:

The Canadian Letters and Images Project, created in 2000, is an online digital archive of the Canadian war experience, both home front and battlefront, from any conflict in which Canadians have participated. The focus of the project is on the personal materials of participants, such as letters and photographs, which permit us to experience the war through their eyes and their words. These are very often the stories of ordinary Canadians, largely forgotten and overlooked. Our mission is to digitally preserve and continue to make freely accessible this important part of Canada’s heritage for this generation and future generations.

The vision of the project is to continue to expand this repository of Canadian archival materials by collaborating with Canadians to preserve and share the individual and collective stories that have shaped our past

Accessibility to the past is key to understanding who we are as a nation. We are committed to free access for everyone to the materials of the project.

All collections are of equal importance. Every letter, photograph, or other artifact has an important story to tell.

The collections and their contents are not edited or censored. Our role as historians is not to judge the past in light of the present, but to present everything in its entirety at the time of its creation.

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Waitman Wade Beorn, PhD, FRHistS @waitmanwbeorn.com · 14/08/2025

<taps sign> The Luddites were not against technology per de; they were against technology that devalued their work. And they certainly weren’t unfamiliar with technology. We should all be Luddites vis a vis AI.

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Michael E. Carter @deckofcarterhist.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

No, wait. Be Luddites. Luddities were largely industrial workers terrified that their bosses' avarice and the emerging technology would cost them their livelihood and endanger their families ability to survive. We need Luddities to oppose AI and automation. Be Luddities, god damnit.

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Carla-Jean Stokes @carlajeanstokes.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

Looking for your next great summertime beach read? Just grab the latest issue of Legion Magazine to enjoy learning more about how WW2 photographer Ken Bell revisited sites of war repeatedly over a 40 year period to re photograph them.

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Carla-Jean Stokes @carlajeanstokes.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

In case you missed it - I’ve got short article in Legion Magazine this month about one of my ongoing fascinations with #SWW photography: Ken Bell and his numerous returns to Europe in the postwar period to re-photograph battle sites. Check it out here: legionmagazine.com/back-to-the-...

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Back to the front - Legion Magazine

Canadian war photographer Ken Bell returned to European battlefields several times after the Second World War to reshoot some of the people and landscapes captured during the conflict.

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

Our national parks are in trouble. Since Trump returned to office, the National Park Service has lost nearly a quarter of its full-time staff. That’s thousands of people who used to care for trails, run visitor centers, respond to emergencies, and protect the land, gone.

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Laprofmme @laprofmme.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

As a historian, I have been curious (and appalled) by this choice of pseudo. The interpretation below is quite common, but not in fact correct. It was an 1865 law (sénatus-consulte) that made “Muslim Algerians” (a racial category divorced from actual faith) French nationals without citizenship 1/

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Canada's History @canadashistory.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

This week’s newsletter highlights stories of Indigenous peoples sovereignty and resilience. Read a mix of long-form and shorter pieces through the newsletter link in the comments.

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Canadian History Ehx @cdnhistoryehx.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

At my merch shop, I have a line of shirts that celebrate Canada. Perfect for the upcoming summer season! Visit the merch shop here 👇 www.ohcanadashop.com/collections/...

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Jamie McTrusty @jamiemctrusty.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

Pilot Officer Andrew Charles Mynarski, of 419 Squadron, Royal Canadian Air Force, won a Victoria Cross for his actions on the night of 12th/13th June, 1944. He was mid-upper gunner in a Lancaster, part of a force which was to attack the marshalling yards at Cambrai. 🧵1/10

Lancasters of 419 Squadron.
📷 bombercommandmuseum.ca

(Group of 4-engined bombers in RAF markings, some on a concrete airfield apron and others on grass)

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