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More Canadian History

• Thinking about parliaments
  Janet passes on a mini-review of Adam Tomkins' Our Republican Constitution and its analysis of how parliaments work and how they should work. My own longer review in the Literary Review of Canada, which introduced Tomkins to Canadian discussions, is here. I have another essay on another topic forthcoming in the LRC - don't miss the April issue.Brec […]
• British historians on deficits and budgets
  History and Policy is a British website in which historians attempt to influence public policy discussions with historical information. A case in point is the recent argument by historian Glen O'Hara (supported by 19 other scholars) that an analysis of historical levels of British public debt suggests that deep and immediate "cuts" in public s […]
• Five Canadian histories for International Women's Day
  Just from a quick shelf-browse. Further nominations would be posted.* Jean Barman, Sojourning Sisters. Two Nova Scotian women go teaching in 1880s British Columbia* Elizabeth Goudie, Woman of Labrador. Trapping family memoir.* Alison Prentice et al, Canadian Women: A History. The standard work.* Robert Sharpe and Patricia McMahon, The Persons Case. Story wel […]
• The words to the national anthem
  When Peter Mansbridge's people called looking for a historian to pontificate on the proposal to change the words of the national anthem, I suggested they should find some women historians to talk about it. They did, and now I'm in the clear, and just as happy about it. There must be better subjects on which to go National.But I heard a woman saying […]
• Carl Benn on Toronto history
  The St George's Society of Toronto, a mere 175 years old this year, is hosting Carl Benn in a lecture on the history of the city, tomorrow February 5. Details here.The City, meanwhile, is looking for a historian to direct its War of 1812 bicentennial activities. […]