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Family History Ghosts
A brief plug before I return to a regular season of weekly posts. I’ll be speaking at the British Isles Family History Society of Greater Ottawa Conference on 22 September. This is an interview I did earlier today about it… … Continue reading
As Good As It Gets… for academics
One of my favourite historians is S. E. Duff, who writes about South Africa, empire, food, feminism, and a plethora of other things. Recently, she discussed her superstitions when it came to the writing process. The following quickly caught my … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Musings
Tagged academia, Appetite for Destruction, Axl Rose, books, British Library, conferences, eccentricities, Guns N' Roses, historians, history, insanity, Jurassic Park, libraries, Michelangelo, obsessive compulsive disorder, procrastination, quirks, S. E. Duff, writing, Yoda
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Empire is a Man’s Business: Unionist Loyalties, Imperial Masculinities and Ulster’s Campaign Against Home Rule
This is a somewhat edited (and also less formal) version of a paper I gave this past weekend at St Michael’s College, University of Toronto. The one-day symposium, hosted by the Celtic Studies Institute, was to mark the 100th anniversary … Continue reading
Posted in Ireland, masculinities
Tagged 1912, Belfast, British imperialism, Canadian history, conferences, Edward Carson, Great War, Ireland, Irishmen, London, loyalty, manliness, masculinities, parliament, Paul Fussell, queen victoria, Sam Hughes, stereotypes, Ulster, Ulster Covenant, war
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The Great War: Memory to History – 10-12 November 2011
Will be blogging (and getting future bloggery ideas) from the Great War: Memory to History Conference happening this weekend in London, Ontario. The full programme is available online here and proceedings will also be on the conference’s Twitter page. This … Continue reading
Mid-Atlantic Musings 