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Puzzling over the Past
Currently my kitchen table is covered with puzzle pieces. I am working on a 1000-piece puzzle that is full of many small,...
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Dec 5, 20233 min read
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Making Space for the Present: Part 2
I wasn’t planning on having a part 2 to the previous post, but this week, I came across a quote in my readings from 2016, by British...
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Oct 24, 20231 min read
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Making Space for the Present
I know what you might be thinking: what’s a blog about history doing talking about the present? One of the reasons why I like to study...
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Oct 18, 20233 min read
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Archival Power
I didn’t discover the archives until the third year of my undergrad. I was taking a course about public history and we spent one of our...
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Oct 8, 20232 min read
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Placed in the Past
Something you should know about me: I was born and raised in Niagara and I love living there. In the past few years, I’ve really gotten...
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Oct 4, 20233 min read
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Somewhere in the Middle
I am not a social media person. The main reason I got Instagram nearly three years ago was so that I could follow different museums and...
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Sep 27, 20233 min read
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Croquet and Costumes
Being a public history student and having just moved to London, Ontario, I was anxious to check out some of the local museums. This past...
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Sep 20, 20233 min read
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What IS public history?
“This then is ‘history’: a true story of something that happened long ago, retold in the present. The past is brought to life once more,...
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Sep 11, 20233 min read
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