European History

Education for Sale: The Culture Industry and the Crisis in University Education

July 12, 2011

Britain’s investment in post-secondary education was, not unlike Canada’s, a post-war phenomenon that saw university education entrenched firmly within the public sector as part of the new welfare state. Since then, we’ve seen Britain move from largely free university education after World War II to the imposition of moderate tuition fees in 1998 and then to the current tripling of that figure to 9,000£.

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Remembering a Memory

June 24, 2011

Announcing the launch of a website hosting the film, Remembering a Memory, along with supplementary material.

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April 14th Public Lecture: “From a Pastoral Wetland to an Industrial Wasteland, and Back Again? An Environmental History of the Lower Lea River Valley, the Site of the 2012 London Olympics.”

April 8, 2011

A reminder to our readers that you are all invited to the second lecture in the Mississauga Library System’s ‘History Minds’ series, co-hosted with ActiveHistory.ca. The second talk will be on Thursday, April 14th at 7:30PM in Classroom 3 at the Mississauga Central Library (see below the cut for directions). “From a Pastoral Wetland to [...]

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Movie Review: “Swedes and Scots and Sadists…Oh My”

March 30, 2011

This past weekend I watched two movies that were seemingly more different than any two movies could be. They did have things in common though. Both films were intriguing and entertaining in their own way and at their heart is a similar theme: reclaiming and uncovering the “true” past.

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Book Review: Radioactive: Marie and Pierre Curie, A Tale of Love and Fallout

March 23, 2011

Teresa Iacobelli presents a thoughtful review of Radioactive: Marie and Pierre Curie, A Tale of Love and Fallout.

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Historians and Global Warming

March 22, 2011

As part of a small but growing number of environmental historians exploring the relationship between climatic changes and human affairs, Dagomar Degroot discusses how he is drawn into modern debates about global warming whether he likes it or not.

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2012 Olympic Park: Remediating the Environmental and Social Conditions

March 21, 2011

Will the 2012 Olympics force the poorer people living in the Lower Lea Valley to relocate as the environmental conditions improve.

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Performing History, Class and Gender in Billy Elliot: The Musical

March 9, 2011

Billy Elliot: The Musical’s overarching historical context – the British mining strike of 1984-1985 – serves as the backdrop to examine issues of class and gender through the story of a struggling community and one very talented boy. Yet what happens to those who lacked the opportunity to leave town like Billy?

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Canadian petition to save the Historical Archives of Hungarian State Security

February 18, 2011

Please sign the petition to save the Historical Archives of Hungarian State Security.

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The Revolution Will Be Rubbernecked

February 16, 2011

While the recent protest movements in the Middle East reveal much about the present state of civic community among the people of those nations — Iran, Tunisia, and Egypt (and a growing list of others) — our reaction to them reveals more about ourselves than we should perhaps find flattering.

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