Podcasts

Welcome to ActiveHistory.ca’s podcast section. We hope this new feature will continue our mission of connecting the work of historians with the wider public.  If you have an idea for a podcast, please contact info@activehistory.ca.

To download the file, please right-click on the link and select ‘Save Link As’ and save the .mp3 file to your computer. Then you can listen to it however you please.

Podcasts

Jessica Van Horssen, “Quebec’s Asbestos Industry and McGill University: The Historic Relationship,” March 2012

Christine McLaughlin, Producing History in an Auto Town: Oshawa After World War II, November 16 2011

Craig Heron, Labour on the March: 150 Years of Labour Parades in Toronto, October 27 2011

Richard Harris, The Making of Dufferin-St. Clair: 1900-1929, October 20 2011

Lisa Rumiel, Three Mile Island to Bhopal: the Life and Work of Environmental Activist Rosalie Bertell, September 29 2011

Ruth Frager, “Spadina Sweatshops: Jews and Gender in Toronto’s Labour Movement 1900 to 1939″, September 14 2011

Jim Clifford, An Environmental History of the Lower Lea River Valley, Site of the 2012 London Olympics, April 14 2011

Ian McKay, “The Empire Strikes Back: Militarism, Imperial Nostalgia, and the Right-Wing Reconceptualization of Canada” , February 25 2011

Megan Davies and David Reville, “Locating Parkdale’s Mad History: Back Wards to Back Streets, 1980-2010″, November 4 2010

Susana Miranda, “Keeping the City Clean: Portuguese Women in Toronto’s Cleaning Industry, 1970-1990″, October 21 2010

Jennifer Bonnell, “Isolating Undesirables:  Prisons, Pollution and Homelessness in Toronto’s Don River Valley, 1860-1932″, October 14 2010

Jay Young, “A Public Technology: Building Toronto’s Yonge Street Subway”, October 14 2010

Craig Heron, “I’ll Drink to That: Booze in Hogtown”, September 28 2010

Stuart Henderson, “Making the Scene in 1960s Yorkville”, September 14 2010

Geoffrey Reaume, Victoria Freeman, Craig Heron and the members of Active History.ca, “Hands On History: Keeping History Relevant”, October 1 2009 – PART ONE PART TWO

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