Tag Archives: 1970s

Women in Television – What’s Old is News

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https://media.rss.com/whatsoldisnews/2024_10_16_04_11_19_e64b655c-ea72-4d8a-ba95-b2ba67e4284b.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadBy Sean Graham This week, I talk with Jennifer Clark, author of Producing Feminism: Television Work in the Age of Women’s Liberation. We discuss the role of women in the television in the 1970s, the ways in which women organized, and how societal changes were reflected in the industry. We also chat about the… Read more »

A Troubled Memory? The Transnational Trauma of Chile’s 1973 Coup 

by Adeline Vasquez-Parra On September 11th, 1973, General Augusto Pinochet led a military coup in Chile, overthrowing the democratically-elected President Salvador Allende. This event marked the onset of a brutal dictatorship that lasted from 1974 to 1990, characterized by widespread human rights abuses including torture, kidnappings, and the exile of thousands of Chileans. Between 500,000 and 1 million Chileans fled… Read more »

(Re)Thinking Late 20th Century Canada

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This is the third post in a series featuring themes and panels that will be presented at the Canadian Historical Association’s 2019 annual meeting at the University of British Columbia, June 3-5. Historians, who for many years ignored the historiographic no man’s land between the charismatic upheavals of the 1960s and the world historical events of the [late] 1980s, have… Read more »