Irish Lives Remembered
The Autumn 2019 issue of this free magazine is available.
How genealogists can use newspapers
A beginner level blog post by Emily Potter, a Genealogy Consultant at LAC.
Not a single child born in the U.K. in 2016 was named Nigel
"Farage’s role in the 2016 Brexit referendum may have even played a part in the dearth of newborn Nigels that year." I'm suspicious this is fake news!
2021 Census
Censuses in England and Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland will be taken on 21 March 2021. No date is yet available for Canada, the last two were taken in May.
British-born Ottawa-resident author Charlotte Gray was the speaker for the inaugural presentation in the 2019 Carleton University History Department Shannon lecture series. Her talk, “New Vehicles for Old Stories: Canadian mining history in a True Crime frame.” drew on her new best-selling book illustrating how the crime genre can be employed in presenting Canadian history.
The next presentation in the series “Challenging the ‘White Man’s Country’ Narrative: How Black railway porters fought for civil rights, equality and inclusion.” is on Friday, 1 November.
October is Library Month and the Golden Tickets are back!
It’s Library Month and OPL is hiding and giving away Golden Tickets in all branches across the city!
Visit the branch nearest to you and keep your eyes peeled. Every Golden Ticket is redeemable for a beautiful, locally handmade fanny pack by EcoEquitable!
Why historians are fighting to save Thomas Cook’s enormous archive
How The Four Federal Parties’ Climate Plans Stack Up
From Chatelaine and Maclean's, a climate scientist and an economist grade the major parties’ environmental platforms.
The election season brought to mind Keats
“Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness,
Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun;
Conspiring with him how to load and bless
With fruit the vines that round the thatch-eves run;
To bend with apples the moss’d cottage-trees,
And fill all fruit with ripeness to the core;
To swell the gourd, and plump the hazel shells
With a sweet kernel; to set budding more,
And still more, later flowers for the bees,
Until they think warm days will never cease,
For Summer has o’er-brimm’d their clammy cells.”
John, I was delighted to read the stuff about Thomas Cook'a archives being saved. There was a WDYTYA years ago about Sheila Hancock, the British actress who was married to John Thaw. People might remember him from Inspector Morse. Hancock herself is not well known here.
ReplyDeleteAnyhoooo, Sheila spoke about her grandmother, who had lived with her family when she was a girl. This grandmother was dirt poor, but seemed to have fantastic stories about elegant travel, and wore a rundown fur tippet. A search of Thomas Cook's Archive by the researchers showed that she had been married to the fellow who was head of the Thomas Cook office in Milan, and had indeed had a fabulous life right in downtown Milan across from the Opera House. Sadly, this was before pensions had been instituted by Thomas Cook, and after her husband's death she was dirt poor. Cheers, BT