Miscellaneous items I found of interest during the week.
Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards 2020 finalists
From the BBC
Canada 1919
Tim Cook and Jack Granatstein discuss in a Champlain Society podcast. This is (informed) opinion —note the comment by Peter Hart in The Last Battle "The regrettable habit of Canadian historians in ascribing every military innovation of the Great War to the Canadians, and the Canadian alone, should not distract from their success in battle."
Library of Congress New Tool to Search More than 1.5 Million Historical Newspaper Images
And where is Library and Archives Canada? — MIA through the neglect of the newspaper collection.
Quick Service
There are several social media posts praising the GRO for much-improved response in supplying pdf birth and death certificates for England and Wales. Response for marriage certificates is slower.
How a Toronto woman discovered she has up to 600 half-siblings
Demons of the deep state: how evangelicals and conspiracy theories combine in Trump’s America
Thanks to this week's contributors: Ann Burns, Anonymous, Bruce Murduck, BT, Gail Dever, Janice Wilkin, Sophronia, Tess, Unknown.
That Newspaper Navigator is terrific John. It can add a huge amount of local history to a family's story. Thanks and cheers, BT
ReplyDeleteAlthough the concept of NEWSPAPER NAVIGATOR is absolutely wonderful, the actual results may not be. I tried several searches before broadening my search term to "Canada" in a rather narrow timeframe of 25 years. Here is the result of my search:
ReplyDelete11/24/1901 The St. Louis Republic.
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Whatever it was that Gilbert Parker, one of our earliest Canadian novelists wrote, it is unrecognizable in the result I have copied here. Machine learning.