Thread by @earlycanada

A warm welcome to today's new readers and followers! Borealia features recent scholarship on the Indigenous, French, British, and early national histories of the places we now call Canada. Here's a short thread with a sample of recent posts from this year's back-catalogue:

1/ Need some historical context for #covid19 and pandemics in Canada? Start with @kate4barker on Killer Advertising—How Canadians Were Sold the 1918-1919 Influenza Pandemic
earlycanadianhistory.ca/2020/03/23/kil…
#Cdnhist #canadianhistory

@kate4barker 2/ Then wind back the clock to the late 18th C, as @S_Berthelette reflects on Quarantine in the Northwest: The Hudson’s Bay Company’s Public Health Measures to Stop the 1779-1783 Smallpox Epidemic
earlycanadianhistory.ca/2020/03/30/qua…
#HudsonBayCompany #history

@kate4barker @S_Berthelette Or perhaps you want to think about something *other* than the pandemic? Here's historian Don Wright's recommendation for compelling #history podcast listening: Great Lives @BBCRadio4, the perfect pandemic podcast
earlycanadianhistory.ca/2020/04/13/gre…
#historypodcasts #podcasts

@kate4barker @S_Berthelette @BBCRadio4 Fin/ Finally, here's a lively two-part conversation about the experiences and agency of women during the American Revolution, featuring the brilliant @rnbrannon, @kacytillman, and @Duval_Lauren earlycanadianhistory.ca/tag/womens-his…
#womenalsoknowhistory #VastEarlyAmerica #history