Settler & pioneer “heritage hipster” styles in the age of Idle No More,...
Men in British Columbia, 1859, one in a newly discovered collection of early photographs of white settlers and First Nations in B.C. Via Vancouver Sun © Royal British Columbia Museum, reprinted with...
View Article“When Hipsters Dream of the 1890s”– an abridged version of my hipster essay...
Briarpatch Magazine, one of Canada’s oldest lefty political mags, has published an abridged version of my earlier essay on heritage hipsters and colonialism redux. If you want to read the original and...
View ArticleNational Aboriginal Day – Wab Kinew’s “500 years in 2 minutes”
Happy National Aboriginal Day everyone! Wab Kinew, always concise, does 500 years of ‘Canadian’ history in 2 minutes. “So what went wrong? It wasn’t always like this when we started down the path. When...
View ArticleThe Tudor house, colonialism, white gold and toothache
“This is why we love the Tudor period so much, because it’s the age of discovery, and there’s a sense that anything was possible.” “Discovery”? That’s one way of putting it. This BBC documentary,...
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