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@brian_gettler@mas.to
2026-04-02 12:53:40

Has anyone written a history of developer fees? I'd be especially interested in their use by governments to maintain low property taxes. Bonus points if the history focuses on Canada.
#histodons #taxation #RealEstate

@edintone@mastodon.green
2026-02-28 11:24:02

Some wise words from Hugh of St Victor for today's researchers, historians and journalists.#histodons

The amnesiocracy governing Britain

@brian_gettler@mas.to
2026-01-21 00:07:10

This term, my students have to go to the campus archives to consult required primary sources for course assignments. The idea that some things are simply unavailable online seems to have never occurred to at least a few of them.
#histodons

@brian_gettler@mas.to
2026-02-14 13:27:07

I'm kicking off reading week with some actual reading: Wickwire's highly regarded At the Bridge (2019). I'm looking forward to discussing it with the brilliant group of grad students I have in this year's seminar towards the end of the month.
#histodons #anthropology

A book featuring a sepia photograph of two men on horses side-by-side facing away from the camera sits on a purple quilt-covered lap. The book: Wendy Wickwire, At the Bridge: James Teit and an Anthropology of Belonging
@brian_gettler@mas.to
2026-01-09 13:16:19

Here's a good chunk of the assigned books for my grad seminar on Canadian history - a few golden oldies, but mostly newer stuff. I've got a good group and am looking forward to a fine term.
#histodons

10 books standing upright on a wooden desk, spines toward thr camera. From left to right: Loo, Moved by thr State; Luby, Dammed; Wright, Donald Creighton: A Life in History; Wickwire, At the Bridge; Berger, The Sense of Power; Owram, Promise of Eden; Hamon, The Audacity of His Enterprise; Lewis, Nerbas, Shaw, McGill in History; Young, Patrician Families and the Making of Quebec; and Dechêne, Power and Subsistence.
@brian_gettler@mas.to
2026-03-09 21:01:10

Tomorrow is my lecture on the history of pizza in Canada. Mrs. Brady (1957) will make a brief appearance.
#histodons

@brian_gettler@mas.to
2026-02-18 15:35:09

Let's get a new hashtag going - #ArchivalCoffeeRings.
These are from a letter written in January 1831, though I suspect a clerk in the receiving office - the Canadian Indian Department - left the stains. Also, I am probably undercutting the hashtag as I create it - these are more likely tea than coffee rings.

A black-and-white microfilm image of the upper right-hand corner of the back of a letter featuring two superimposed coffee rings.
@brian_gettler@mas.to
2026-03-13 14:54:58

I'm poking around Gallica for images to use for social media posts the department is putting together for a course we're offering this summer, "Themes in the History of Women Before 1800." Obviously, there are thousands of images, mostly engravings, showing women. It's really striking how many involve either naked bodies in the bath, lamentation of the crucifixion, or laundry.
#histodons