History News

Our own Dr. Alan McDougall recently contributed to the article, “More Than a Game: Football and Politics Collide as Israel-Hamas War Grips the Sport” featured on Alarabiya News.

The Champlain Society has awarded our own Dr. Catharine Anne Wilson this year’s Floyd S. Chalmers Award for Ontario HIstory for her book Being Neighbours: Cooperative Work and Rural Culture, 1830-1960, published by McGill-Queen’s University Press. The book "immerses the reader in Ontario’s farm neighbourhoods from the pioneer era into the 1950s.

The Frank Watson Book Prize in Scottish History 2023

The Frank Watson Book Prize for the best book or monograph published on Scottish History in 2021 and 2022 has been awarded to:

Neil McGuigan, Máel Coluim III, 'Canmore': An Eleventh-Century Scottish King. Edinburgh: John Donald, an imprint of Birlinn Ltd., 2021. ISBN: 9781910900192.

For more, visit the Centre for Scottish Studies

Susan Nance is part of a team that has founded a new scholarly journal, Animal History, published by University of California Press.

Animal History is a first of its kind. It publishes cutting-edge historical research on the histories of animals and human-animal relationships, documenting the impacts animals have had on global histories, cultures, languages, technologies, and environments as well as the impacts that humans have had on animals and their pasts, cultures, and lives.

Dr. Brittany Luby, of Anishinaabe descent and Associate Professor in the Department of History, has been named a new member of the Royal Scoety of Canada College. Luby is recognized as a leader for her exceptional contributions to the world of science and culture and to the well-being of our society.

A new podcast from University of Guelph alum Eamon O'Flynn (MA, Political Science '11; BA, History '08) seeks to discover Scotland's past, present, and future. The first episode of 63 Percent Scottish features Scottish Studies Foundation Chair and Professor of History, Dr. Kevin James, talking about the Centre for Scottish Studies, his research, community engagement and more. You can listen for free at 63percentscottish.com or on platforms like Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and Amazon Music.

Bram Fookes, an incoming MA student in the department of history, spent this past summer on a battlefield study tour in Europe with the Canadian Battlefields Foundation.

Attached is a link to a blog post, written by Bram and published on NiCHE (Network in Canadian History & Environment), recounting the details of his trip.

Dr. Alan McDougall is often in demand to speak about topical phenomena in the world of sport, as well as its fascinating history.

Here he speaks to the Associated Press on sportswashing in El Salvador:
https://apnews.com/article/nayib-bukele-sportswashing-el-salvador-17b7a7...

We are thrilled to announce the publication of an exceptional work by Dr. Jianda Yuan (PhD '19): Chinese Government Leaders in Manchukuo, 1931-1937: Intertwined National Ideals (Routledge, 2023).