Extract of letter from Lanctot to Doughty describing an air raid in London, while on a mission to collect Canadian War artifacts. January 2018.
Note from Stephanie: Hello everyone and welcome to the first of our 3-part series, based on a panel presentation given this past spring at the Canadian Historical Association annual conference in Regina, SK! I was really pleased to present on a fantastic panel with four amazing colleagues, Michelle Desveaux of the University of Saskatchewan, Erin Spinney of Oxford University, and Katherine MacDonald of the University of New Brunswick (and moderated by our own Andrea Eidinger!) The panel focused on how archives and archival methods influenced the history we write, and covered a number of different topics and eras, from the seventeenth century to the twentieth. Over the next few weeks we’ll be posting three of the four papers from our panel on the blog; unfortunately Katherine couldn’t join us this time, but maybe we’ll see something from her in this space sometime soon. We’re starting the series with Michelle Desveaux’s paper on the development of the National Archives. Next week Erin Spinney will be here with her paper on eighteenth century nurses in the British marine forces, and I’ll be ending the series with my work on finding Huguenots in the PRDH. Enjoy!
