The Commemoration of Incarceration in British Columbia @carceralbc.bsky.social

A project to examine the use of space and material culture to commemorate a century of incarcerating people in British Columbia, 1850-1950. Curated by @rossjami.bsky.social .

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Jermaine Thibodeaux @drconvictsandcane.bsky.social
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It’s official! No turning back. Ready to release my first book to the world: The House that Cane Built: Sugar, Race, and the Gendered Roots of the Texas Prison Plantation System! So grateful to the folks at @columbiaup.bsky.social 💪🏾💪🏾 Stay tuned!
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Canadian Museum of Health Care @museumofhealthcare.bsky.social
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"What does it mean to be intelligent? Is it a fixed trait or a skill improved with adequate resources?"

Answer this question in the research blog, as Ella traces the parallel histories of eugenics and intelligence testing in Canada.

Read more:
www.museumofhealthcare.ca/blog/objective-or-oppressive
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A beautiful chair carved at Spirit Lake internment camp during First World War
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Densho @denshoproject.bsky.social
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We’re hiring! Join our team and advance Densho’s mission to preserve and share the history of Japanese American WWII incarceration in order to promote justice and equity today!

Managing Editor & Senior Historian (full-time)
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Densho @denshoproject.bsky.social
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Join us for a Lunch & Learn conversation with author Evelyn Iritani and Densho Content Director Brian Niiya as they discuss Iritani’s newest book, Safe Passage: The Untold Story of Diplomatic Intrigue, Betrayal, and the Exchange of American and Japanese Civilians by Sea During World War II.
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Madness Canada @madnesscanada.bsky.social
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Symbolizing harmony and reconciliation, Nikka Yuko Garden honour Japanese contributions to the community of Lethbridge, no small thing 25 years after 2,000 plus Japanese Canadians were forcibly relocated to isolated sugar beet work camps in the area. #Historymatters #Recouncilation #Community
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Library and Archives Canada @library-archives.canada.ca
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Interested in Federal Indian Day Schools records?
Check out our new booklet: Documents of a Colonial System: Day Schools Records at Library and Archives Canada: www.canada.ca/en/library-archives/collection/engage-learn/publications/documents-colonial-system.html
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H-Net Reviews @hnetreviews.bsky.social
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New book review:
Schroeder on Green, Alex: _Perfect Turmoil: Walter E. Fernald and the Struggle to Care for America’s Disabled, A_. Bellevue Literary Press, 2025. Published by H-Disability.
Read here: networks.h-net.org/node/20147345
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Canadian Museum of Health Care @museumofhealthcare.bsky.social
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We are delighted to offer the following free online talk.

Advocating for the importance of disabled, neurodivergent, and chronically ill lived experience within Canada’s medical archival collections
Tuesday, April 21, 2026
2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.

Please register here: www.zeffy.com/en-CA/ticketing/online-talk-advocating-for-the-importance-of-disabled-neurodivergent-and-chronically-ill-lived-experience-within-canadas-medical-archival-collections
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Alexandre Klein @alexandreklein.bsky.social
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Peuple de Québec ! Un lancement de "Prendre soin de la folie" (@pulaval.bsky.social) aura lieu dans votre ville le jeudi 9 avril prochain. À cette occasion, nous échangerons avec @marielaurenceraby.bsky.social et Bernard Roy. RDV à 17h @lemonastere.bsky.social ! www.eventbrite.ca/e/lancement-prendre-soin-de-la-folie-tickets-1986040147544
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Whitchurch Hospital Historical Society @whitchurchhospital.bsky.social
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Day 7 @arascot.bsky.social
#Archive30
#ArchiveAnimals

Here is Matron Edith King with her dogs, Peter & brother.

Currently research is Matron King so do get in touch if you have any information.

This article is from the Nursing Times, February 24, 1934

#HistNursing
#CardiffCityMentalHospital
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Nikkei National Museum & Cultural Centre @nnmcc.bsky.social
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Check Media put together a program about Japanese Canadian history! www.youtube.com/watch?v=jCBH-0FGNxA
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Andrew Mercer Ontario Reformatory for Females @amreformatory.bsky.social
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Must-read on the class action at the “House of Horrors” in B.C. & the overrepresentation of Indigenous girls 👇

Note: in Ontario, “incorrigible” girls who escaped training schools were committed to the Mercer Reformatory.

www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/article/shuttered-bc-girls-school-described-as-house-of-horror-at-centre-of-class-action-lawsuit/
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Mainly Museums @mainlymuseums.bsky.social
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It was called the Desert Alcatraz. Read this story from Julie and you’ll understand why.
@jdpphotoBIZ #museums #museumfromhome #Arizona
mainlymuseums.com/post/1425/how-to-experience-real-prison-life-at-yuma-territorial-prison-museum-today/
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Immigration History Research Center @ihrc-umn.bsky.social
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We're so proud of @umn-amst.bsky.social grad student Selena Moon who published her work on Asian American disability. Check it out here. @migrationcollab.bsky.social @iehs.bsky.social @umnengagement.bsky.social
densho.org/catalyst/ask-a-historian-disability/
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Alexandre Klein @alexandreklein.bsky.social
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(Call for applications) Phd opportunity "Spaces of Health: Connecting Past and Present Experiences of Health and Wellbeing in Heritage" histoiresante.blogspot.com/2026/04/les-espaces-de-la-sante.html #histmed
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Densho @denshoproject.bsky.social
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We’re still reflecting on our Teaching “Difficult” Histories workshop that took place this past Saturday, co-hosted by the UCLA Asian American Studies Center.
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Eric Alper @thatericalper.com
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Colin Asher's 'The Midnight Special' arrives June 30th from W. W. Norton. The secret prison history of American music has finally been written, and it changes how you hear everything. zurl.co/jPQLN
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Discover Nikkei @discovernikkei.bsky.social
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Greg Robinson's interview with a 90-year-old Robert Frase finally answers the longstanding question: Why was Frase, staff of the WRA, so eager to help Japanese Americans during their incarceration?
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SFU Archaeology @sfuarchaeology.bsky.social
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🎥 Documentary Screening: Ode to What Remains of Us by Sofia Esperto, documenting SFU Professor Hugo Cardoso’s research project.
📅 April 30 | 🕐 1:00 PM | 📍ASB 10900, SFU's Big Data Hub
🎟 Free — registration required. buff.ly/9wUsIvo
🎬 Check trailer & additional information from the link.
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What the Basement Kept
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Dawson et al. 2026: Rethinking the commemoration of Indian Residential Schools through digital heritage www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13527258.2026.2642610 href="/search?t=posts&q=abstract">#abstract
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Journal of Historical Geography @jofhistgeog.bsky.social
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New article:

'Finding and leaving traces: Prehabitation and the presence of the past in the Victorian-era prison', by Dominique Moran, Matt Houlbrook (@tricksterprince.bsky.social) and Jennifer Turner.
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Sean Carleton @seancarleton.bsky.social
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This was a true face melter. Highly recommend: Silencing The Past: Power and the Production of History.
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NiCHE Canada @nichecanada.bsky.social
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New Comment: "Very interesting perspetive on the House of Industry. I was unfamiliar with the term 'urban metabolism' until today. Good luck with the Assembling a City project." - kdmorris

niche-canada.org/2026/03/20/filth-squalid-misery-and-seemingly-drunken-debauchery-energy-relief-in-torontos-house-of-industry-records/

#cdnhist #envhist #energyhistory #urbanhistory
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Discover Nikkei @discovernikkei.bsky.social
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Judoka, veteran, teacher, and writer to the end, Frank Moritsugu's legacy extends beyond his iconic journalism, social activism, and the Japanese Canadian community as a whole. Read about his life and career in this article originally published in Nikkei Voice.
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Densho @denshoproject.bsky.social
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“We didn’t have separate rooms. It was like a regular barrack, we all slept next to each other.”
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Discover Nikkei @discovernikkei.bsky.social
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Naoki Kawamura's first installment of a new series "My Grandfather, Kyohei Takahashi—A Record of His Internment in the United States." He begins his grandfather's life history with his overseas assignments as an accountant for Nippon Yusen.
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Alan Lester @alanlester.bsky.social
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CFP: Race, Law and Empire
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Kiran Mehta @kiranmehta.bsky.social
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Sorta obsessed with prison inventories at the moment. Should I write a material history of the eighteenth/nineteenth-century prison…
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