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 .

@museumofhealthcare.bsky.social
Where Canada’s Health History Lives!

Ann Baillie Building (NHS)
32 George Street
Kingston, ON
@drkyliesmith.bsky.social
Historian. Assoc Prof. Author of jimcrowintheasylum.com with @UNCPress. Knitter, baker, dog lover. Dharawal - Muscogee - Meanjin.
@lthielenw.bsky.social
Settler critical of settler States. Against white supremacy, racial capitalism, fascism, all racisms. For Trans* inclusive decolonial anti-carceral intersectional abolitionist feminisms. Free Palestine. Land Back. Love animals. LC since 2020.
@ukahn.bsky.social
The UK Association for the History of Nursing (UKAHN) promotes the development and advancement of #histnursing through scholarly work and outreach. https://ukahn.org/ Find our yearly journal at https://bulletin.ukahn.org/
@kiranmehta.bsky.social
Historian researching prison labour and citizenship in Britain & British Empire, 1750-1895. Leverhulme ECF & University of Leicester.
@mainlymuseums.bsky.social
A personal take on museums big and small from contributors across the globe.
@jamesgallen.bsky.social
Associate Professor, School of Law and Government, DCU. #TransitionalJustice and Historical Abuses of Church and State (CUP 2023) available here: https://shorturl.at/AJnT1
@confronteugenics.bsky.social
Public history project: www.confront-eugenics.org
@gabemoshenska.bsky.social
I want Ken Railings to walk in here right now and say 'Pam Shortt's broken both her legs and I wanna dance with you’
@brionyneilson.bsky.social
Historian of 19th-century France—juvenile incarceration, prisons, settler/penal colonies (esp New Caledonia)

Book: "Dangers of Youth" www.mqup.ca/dangers-of-youth-products-9780228024330.php

Based in Sydney, Australia
@adamjb.bsky.social
Sometime academic, hopeful anarchist, bad settler. Dogs are my friends. Land back and decolonisation are my goals. He/him.

Consulting and training via www.stillinmotion.org
@rossjami.bsky.social
An archaeologist at Simon Fraser University. I study Spanish colonialism in Ecuador, as well as material culture and the modern world.
https://www.sfu.ca/archaeology/about/people/faculty/rjamieson.html
@hubert-larose.bsky.social
Doctorant en histoire de la santé et du handicap
@historybycanoe.bsky.social
Award-winning historian, writer & researcher. Overlooked histories of settler-colonial malfeasance and Indigenous resistance in Northern Ontario.
@prisonadoptee.bsky.social
Adopted person born to a criminalized and incarcerated mother at the Andrew Mercer Reformatory. Many adoptees across Canada remain unaware of their carceral birth histories.

Follow @amreformatory.bsky.social.

https://andrewmercerreformatory.org/
@uvichistory.bsky.social
History Department at the University of Victoria in beautiful British Columbia on the Salish Sea. https://www.uvic.ca/humanities/history/
@christina-c20.bsky.social
Dr Christina Malathouni @LivUniArch, writing 'The Hospitalisation of Public English Asylums: an architectural history (1841-1961)' (Routledge). @BartlettUCL Alumna. Former @c20society.bsky.social caseworker. Also @Christina_C20.
@wsferrys.bsky.social
The second best ferrys parody account...IN THE WORLD

“Parody is the last refuge of the frustrated writer.” - Ernest Hemingway

"Satire is a sort of mirror glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own." - Jonathan Swift
@chelseaman.bsky.social
Literature and Philosophy, and in the real world a Bakunin style anarchist
@iehs.bsky.social
Founded in 1965, the IEHS promotes the study of immigration history through the Journal of American Ethnic History and professional/educational outreach.

https://iehs.org/
@karynpugliese.bsky.social
Personal account. Thoughts & opinions are mine and do not reflect my employer(s). Journalist & #DifficultIndigenousWoman Pikwàkanagàn; @niemanfdn 2020 @caj @cjfe @aptnnews #cdnpoli #Indigenous #cdnmedia
@amreformatory.bsky.social
Criminalized Women and Girls’ Ancestral Research: Supporting Descendants of Those Incarcerated or Born at the Institution and Adopted.
#PrisonAdoptees #PrisonBorn #PunishedInUtero #Genealogy

https://andrewmercerreformatory.org/
@nnmcc.bsky.social
Honouring, preserving, and sharing the history and heritage of Japanese Canadians and Japanese culture in Canada.
【日系文化センター・博物館 】
@theotherkim.bsky.social
Archaeologist, food historian, digital humanist. Working on historical archaeology of institutions of immigration in the British Empire (AUS, GB, IE, CA). More info at kimberleyconnor.com. All opinions my own.
@lauramca.bsky.social
Irish Academic working on archaeology, heritage, memory, knowing the past at UC Cork. Specializes in post/conflict and post/colonial contexts inc fieldwork in Ireland and Caribbean. Unapologetic focus on social justice.
@joannehammond.bsky.social
Archaeologist & anthropologist. Settler doing my best on Secwépemc and Nlaka'pamux territories. Land back. Free Palestine. My swearing won’t hurt you.
@windward-afa.bsky.social
Resisting the far right on lands & waters known as British Columbia

⛰️North Vancouver, unceded səlilwətaɬ, Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Úxwumixw & xʷməθkʷəy̓əm lands

Talk to me about right-wing extremism, Christian nationalism, conspirituality & community responses to hate
@benbradleyca.bsky.social
cultural & environmental historian. #bchist and #cdnhist and #envhist. landscape, mobilities, public pasts, fordism, tourism, parks, infrastructure, rowdies, fruit stands, seasonality, 1970+, etc.