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Adrian Shubert
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Retired historian (sort of)
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Adrian Shubert @adrian53.bsky.social · Aug 18
In Canadian universities, Chair refers to either the head of a department or an externally funded position (which can be at any rank).
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Adrian Shubert @adrian53.bsky.social · Jul 28
Has anyone else noticed a change in the posts to #Publichistory lately?
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Adrian Shubert @adrian53.bsky.social · Jul 27
Survival is a pretty low bar. Enjoy yourself.
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Adrian Shubert @adrian53.bsky.social · Jul 27
This is fascinating, and the first article of this type I've come across: www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
#AI #Univesrity
18 months. 12,000 questions. A whole lot of anxiety. What I learned from reading students’ ChatGPT logs
Students increasingly use AI chatbots for anything from academic queries to emotional quandaries. But are they missing out on the chance to make their own mistakes? Three undergrads reveal all …
www.theguardian.com
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Adrian Shubert @adrian53.bsky.social · Jul 27
This is hardly the level of discourse I expect here. It reminds of why I left the other place which will go unnamed.
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Thomas Cauvin @thomascauvin.bsky.social · Jul 23
What does the internationalization of public history mean from the perspective of the Global South? available also in Spanish and Portuguese @degruyterbrill.bsky.social
#GlobalSouth #colonialism,
#humanrights #socialjustice #PublicHistory
www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
Public History from the Global South: Dialogues Between Latin American and African Public Historians
Thirteen public historians from Africa and Latin America consider the question: What does the internationalization of public history mean from the perspective of the Global South? The question guided ...
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Canadian Curmudgeon 🍁 @cdncurmudgeon.bsky.social · Jul 22
We're "nasty" because we won't bend the knee or kiss the dictator's ring. We're "nasty" because we don't want booze from a nation that threatens our economy and our sovereignty. We're "nasty" because we won't visit a country where we may be kidnapped, locked up, and tortured. #elbowsup #cdnpoli
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Pádraig Kerr 🇨🇦 @morningside.bsky.social · Jul 22
Let's keep the #elbowsup 🇨🇦.

Trump thinks Canadians 'nasty' for avoiding U.S. travel, banning booze: ambassador buff.ly/QVI60KX

#cdnpoli #Canada
Trump thinks Canadians 'nasty' for avoiding U.S. travel, banning booze: ambassador
Canadians avoiding travel to the United States and banning American alcohol are among the reasons U.S. President Donald Trump thinks they are "nasty" to deal with, the U.S. ambassador to
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Adrian Shubert @adrian53.bsky.social · Jul 22
This is a fascinating video about a Mexican artist who was world-famous during his lifetime but has been completely forgotten outside his homeland. Fifteen minutes well spent.
#Art #🗃️ #Mexico

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After independence, Mexico was in search of identity. These paintings offered a blueprint | Aeon Videos
What does it mean to be Mexican? Meet the artist who forged Mexico’s identity in the brushstrokes of his landscape paintings
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Canadian Curmudgeon 🍁 @cdncurmudgeon.bsky.social · Jul 19
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We Went To Canada To See The U.S. Product Boycotts — And What We Found Was Striking
We Went To Canada To See The U.S. Product Boycotts — And What We Found Was Striking
YouTube video by CNBC
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Kate Fullagar @kfullagar.bsky.social · Jul 15
Delighted to see this conversation out in J18, reproducing our workshop on #joshuareynolds, #mai and #18thcenturyart www.journal18.org/nq/reflectio...
Reflections on Mai, Joshua Reynolds, and Eighteenth-Century Art — A Roundtable
Roundtable Participants: Kate Fullagar, Miriama Bono, Pauline Reynolds, Jocelyn Hackforth-Jones, Peter McNeil, Monica Anke Hahn, Carl Vail, Peter Brunt. In March 2023, the longstanding battle for owne...
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Adrian Shubert @adrian53.bsky.social · Jul 11
Estoy muy contento haber publicado este libro en Los Libros de la Catarata.
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Los Libros de la Catarata @cataratalibros.bsky.social · Jul 11
¿Sabes en qué librerías está disponible 'Historia social del toreo', de Adrian Shubert
@adrian53.bsky.social ? #ApoyaATuLibrería @todostuslibros.bsky.social te lo dice: buff.ly/astTHcX
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Adrian Shubert @adrian53.bsky.social · Jul 9
Obligatory reading for chocolate lovers, and highly recommended for global historians.
#chocolate #🗃️ #Spain
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How chocolate went from exotic curiosity to worldwide commodity | Aeon Essays
The humble cocoa bean’s journey from its Amerindian origins to worldwide dominance is a lesson in the power of trade
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Adrian Shubert @adrian53.bsky.social · Jul 8
Puerto Rico has its own history with the Spanish Civil War. Learn about it here.
#Publichistory #🗃️ #scwmuseum #PuertoRico

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Puerto Rico | Virtual Spanish Civil War
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Adrian Shubert @adrian53.bsky.social · Jul 2
What a wonderful object! Vouchers like this were part of the Republican government’s loss of the monopoly on the creation of money. Learn more about this aspect of the Spanish Civil War here: www.vscw.ca/index.php/en...
#🗃️ #Publichistory #Spain #scwmuseum
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Adrian Shubert @adrian53.bsky.social · Jun 30
So Surreal is available on Apple TV.
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Adrian Shubert @adrian53.bsky.social · Jun 30
I knew about the importance of African art to Picasso and others, but had never heard about the connection between surrealism and Indigenous art. I watched it on CBC Gem, but it may be streaming elsewhere.
#🗃️ #surrealism #art #Indigenous

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So Surreal: Behind the Masks
<em>So Surreal: Behind the Masks</em> unveils the fascinating connection between the work of famed Surrealist artists and Yupʼik and Kwakwa̱ka̱ʼwakw ceremonial masks, and the quest to bring some of th...
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Spanish Civil War Museum - Museo de la Guerra Civil Española @scwmuseum.bsky.social · Jun 29
En 1939 el triunfante Nuevo Estado anunciaba el establecimiento de un sistema de racionamiento de alimentos. A pesar de las promesas de Franco la realidad de corrupción ineficacia y simple ausencia de sensibilidad hacia los más pobres significó que se produjo en España en los años cuarenta
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Spanish Civil War Museum - Museo de la Guerra Civil Española @scwmuseum.bsky.social · Jun 29
On 14 May 1939, the triumphant New State announced the establishment of a food rationing system which would last until 1952. Despite Franco’s promises corruption, inefficiency, and a sheer lack of concern for the poorest led to an unprecedented famine during the 1940s
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Spacing @spacing.bsky.social · Jun 26
Why are Toronto's hot dog carts disappearing? And why don't they sell more than just sausages? Craig Meerkamper digs into Toronto's street food restrictions and how they might just be opening up. spacing.ca/toronto/2025...
Toronto is eating its hotdog vendors - Spacing Toronto
Toronto is internationally known for having a diverse palate, with culinary offerings ranging from the rigorously traditional to the cross-culturally experimental. Food remains Toronto’s most visible ...
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Adrian Shubert @adrian53.bsky.social · Jun 25
My colleague Margaret Schotte has just published this fascinating article in Aeon.
#🗃️ #Pirates #sailors
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How European sailors learned celestial navigation | Aeon Essays
How did the sailors of early modern Europe learn to traverse the world’s seas? By going to school and doing maths problems
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Adrian Shubert @adrian53.bsky.social · Jun 22
Aerial bombing by Italian planes led Barcelona to become a “city of air raid shelters”. More than 1300 appear on the interactive map described here.
#Publichistory #🗃️ #scwmuseum #Spain

www.vscw.ca/en/node/698
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Adrian Shubert @adrian53.bsky.social · Jun 19
Glad you liked it.
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Adrian Shubert @adrian53.bsky.social · Jun 19
"In late 2023, Salem Chapel became the first international listing in the National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom program by the US National Park Service." I wonder what the NPS says today. #Publichistory #🗃️ #NationalParkService
www.theguardian.com/news/2025/ju...
Harriet Tubman’s church in Canada was a crucial force in the abolitionist movement. It’s still standing today
Located in Ontario, the church provided shelter and aid to Black Americans who participated in the Underground Railroad to escape slavery in the US
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Adrian Shubert @adrian53.bsky.social · Jun 19
“The wars we wage against each other are all civil wars.” A powerful advocacy of globalization - not simply the post-1990 variety- as the core of humanity. aeon.co/essays/there...
#🗃️ # globalization
There are no pure cultures - we have always been global | Aeon Essays
All of our religions, stories, languages and norms were muddled and mixed through mobility and exchange throughout history
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Adrian Shubert @adrian53.bsky.social · Jun 18
You can enjoy Patricia Schechter's interview with my colleague Antonio Cazorla Sánchez in her fascinating podcast series Family Secrets of the Spanish Civil War here.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQNG.... It is also available on Spotify and Apple.
#Publichistory #scwmuseum #🗃️ #Spain
Episode Seven - Antonio Cazorla-Sánchez Interview
YouTube video by Family Secrets of the Spanish Civil War
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