Time on your hands? Historical interests? Interested, I mean, not in mere gossip and trivia, but serious sustained history: Not just Canadian history, not just nineteenth century history, but 19th century Canadian political history?
Got a podcast for you.
Since mid-January, as if he knew social isolation was coming, almost, Christopher Dummitt who teaches at Trent University in Peterborough, Ont., has been producing, once every week, a new episode of his podcast on the political-military history of Canada from the late 1830s though the 1860s: "1867 and All That." Twenty-one episodes so far. 40 minutes or so per episode -- a lot of work, a lot listening.
There is some music, but mostly, it's Dummitt talking to you, and it's no idle-chat podcast. I've been listening to his episodes on the 1840s, and they are a deep dive into names like Sydenham, Bagot, Metcalfe, and other worthies of the struggle for and against responsible government -- people in whom I thought no Canadianist history professor has taken an interest for most of a century. I'm in.
And if you start at the beginning, in the 1830s, there is armed revolutionary violence and all that. Confederation? Yet to come.
Since mid-January, as if he knew social isolation was coming, almost, Christopher Dummitt who teaches at Trent University in Peterborough, Ont., has been producing, once every week, a new episode of his podcast on the political-military history of Canada from the late 1830s though the 1860s: "1867 and All That." Twenty-one episodes so far. 40 minutes or so per episode -- a lot of work, a lot listening.
There is some music, but mostly, it's Dummitt talking to you, and it's no idle-chat podcast. I've been listening to his episodes on the 1840s, and they are a deep dive into names like Sydenham, Bagot, Metcalfe, and other worthies of the struggle for and against responsible government -- people in whom I thought no Canadianist history professor has taken an interest for most of a century. I'm in.
And if you start at the beginning, in the 1830s, there is armed revolutionary violence and all that. Confederation? Yet to come.
