Active History is taking note of the tenth anniversary (and also the end of) the blog called Unwritten Histories. UH's authors have been reposting some of their fave posts at Active History as a farewell from their site.
Unwritten Histories may have been on my History Blogs of Note for a while; certainly I remember reading it. I admired its "Guide to Resources" and "Canadian History Roundup" posts. It was also a support blog for emerging historians, particularly women, struggling with graduate school and the search for employment (not my own situation at all, but an admirable service):
When I started Unwritten Histories, it was due to frustration and anger after having worked at a history department for three years, only to not even get an interview when the first permanent Canadian History job came up. At that point, I had been working as a sessional instructor for over 5 years, and I was exhausted. In one memorable semester, I had to get up at 5:30 am to take a coach bus and then a shuttle bus to teach an 8 am class two cities over from where I lived. The trip took two hours. After that class was over at 11, I had to wait 3 hours (because of conflicting bus schedules) before taking the same trip in reverse, to teach another 3 hours class from 6 to 9. I still don’t know how I did it. All I knew was that, after finding out I didn’t get the interview, it felt like my entire career had been a waste of time and I needed a new plan.
I'm side-eyeing that tenth anniversary announcement a little bit. UH launched in 2016, went silent in 2020, and now returns to claim ten years -- as it closes down. I'm entitled to quibble, I think; this blog has been running since (checks notes) 2004 and has barely missed a week. But history blogs, particularly Canadian ones, are always scarce, and Andrea Eidinger and Stephanie Pettigrew gave a lot to this one.
And good to note Active History remains very active and worth looking at. Here, for instance, is a note about its year-long Indian Act 150 series -- the Indian Act having been given royal assent on April 12, 1876.
