Events & Past Lectures
OF SHIPS & (WO)MEN: Stories from the Crew Agreements
Julia Stryker
January 30, 2025
After 1850, every British ship carried a Crew Agreement and Official Log for every voyage it undertook. In addition to unprecedented information on the lives of average, laboring people, they preserve the wild, the weird, the tragic, and the beautiful moments of everyday life at sea at a time of monumental change. This talk will describe… Read More
Premier’s Heritage Medal
News · January 21, 2025
The NLHS was honoured to be chosen as a recipient of the inaugural Premier’s Heritage Medal, the “highest honour of recognition for the heritage sector in our province”. We were acknowledged by Premier Dr. Andrew Furey during a ceremony at the Colonial Building on December 9, 2024, for our “invaluable contribution to heritage practices and preservation… Read More
Annual Gilbert Higgins Lecture-The Forgotten History of the Newfoundland and Labrador Press Gallery Association
Michael Connors
November 28, 2024
Since 1833, journalists have covered the Newfoundland and Labrador legislature through a little-understood institution known as the Press Gallery. In 1969, they created a self-governing association to manage the workspace, but there was little consensus about how much authority that association should have. In his talk, journalist Michael Connors will discuss his book, Admit Strangers,… Read More
Celebrating the Everyday: Letters to Smallwood 1948-1950
Dr. Vicki Hallett, Dr. Sonja Boon, and Ms. Patricia Way
October 24, 2024
In these letters we get a taste of what life was like for people at that time, and how they were engaging with Smallwood directly as political agents. We want to celebrate this political legacy, which encourages all of us to think about how we understand the Confederation debates and eventual outcome, and what… Read More
52-48: Seventy-Five Years of Confederation, its Impact, and its Legacy
Dr. Raymond Blake and Dr. Jeff Webb
September 28, 2024
Please join us the Mockbeggar Plantation Provincial Historic Site in Bonavista – the home of confederation advocate and Newfoundland politician F. Gordon Bradley – for a joint talk by Newfoundland and Labrador historians Dr. Raymond Blake and Dr. Jeff Webb on the history of the politics of confederation to be followed by an open discussion… Read More