Events & Past Lectures
Past “Aspects” – New Article
News · August 28, 2021
A new addition has been made to the Past “Aspects” page, which contains our “Aspects” articles from past issues of the Newfoundland Quarterly and is located under our Publications Page. This new posting, by Terry Bishop Stirling, deals with how Newfoundlanders first learned about Beaumont Hamel and how newspapers portrayed these events. ( More articles will… Read More
George Story Lecture – The Return of History? Newfoundland & Labrador after the Oil Boom and the Hydro Bust (On Line Lecture)
Dr. Jerry Bannister
April 29, 2021
This lecture explores the changing roles of history since the province’s economic downturn. It traces patterns in political culture and collective memory from the Williams era to the present day, as the province experienced the end of triumphalism and the return to a politics of loss. In discussing the causes and consequences of the Muskrat… Read More
Food Fight: Food Rationing, Price Control, and Feeding Newfoundlanders in the Great War (Online Lecture)
Michael Westcott, PhD
March 25, 2021
Without an abundance of fertile soil to grow crops, Newfoundlanders and Labradorians have always depended on food imports from the United Kingdom, Canada, and the United States to sustain life. The Great War’s impact on the global economy, and the U-Boat menace, created shortages and threatened to cut Newfoundland off from the vital necessities of… Read More
“Let ’em die”: The 1918 Influenza Pandemic in Labrador (Online Lecture)
Anne Budgell
February 25, 2021
During the second wave of the pandemic of “Spanish” influenza in 1918, the virus was brought to the coast of Labrador at the end of the fishing and shipping season. People started dying days after the last vessels sailed away for the long winter. Word of the disaster did not reach the outside world for… Read More
“Newfoundland and Labrador Women Creating Place Through Story” (Online Lecture)
Dr. Vicki S. Hallett
January 28, 2021
We make place through the stories we tell about it. We create our sense of who we are, but also our sense of where we are and where we belong by telling tales. Join the NLHS as Dr. Vicki Hallett discusses two fascinating women who have made important contributions to the story of this place,… Read More