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“To Tidy Minds it May Appear Illogical”: How the Commonwealth Evolved from an ‘Imperial Club’ to an International Organisation
(University of Waterloo, 2020-07-02)The history of the Commonwealth is vast and multifaceted. It touches on myriad fields, actors, and eras, and reaches from the local to the global. Amidst the Gordian knot of Commonwealth history this thesis is about ... -
The Transformation of a Medieval Sussex Vineyard into a Deer Park, a Case Study: The Arundel "Little Park" 1150-1400
(University of Waterloo, 2021-09-24)This thesis examines medieval deer parks in West Sussex from 1150-1400 with a thorough case study of Arundel’s “Little Park”. This paper sheds light on the common medieval English practice of imparking to understand its ... -
The Troubled Life and Loves of Lady Anne Lennard: Illegitimacy, sexuality, and mistressdom at the court of Charles II, 1690-1720
(University of Waterloo, 2016-05-20)Despite her infamy, the life of Lady Anne Lennard, formally styled the Countess of Sussex, has never received an in-depth examination. As the natural daughter of King Charles II of England born via his mistress Barbara ... -
Understanding the London Corresponding Society: A Balancing Act between Adversaries Thomas Paine and Edmund Burke
(University of Waterloo, 2013-01-25)This thesis examines the intellectual foundation of the London Corresponding Society’s (LCS) efforts to reform Britain's Parliamentary democracy in the 1790s. The LCS was a working population group fighting for universal ... -
War, Factionalism, and Civil-Military Tension: The Madras Army and the Company State in the Carnatic, 1767-1777
(University of Waterloo, 2018-05-23)This study explores how the Madras Army and its officers helped to shape the East India Company’s developing state in the Carnatic during the late 1760s and 1770s, and in particular it draws attention to their critical ... -
We Are All Digital Now: Digital Photography and the Reshaping of Historical Practice
(Canadian Historical Review, 2020-12)Visiting a reading room in the last five years is a very different experience than what it looked like even fifteen years ago: while a few researchers carefully read archival documents in situ, most are crouched over their ... -
“We are wards of the Crown and cannot be regarded as full citizens of Canada”: Native Peoples, the Indian Act and Canada’s War Effort
(University of Waterloo, 2011-09-29)The First World War left few untouched on Canada’s Native reserves: many councils donated money to war funds, thousands of men enlisted and their families sought support from the Military and war-specific charities, and ... -
"We of the New Left": A Gender History of the Student Union for Peace Action from the Anti-Nuclear Movement to Women's Liberation
(University of Waterloo, 2017-09-20)The Student Union for Peace Action (SUPA), was a Canadian group of New Leftists that formed a multi-issue movement for radical social change in the 1960s. SUPA emerged out of the Combined Universities Campaign for Nuclear ... -
Welcome to the web: The online community of GeoCities during the early years of the World Wide Web
(UCL Press, 2017-03)As the World Wide Web entered mainstream North American society in the mid-to late 1990s, GeoCities was there to welcome users with open arms. GeoCities helped to facilitate their first steps into publishing, so they could ... -
Wetland Reclamation in England: Medieval Risk Culture and the 1396 Commission of Sewers for Pevensey Levels
(University of Waterloo, 2017-10-24)This paper examines wetland reclamation in England between the eighth and sixteenth centuries, with a special focus on the Pevensey Levels during the fourteenth century. Coastal marsh communities had access to significant ... -
White Paper: Measuring Research Outputs Through Bibliometrics
(University of Waterloo, 2016)This White Paper provides a high-level review of issues relevant to understanding bibliometrics, and practical recommendations for how to appropriately use these measures. This is not a policy paper; instead, it defines ... -
A Window into October: Examining the Framing of the October Crisis of 1970 in Canada's English-Language Newspapers
(University of Waterloo, 2019-07-02)Much of the historiography on the October Crisis has centred around whether the War Measures Act (WMA) represented a necessary deployment of available legislation to crush a threat to national order and security, or an ... -
With Them And Against Them: Canada's Relations With Nicaragua, 1979-1990
(University of Waterloo, 2009-09-02)Canada's relations with Nicaragua changed greatly during the 1980s after the Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN) came to power in a revolution which overthrew the Somoza dynasty. For the first few years of the ... -
Writing the Historian's Macroscope in Public
(American Historical Association, 2014-10)Exploring Big Historical Data: The Historian's Macroscope - A short book summary by the authors exploring their own rationale, and the historical context for the book's themes, including descriptions of the collaborative ... -
“Your Sons and Daughters Shall Prophesy”: Visions, Apocalypticism, and Gender in Strasbourg, 1522-1539
(University of Waterloo, 2019-04-05)This study examines the life and work of Lienhard and Ursula Jost, two peasant religious visionaries active in Strasbourg between 1522 and 1539, in the midst of the religious turmoil of the early Reformation. The Josts ...