Like many of us, I grew up in a time of protest. In Canada, we marched against the war in Vietnam (I carried a placard with the catchy sloga...

"Do you remember where you were on 20 July, 1969?" * I do. I was in the basement with my dad. We'd put the TV down there becau...

Historical research makes use of venerable sources and texts held in reputable libraries and unimpeachable online sites, methodically uncove...

Tom Lehrer in 1960 (wiki commons) We live in insane times. And the Cold War was an insane time. And so I guess it's not surprising I...

  A lovely film. Make yourself a cup of tea and let the voices wash over you. It's wartime and has been for some time, but the sheep sti...

I joined the History Girls as a writer of historical fiction for 8-12 year olds, way back in 2012.  And now I write historical non-fiction f...

In 2012, I wrote a History Girls post about Bicycles and Revolution  - I was just a reservist back then, and it was just a casual interest....

Elders playing a two-person organistrum Santiago de Compostela, Spain 12th century (wiki commons) What has more than 90 moving parts, was on...

The last year or so I've been eye obsessed, as my cataracts got thicker and my outlook got blurrier. Two operations later (plus some mon...

Talking History:150 Years of Speakers and Speeches by Joan Haig and Joan Lennon illustrated by Andr é  Ducci Templar Publishing 20 Jan. 2022...

I'm proud to be a History Girl.  But I'm also a Historical Girl, in so far as many things I grew up with are now considered History....

[I've been thinking about travel, in these times without, and would like to repost something I did back in 2013 about the intrepid, fier...

Watch this, recorded in September 1967.  Does it bring back memories, or is it something new? We Will All Go Together Or how about this one,...

I'm a History Girl.  I'm an advocate of fiction as a way into the past.  And non-fiction as a way into the past.  Then, in-bet...

The Log Driver's Waltz was one of a series of short films made by the Canadian Film Board to use as "interstitial programming"...

My sister has been writing a biography of our grandmother, based on her letters from China, which my cousin has painstakingly transcribed.* ...