History: Jodey Nurse at the Guelph Public Library
On Thursday, October 17, PhD candidate Jodey Nurse will speak at the Main branch of the Guelph Public Library from 7pm to 9pm on "Exhibiting Great Taste and Skill: Women's Work at Fall Fa
On Thursday, October 17, PhD candidate Jodey Nurse will speak at the Main branch of the Guelph Public Library from 7pm to 9pm on "Exhibiting Great Taste and Skill: Women's Work at Fall Fa
On Thursday, October 17, PhD candidate Jodey Nurse will speak at the Main branch of the Guelph Public Library from 7pm to 9pm on "Exhibiting Great Taste and Skill: Women's Work at Fall Fairs
Philopolis, the only festival of public philosophy, takes place downtown on October 5th from 10:00–4:00, and includes a free lunch for all who attend. Admission is free and requires no registration. Be sure to join us for our social warmup on October 4th, 8:00 PM at OX café!
Happily ever after? Not really, says Adrienne Briggs, a recent Guelph history grad. Fairy tale endings are for Disney. To learn about the original and often graphic stories of Sleeping Beauty, Cinderella and the like, you might look over some of the hundreds of Scottish chapbooks in the U of G library archives.
That’s what Briggs and other students did earlier this year for a pilot project in their U of G history class that will see old-time chapbooks meet modern communications technology.
Chapbooks were popular booklets containing songs, ballads, poems and short stories written for the increasingly literate Scottish masses of the mid-1700s to mid-1800s, says history post-doc Andrew Ross. Between eight and 24 pages in length, they covered such topics as romance, travel, comedy, politics, fairy tales and social customs.
Read the rest of the story @Guelph.
Happily ever after? Not really, says Adrienne Briggs, a recent Guelph history grad. Fairy tale endings are for Disney. To learn about the original and often graphic stories of Sleeping Beauty, Cinderella and the like, you might look over some of the hundreds of Scottish chapbooks in the U of G library archives.
That’s what Briggs and other students did earlier this year for a pilot project in their U of G history class that will see old-time chapbooks meet modern communications technology.
Chapbooks were popular booklets containing songs, ballads, poems and short stories written for the increasingly literate Scottish masses of the mid-1700s to mid-1800s, says history post-doc Andrew Ross. Between eight and 24 pages in length, they covered such topics as romance, travel, comedy, politics, fairy tales and social customs.
Read the rest of the story @Guelph.