Creating Toronto: A Walking Tour
This year, I was pleased to be asked to lead a Heritage Toronto walking tour of downtown, entitled “Creating Toronto: The Story of the City in Seven Stops”.
Remaking and Reimagining the City
I’m excited to be presenting my research on the Toronto Eaton Centre for the first time at the annual meeting of the CHA in Ottawa.
Toronto vs. Montréal: A Short History
In this post, I look back at nearly two centuries of real (and imagined) rivalry between Canada’s two metropoles.
The king in a car park: Digging up Richard III
In this post, I take a look at Richard III´s extraordinary return to the public eye over the past two years: it’s a story about much more than archaeology and historical inquiry, as it turns out.
Private Parts in Public Places
New History Lab is a seminar series at the University of Leicester, organized by graduate students in the School of History.
Feeling the City: Getting at the Historical Sights and Sounds of Downtown
In today’s post, I want to talk about how the “feel of the city” has come up in my own research, why it matters, and what one innovative UK project is doing to record and interpret it.
“When Sex Dominated Yonge Street”: My piece in Spacing Magazine’s Fall 2014 issue
My article in the latest issue of Spacing takes a look at 1970s debates over vice on Yonge Street. Check it out!
Stop the Smut! Citizen Activism and Toronto’s Sin Strip, 1972-1973
This Friday, October 3rd, I’ll be taking part in a panel on vice and citizen activism at a conference in Montréal. The only thing is…I’m in the UK.
Across the pond
This fall, the view from my window looks a bit different. Until December, I’ll be an Honorary Visiting Fellow at the Centre for Urban History in Leicester, UK.
Urban Transformations: An Avenue For Academic Work in the Community
Over the weekend of June 20-22, Urban Transformations opened the doors of the Wychwood Barns to academics and urbanists.
2014 World Congress of Environmental History
From July 7-14 I’ll join environmental historians from around the world in Portugal for the 2nd WCEH conference.
Here and Now
On June 20th I biked down to the iconic CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation) building in downtown Toronto for an interview on the popular afternoon show Here and Now, with Gill Deacon.
An idea whose time has come: A city museum for Toronto
Over the last forty years Toronto has seen a number of bold proposals for a city museum. Recently, the launch of the Museum of Toronto project breathed new life into the cause.
Urban Transformations
I’m one of the organizers of Urban Transformations, a symposium about major urban issues and themes as they’ve played out along Toronto’s St. Clair West corridor.
