At the turn of the twentieth century, County Durham, a coal-mining region in England’s Northeast, experienced some of the highest infant mortality rates in the country. At the same time, medical discourse focused on improving ...

This thesis examines the borderlands history of the Cree (nêhiyawak; primarily under Chief Little Bear) from 1885 to 1917. It combines archival research, digital mapping (GIS), ethnohistory, and data analysis to track ...

As England’s first colony, Ireland’s experience is of great significance to wider colonial studies. Similarities exist between settler societies such as Australia, Canada and Ireland in terms of economic structures and ...

Between 1946 and 1948, Guatemalan prostitutes were hired by American medical researchers to engage in sexual intercourse with prisoners and soldiers. These women were among the non-consenting and often overlooked subject-groups ...

The choice of the years 1905 to 1919 as the formative years of the trade union movement in Saskatchewan was by no means arbitrary. The years 1905 marked the formation of the first permanent, non-railway local union. The ...

Despite what the title suggests, Saskatchewan had a booming sex trade in its early years. The area attracted hundreds of women sex workers before Saskatchewan had even become a province in 1905. They were drawn to the area ...

This thesis examines the subjective experiences of twelve same-sex attracted men who received psychiatric LSD-25 therapy on the basis of their sexual orientation between 1955 and 1973 at Hollywood Hospital, a private ...

This thesis is an analysis of the changes in the nursing profession in naval health provision in Britain in the early eighteenth century. In particular, it examines the experiences of nurses who cared for disabled ex-servicemen ...

When the Second World War came to an end, some 150 thousand Ukrainian Ostarbeiters (civilian labourers who were forcibly recruited to work for the Nazi economy during the war) refused to return from Germany to the ...

Much has been written about the foreign policy of Sir Edward Grey as part of the attempt to illumninate the origians of the First World War. While Grey has been criticized by some historians for various parts of his policy, ...