|
ben bradley
@benbradleyca.bsky.social
[ View ] |
what do you mean, "extremely niche"!?!?!
1 replies 0 reposts 1 likes
|
|
ben bradley@benbradleyca.bsky.social |
391 followers 383 following 354 posts
cultural & environmental historian. #bchist and #cdnhist and #envhist. landscape, mobilities, public pasts, fordism, tourism, parks, infrastructure, rowdies, fruit stands, seasonality, 1970+, etc.
|
|
ben bradley
@benbradleyca.bsky.social
[ View ] |
what do you mean, "extremely niche"!?!?!
1 replies 0 reposts 1 likes
|
|
ben bradley
@benbradleyca.bsky.social
[ View ] |
although, what a nice, toothy smile!
0 replies 0 reposts 1 likes
|
Kelly Black
@kellyb.bsky.social
[ View ] |
I’m cringing listening to community members in Kelowna trying to get a public institution to purchase/operate this historic house. The house museums that already exist are barely surviving-I can’t imagine a new one gaining the financial support needed
globalnews.ca/news/1058905... #BcHist #CdnHist
1 replies 2 reposts 7 likes
|
|
ben bradley
@benbradleyca.bsky.social
[ View ] |
100% serious: just got closure on a case of plagiarism (by a professor at u b c) today, only to get a phone call from my mum (!) this evening to tell me that a poplar bc-related magazine appears to have completely plagiarized an article that i co-authored. have just looked into it, and shes correct
1 replies 3 reposts 19 likes
|
|
ben bradley
@benbradleyca.bsky.social
[ View ] |
its not even like bryan adams or joe sakics house
1 replies 0 reposts 1 likes
|
American Society for Environmental History
@aseh.bsky.social
[ View ] |
Our Call for Proposals closes in less than one month! Get your proposals in soon and we'll see you in Pittsburgh!
0 replies 7 reposts 3 likes
|
|
ben bradley
@benbradleyca.bsky.social
[ View ] |
vertical and horizontal movements at the "outward bound" wilderness adventure school near keremeos bc, mid 1970s. images from the "beautiful british columbia magazine" collection at the bc archives.
#bchist #cdnhist #envhist
0 replies 0 reposts 0 likes
|
|
ben bradley
@benbradleyca.bsky.social
[ View ] |
historical (perhaps vintage?) photos of bc antique stores in the 1970s, from the fabulous "beautiful british columbia magazine" collection of the bc archives. #bchist #cdnhist
0 replies 3 reposts 5 likes
|
|
ben bradley
@benbradleyca.bsky.social
[ View ] |
historical (perhaps vintage?) photos of bc antique stores in the 1970s, from the fabulous "beautiful british columbia magazine" collection of the bc archives. #bchist #cdnhist
0 replies 3 reposts 5 likes
|
|
ben bradley
@benbradleyca.bsky.social
[ View ] |
ha, awesome! gotta teach those british immigrants to the okanagan about "ontario" history...
1 replies 0 reposts 1 likes
|
|
ben bradley
@benbradleyca.bsky.social
[ View ] |
which is more troublesome: advertising auto tourism in the fraser canyon in a princeton-based paper, or associating auto travel through the fraser canyon with alcohol consumption? from the similkameen star, 10 may 1951.
#bchist #cdnhist #envhist
0 replies 1 reposts 3 likes
|
The Slides
@theslides.bsky.social
[ View ] |
"US Navy 35mm presentation slides," slide 17 of 20 [gallery]
0 replies 2 reposts 4 likes
|
|
ben bradley
@benbradleyca.bsky.social
[ View ] |
kelowna bc celebrating dominion day with a champlain commemorative float, late 1920s perhaps? #cdnhist
1 replies 0 reposts 2 likes
|
|
ben bradley
@benbradleyca.bsky.social
[ View ] |
if id seen ricky, not sure i couldve resisted shouting "its fackin reveen!"
0 replies 0 reposts 0 likes
|
|
ben bradley
@benbradleyca.bsky.social
[ View ] |
been presenting at the alcohol and drug history society conference in buffalo ny the last few days. my talk briefly mentioned bob & doug mackenzie, fubar, and trailer park boys. and i shit you not, just saw julian from tpb in the hotel lobby -- apparently theyre here for some pop culture convention
1 replies 0 reposts 3 likes
|
|
ben bradley
@benbradleyca.bsky.social
[ View ] |
what if you first get hired in your mid 40s?
0 replies 0 reposts 1 likes
|
Ross Fair
@rossfair.bsky.social
[ View ] |
Look what’s just been released!
#aghist #cdnhist
utorontopress.com/978148755353...
1 replies 4 reposts 9 likes
|
|
ben bradley
@benbradleyca.bsky.social
[ View ] |
berton was like... the douglas coupland of his time
0 replies 0 reposts 0 likes
|
|
ben bradley
@benbradleyca.bsky.social
[ View ] |
canada is like 1.5 million square kms bigger
1 replies 0 reposts 0 likes
|
Canadian History Ehx
@cdnhistoryehx.bsky.social
[ View ] |
You will never know what you will learn reading a Canadian history book. Today I discovered that Pierre Berton played a character on the classic show Rocket Robin Hood. It was just described as a humanoid, and I couldn't find anything else about it. Wish I could see the episode
2 replies 3 reposts 6 likes
|
|
ben bradley
@benbradleyca.bsky.social
[ View ] |
please please stop saying "scalable". "solidify" too
2 replies 0 reposts 1 likes
|
|
ben bradley
@benbradleyca.bsky.social
[ View ] |
a great cbc vancouver piece from 1968 or 1969, about the "cool aid" hostel in that city, which served transient youths. (cool aid vancouver pre-dated but did not last as long as cool aid victoria.)
#bchist #cdnhist
@cbcstephenquinn.bsky.social @jmcelroy.bsky.social
www.youtube.com/watch?v=eERq...
0 replies 2 reposts 1 likes
|
|
ben bradley
@benbradleyca.bsky.social
[ View ] |
heading to the alcohol and drug history society conference in buffalo later this week, and wondering what kind of catering they have for coffee breaks, etc. #cdnhist
0 replies 1 reposts 3 likes
|
ruthko
@ruthmkb.bsky.social
[ View ] |
“I read the report; it says nothing about closing the Science Centre,” said Elsa Lam, editor of Canadian Architect Magazine. #OntarioScienceCentre #FordIsCorrupt #FordFailedOntario #onpoli globalnews.ca/news/1058245...
1 replies 8 reposts 18 likes
|
Kieran Healy
@kjhealy.bsky.social
[ View ] |
New version of chatbot reaches level of function where it responds to all queries by making a little twisty-wrist gesture with pinched fingers and saying “But isn’t it more *complicated* than that?”
90 replies 208 reposts 1301 likes
|
|
ben bradley
@benbradleyca.bsky.social
[ View ] |
"oh sure, and pigs might fly..."
0 replies 0 reposts 1 likes
|
|
ben bradley
@benbradleyca.bsky.social
[ View ] |
aerial views of moose lake, red pass junction bc, and the fraser river in the mid 1970s. from the "beautiful british columbia" photo collection of the bc archives.
#bchist #cdnhist #envhist
0 replies 0 reposts 6 likes
|
|
ben bradley
@benbradleyca.bsky.social
[ View ] |
setting out for the sauble beach district, which ive never visited before. hope it has cooled down a bit, 49 years on from the rowdy summer of 1975. #cdnhist
1 replies 2 reposts 12 likes
|
|
ben bradley
@benbradleyca.bsky.social
[ View ] |
while its great that one of the grain elevators at creston bc has been restored and adapted for new uses, its still a bit sad that the other is about to be demolished. they arent common in that neck of the woods.
#aghist #bchist #cdnhist
www.nelsonstar.com/home/creston...
0 replies 0 reposts 1 likes
|
Camden Burd
@camdenburd.bsky.social
[ View ] |
We have a book cover people! The folks at Cornell Press nailed it. Now available for pre-order! www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...
5 replies 10 reposts 45 likes
|
ActiveHistory.ca
@activehist.bsky.social
[ View ] |
The first post in David M. K. Sheinin's series, "The Late 1980s Crisis in Toronto Public Housing," is live today. Read about Gertrude Wright's story in "Part I – Disability and Danger."
0 replies 2 reposts 4 likes
|
|
ben bradley
@benbradleyca.bsky.social
[ View ] |
great swag at #chashc2024, especially the free “mqup” neck tattoos to recognize jamie jelinski’s new book
0 replies 0 reposts 0 likes
|
|
ben bradley
@benbradleyca.bsky.social
[ View ] |
drive ice cubes on her?
0 replies 0 reposts 2 likes
|
Forrest Pass
@forrestpass.bsky.social
[ View ] |
Thrift-store find of the weekend: a 1914 watercolour of Mount Robson by the Ottawa historical illustrator and landscape painter John Henry de Rinzy (1852-1936). Coinciding with the arrival of the Canadian Northern Railway at Yellowhead Pass. @benbradleyca.bsky.social #cdnhist #bchist
2 replies 2 reposts 12 likes
|
|
ben bradley
@benbradleyca.bsky.social
[ View ] |
thats one of the most unusual "mount robson" depictions ive seen! here is the closest analog from my collection of mt robson postcards and other representations. strikingly similar foreground, but got the peaks and striated face right. artist name appears to be ??? russell. #bchist #cdnhist
1 replies 0 reposts 2 likes
|
|
ben bradley
@benbradleyca.bsky.social
[ View ] |
perhaps of interest?
www.amazon.ca/Sublime-Vern...
0 replies 0 reposts 2 likes
|
|
ben bradley
@benbradleyca.bsky.social
[ View ] |
my research indicates that "alto" on parc just north of sherbrooke is the best place for it downtown. anyone up to test this hypothesis?
0 replies 0 reposts 0 likes
|
|
American Society for Environmental History
@aseh.bsky.social
[ View ] |
ASEH 2025 Call for Proposals is now open, and we can't wait to see yinz in Pittsburgh! Proposals are due 8/1 and while full panels are strongly preferred, we will accept single paper submissions. Click below to submit and to read the full CfP:
admin.allacademic.com/one/aseh/ase...
0 replies 13 reposts 11 likes
|
|
ben bradley
@benbradleyca.bsky.social
[ View ] |
i always like what you post, even if i dont "like" it
1 replies 0 reposts 0 likes
|
|
ben bradley
@benbradleyca.bsky.social
[ View ] |
1 replies 0 reposts 1 likes
|
|
ben bradley
@benbradleyca.bsky.social
[ View ] |
best pizza-ghetti in montreal is served where??? 🍕🍝
0 replies 0 reposts 1 likes
|
|
ben bradley
@benbradleyca.bsky.social
[ View ] |
if we could rig up some kind of powerful powerpoint projector, not too late to relocate CHA 2024 to the tam-tam park on mount royal...
0 replies 1 reposts 7 likes
|
NiCHE Canada
@nichecanada.bsky.social
[ View ] |
Pairs well with our ongoing Relict Landscapes series!
Abandoned Manitoba 2: Port Nelson, Manitoba's Forgotten Seaport on Hudso... youtu.be/iOPhZdojCx4?...
#cdnhist #envhist #manitoba
1 replies 1 reposts 2 likes
|
|
ben bradley
@benbradleyca.bsky.social
[ View ] |
i suspect the reason the journal with the radical take on history will not acknowledge this as having been taken from my work without acknowledgement is that to do so would indicate that the author "borrowed" from my diss as well as my monograph and my personal flickr collection. #systematic
1 replies 2 reposts 1 likes
|
|
ben bradley
@benbradleyca.bsky.social
[ View ] |
if you dont mind walking a few blocks west, sushi on bloor is good (and right near bmv books)
1 replies 0 reposts 1 likes
|
|
ben bradley
@benbradleyca.bsky.social
[ View ] |
shocking museum mutation desecration, naksup bc, june 1997. #bchist #cdnhist @saraspike.bsky.social
2 replies 0 reposts 2 likes
|
|
ben bradley
@benbradleyca.bsky.social
[ View ] |
looking towards mount robson, highest point in the canadian rockies, from the southwest in the 1970s. showing the fraser river (centre), yellowhead highway 16 (at left) and two canadian national rail lines plus the trans-mountain pipeline (at right). #bchist #cdnhist #envhist
0 replies 1 reposts 9 likes
|
Dolly Jørgensen
@dollyjorgensen.bsky.social
[ View ] |
Excited to see Sharing Spaces: Technology, Mediation, and Human-Animal Relationships, edited By @finnarne.me and me, coming out in October
upittpress.org/books/978082...
You can pre-order now - and then it'll be a pleasant surprise when it shows up in your mailbox in October 🐻
#envhist
4 replies 15 reposts 43 likes
|
|
ben bradley
@benbradleyca.bsky.social
[ View ] |
strong endorsement for museums being in heavy rotation!
0 replies 0 reposts 1 likes
|
|
ben bradley
@benbradleyca.bsky.social
[ View ] |
students find the analog-ness of it kind of fun, but its very useful for emphasizing how much work it takes to make notes and keep the in a semi organized manner, whatever them format(s) one might be using. i assign it along with some other items, as seen here
1 replies 0 reposts 3 likes