For the coming months, we have the chance to welcome Louis Rivet-Préfontaine as a postdoctoral researcher at the Montreal History Group. His project, carried out under the supervision of Daniel Ross, offers a contemporary history investigation into Montreal “casse-croutes” (diners, snack bars, delis) founded around the middle of the 20th century and which have today […]

In the midst of a busy back-to-school season, the Montreal History Group has enthusiastically prepared its fall programming! Muffins & Methodology will begin next week with a presentation by Kristen Howard (McGill University) on a little-known issue, the work of inmates in the digitization of archives. In November, Sandrine Labelle (UQAM) will present her doctoral […]

The Montreal History Group invites you to a collective book launch! We will highlight the publication of four books published by our members or to which our members collaborated: Countercurrents : Women’s Movements in Postwar Montreal Amanda Ricci Montreal’s Square Mile : The Making and Transformation of a Colonial Metropole Ed. Dimitry Anastakis, Elizabeth Kirkland […]

Andrée Lévesque’s new book, Les filles de Jeanne : Histoires de vies anonymes, 1658-1915, will be published on April 16 by Éditions du remue-ménage and will be available in bookstores. The book retraces the journeys of anonymous peasant women : This story has very little to do with the political world. It focuses instead on […]

Six members of the Montreal History Group will take part in the New perspectives on research and practice in the history of labour, social movements and capitalism study days, organized at the invitation of the Canadian Committee on Labour History. Kathleen Durocher will present a paper entitled “Maladie professionnelle, lutte internationale et approche transnationale : […]