Military Lecture Series

Image: 1864 Union recruitment broadside, P. S. Duval and Son, Philadelphia Guelph Museums’ 2020-2021 military lecture series is going digital!  Dana Weiner presents, Fighting for Citizenship: Black Union Soldiers on…

Guelph Museums’ 2020-2021 military lecture series is going digital!  Dr. Alex Souchen presents, War Junk: Munitions Disposal and Postwar Reconstruction in Canada. War Junk reveals the complex political, economic, social, and environmental legacies of munitions disposal in Canada. During the Second World War, Canadian factories produced mountains of munitions and supplies, including some 800 ships, 16,000…

Meridian gate, the entrance to the Emperor’s quarters in Beijing’s Forbidden City, 1900.   Blaine Chiasson presents, A Tethered Dragon: The Eight Nation Army Occupation of Beijing & Tianjin, 1900-1902. In September 1900 American, British, French, Italian, Russian, German, Japanese and Austro-Hungarian troops, the multi-national ‘Eight Nation Army’ occupied northern China, having invaded Qing China…

Electric Heat Cabinet - Military Hospital Commission - Cobourg, Ontario   Heather Ellis presents, Hidden Scars: Uncovering the Lived Experience of Shell-Shocked Ex-Servicemen. 1918 marked the end of the First World War, but for returning soldiers it was the beginning of adjustment, recovery and, in some cases, collapse. The transition from war to peace was…

The Capture of Puerto Bello, 21 November 1739 by George Chambers, Senior, 1836, National Maritime Museum, Greenwich BHC0355   Paul Mansell presents, The Great Sickness of 1740: War, Typhus, and the Royal Navy. In 1739, after two and a half decades of relative peace, Spain and Britain entered into the War of Jenkins’ Ear (1739-48).…