by Sarah Kahale | Sep 23, 2024 | News, UVicSpace
September 20, 2024 | National Post via UVic News A recent article published by National Post highlights the story of the Victoria Pioneer Rifle Corps — also known as the African Rifles — and its significance in British Columbia’s history. Governor James Douglas, an...
by Madison F. | Apr 23, 2024 | News, UVicSpace
April 16, 2024 | The Guardian via UVic News The 2013 documentary, Blackfish, sparked a critical look at the marine mammal training industry. The film portrayed a bleak image of orca trainers in the US, suggesting that the spectacle of orca shows conceals the true...
by ikehoe | Jul 18, 2023 | News, Open education
Learning from our Past is a new release published by the University of Victoria Libraries ePublishing Services. It can be downloaded for free on UVicSpace This middle school learning resource focuses on the history of livelihoods and lifeways in the Banda...
by Jennifer Ashmore | Jan 27, 2022 | News
Today marks International Holocaust Remembrance Day. This annual date serves not only as an official commemoration of the six million Jewish victims of the Holocaust, and the millions of other victims of Nazism, but to promote Holocaust education throughout the world....
by Stephanie Boulogne | Oct 2, 2020 | News, Open access, UVicSpace
By Stephen A. W. Chapco https://dspace.library.uvic.ca/handle/1828/6669 An M.A. thesis in the Department of History. Abstract: The opening of the Estates General in 1789 came at a time of momentous national crisis. France’s separate Three Estates were summoned to meet...
