I’m happy to announce the publication of two new books in the Ashgate Series in Nineteenth-Century Transatlantic Studies (the book series I co-edit with Julia Wright of Dalhousie University). Susan Manning calls Joselyn Almeida’s book, Reimagining the Transatlantic, 1780-1890, an ”important and impressive study” of the pan-Atlantic world. Examining such authors as William Robertson, Francisco de Miranda, Toussaint Louverture, and […]
Last weekend I had the pleasure of attending the Bond Head Festival in the hamlet of Bond Head in Simcoe County, Ontario, as an invited speaker. Marking the 175th anniversary of the hamlet’s founding as a village circa 1837, the festival was a wonderful celebration of history and culture, boasting live music, arts and crafts, historical tours, a vintage […]
Yesterday evening I was a guest of the John Buchan Society at a small dinner party hosted by Lady Deborah Buchan Stewartby at the University Club in Toronto. Lady Deborah, Buchan’s granddaughter, is currently visiting Canada from her home in Scotland to raise awareness of her grandfather’s work as an author and as a former governor general of Canada, and […]
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Kevin Hutchings
