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In Disparate Remedies: Making Medicines in Modern India, Nandini Bhattacharya details the cultural history of medicines in colonial and postcolonial India. In the guest blog below, Bhattacharya gives some important background information and introduces us to her new book.

While researching for and writing Disparate Remedies, I had in mind India’s flourishing pharmaceuticals industry, which expanded exponentially in … Read More >

Ian Garner’s new book, Stalingrad Lives: Stories of Combat and Survival, tells the hidden story of how Russia’s greatest wartime epic was created at the front.  Garner brings together a selection of short stories written at and after the battle. They reveal, for the first time in English, the real Russian narrative of Stalingrad … Read More >

In honour of Remembrance Day, we’ve created a reading list of recent military history titles.

We are very proud to have published Through Their Eyes, which imagines the experiences of Canadian soldiers during the First World War through graphic artwork and illustration. Tune in to The Sunday Edition this weekend to hear author Robert … Read More >

This post was previously published on October 7, 2020.

For the first time in the long history of the Olympics, the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games have been postponed until summer 2021 due to COVID-19. Unfortunately, this was not the only sporting event affected by this year’s pandemic—various leagues, tournaments, and … Read More >

“Friend beloved, this is my last letter in England. I will say simply ‘good night’—and pass out into the West.”  9th September 1909, Friend Beloved

The COVID-19 pandemic has had a disruptive impact on the ways in which we communicate and connect with others, creating an unprecedented need for distanced correspondence. From emails, … Read More >

“Both the educational system and the language have contributed to an awakening nationalism and a movement for Sámi Indigenous rights that pose a strong rebuttal to the assimilation, which was attempted at various times.” Marianne Stenbaek, Foreword to Language, Citizenship, and Sámi Education in the Nordic North, 1900-1940.

In 2019, the Finnish government announced … Read More >

Best known as the author of On Liberty, John Stuart Mill remains a canonical figure in liberalism today. Yet according to his autobiography, by the mid-1840s he placed himself “under the general designation of Socialist.”

For this week’s blog post, MQUP author Helen McCabe takes a closer look at Mill’s life and work in relation … Read More >

While the experiences of eighteenth-century Irish and Scottish North American immigrants are in many ways vastly different from our own, some of the challenges they faced are surprisingly comparable to those we might encounter today – even during the current global pandemic.

In this week’s guest blog post, Natasha Sumner and Aidan Doyle reflect on … Read More >

Devastating wildfires continue to scorch Western United States, an unprecedented and alarming addition to an already intense year of social, medical, and economic instability. We asked historian and MQUP author Alan MacEachern to reflect on the current disaster in the context of his book, The Miramichi Fire: A History.

On 7 October 1825, a … Read More >

“It must be given its place amid the clamour of countless cries heard throughout the era of Atlantic Revolutions, for more than any other, [the cry of Vertières] embodies the extraordinary strength of a country that is neither a martyr nor cursed, but determined to survive adversity and internal tension.”  Jean-Pierre Le Glaunec, The Cry … Read More >