Kirrily Freeman is Associate Professor of History at Saint Mary’s University in Halifax. Her teaching and research focus on the social and cultural history of the two world wars. Her first book, Bronzes to Bullets: Vichy and the Destruction of French Public Statuary (Stanford UP, 2009) dealt with the French campaign to melt metal statues during WWII. Her current book looks at the town of Vichy and its efforts to reinvent itself since the Second World War.
RNSHS Presents Kirby Ross ‘Women and the War at Home: Pictou County Women in Industrialized Work, 1939 to 1945: The New Women Worker of Shipbuilding
The RNSHS Annual Dinner and Lecture is tonight! We’ll be making our best effort to stream Kirby Ross’ presentation ‘Women & the War at Home:..
The Royal Nova Scotia Historical Society presents Dr. Kenneth Paulsen and his talk “Invisible Victims: The Trial for the Murders of the Emoneau..
Join us at the Nova Scotia Archives this Wednesday night, March 20th, at 7:30pm (or here on Facebook!) for Dr. Kenneth Paulsen’s lecture on the..
Dr. Cecil Foster will be @Pier21 next Tuesday to read from his new book. Railway porters featured in the work were members of Black communities..
Check out Tonight’s lecture now being live-streamed on Facebook Royal Nova Scotia Historical Society. Kirby Ross on women working during WW2 at Pictou Shipyard
The RNSHS Dinner is tonight! We'll be making an effort to stream Kirby Ross' lecture 'Women & the War at Home: Pictou County Women in Industrialized Work, 1939 to 1945: The New Woman Worker of Shipbuilding' via our FB page! Tune in after 7:15pm & wait for a live video to begin! pic.twitter.com/WhcVpk9Ix1
