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Public History Students ‘Examine’ Medicine’s Past
June 16, 2025
Developed by Western students in Professor Mike Dove’s History 3813E course, in partnership with Fanshawe Pioneer Village, Western’s Medical Artifact Collection, Banting House NHS, and the Heritage Museum, the exhibit showcases artifacts chosen and interpreted by students who gained hands-on research, curation, and public-presentation experience. It runs in the Trillium Gallery at the Spriet Family Visitor Centre through October 3, Tuesdays–Thursdays, 10 am–4 pm (with special Canada Day hours).
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2024-25 Betty Bartlett Public History Experiential Learning Internship for Local History
February 13, 2025
Maggie King received the 2024–25 Betty Bartlett Public History Internship for her research on Point Abino’s history. Her work led to a published paper and inspired her to pursue heritage work, including a role with the Ontario Historical Society and upcoming graduate studies at Oxford.
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History Programs' Visit to the Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum!
February 02, 2024
Twenty-five students from Western’s undergraduate history and public history programs travelled to the Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum in Hamilton for a full day of history fun!
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2023 Betty Bartlett Public History Experiential Learning Internship for Local History
April 03, 2023
Paige Milner became the first recipient of the Betty Bartlett Public History Experiential Learning Internship for Local History, to be offered annually to undergraduate students enrolled on main campus who participate in an experiential learning opportunity with a heritage organization focusing on local history.
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Public History students launch new exhibit
April 26, 2022
From now until early summer, visitors to the J.A. Schweitzer Gallery in Western’s Weldon Library can view a new student-led exhibit on a highly significant yet little known part of Canadian wartime medical history. Three undergraduate history students in HIS3813E: Public History worked with Western Archives to curate an exhibit on Western University’s No. 10 Stationary Hospital. Through several themes including medical work, nursing, and daily life, the exhibit highlights the enormous level of volunteerism and humanitarianism among the members of the hospital unit formed under the command of Western’s Dr. Edwin Seaborn for overseas service during the First World War.
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HIS3813E Public History CityStudio Group Project - Indigenous Veterans Day
April 21, 2022
Congratulations go out to six public history students for their year-end project being given an Honourable Mention at this year’s City Studio London HUBBUB Student Project Showcase!
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Western's Minor Program in Public History Welcomes its First Graduate!
September 16, 2019
Congratulations go out to Elise Geschiere, the first student to graduate from Western with a Minor in Public History!
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“Spanning the Gap: Commemorating the 75th Anniversary of the Transition from World War II to Peace in London, Ontario”: A Historypin Collection!
June 19, 2019
This year in History 3813E: Public History, three students worked with Archivist Tom Belton at Western Archives to create a fabulous new collection on the Historypin website. “Spanning the Gap: Commemorating the 75th Anniversary of the Transition from World War II to Peace in London, Ontario” displays and describes eleven relevant photographs taken between 1944 and 1947 and contained within the London Free Press Collection of Photographic Negatives at Western Archives.
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Public history students curate new exhibit: “Nursing at Western”!
March 25, 2019
To commemorate the upcoming centenary of Western’s School of Nursing in 2020, History 3813E students Karen McAllister, Faith Sebastian, and Courtenay Smith researched, designed and installed a new exhibit on display this spring at the John A. Schweitzer Gallery of Western Archives in DB Weldon Library. The exhibit highlights several aspects of Nursing history here at Western, with particular emphasis on education, training, campus life and graduation!