Historical Highlights 127

Happy Groundhog Day!

Here’s a Canadian story about the removal of a historical statue.

A massive new project “will combine available historical data on slavery into one searchable hub.”

Interesting article on the first census of Toronto’s Black population.

Is there really a network of secret tunnels under the city of Adelaide, Australia? 

Music fan? Listen to a 65-hour chronological playlist of Miles Davis’s music.

“90 Shakespeare Documents Recognized on UNESCO’s Memory of the World Register”

Regina libraries are now offering free walk-in counselling sessions.

If you have the opportunity, check out a new exhibit of literary maps in Cambridge, Massachusetts, featuring over 60 maps of places as diverse as More’s Utopia and A.A. Milne’s Hundred Acre Wood. (If you’re interested in literary cartography but are stuck at home, take a look at this book instead.)

Enjoy your weekend. (Winter is halfway through!)

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