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Don Wright’s Red Trench: Anatomy of an Art Controversy

Jeff A. Webb

Beneath the ‘Anglo-Irish’ Veil: The Chinese Diaspora in Newfoundland, 1895–1965

John Phyne and Christine Knott

"These Poor Creatures... Like Ourselves": Sport-Hunting, Travel Narratives, and Representation in Late-Nineteenth / Early-Twentieth Century Newfoundland

Mick Stevens
Travel narratives, while complex and often contradictory, offer a tool for historians and cultural critics to explore the past and present of localized imperial peripheries and of the larger empires they are a part of. This author uses the travel writing of R.L. Dashwood, W.R. Kennedy, and J.G. Millais to discuss how European sport-hunting elites imagined Newfoundland and its inhabitants, and how they described them to readers throughout the empire. Through the exaggerations and fallacies of travel writers, who foregrounded their own ruggedness, manliness and self-sufficiency, are Indigenous guides, working-class settlers, and women who challenge established narratives in Newfoundland’s history, and without whom the travel writers could never have succeeded. The author investigates the depiction of these groups of Newfoundland residents in European travel writing to explore how their identities were shaped and reshaped in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth century, and calls for further re-examination of these groups as part of Newfoundland's historical narrative.

From Avalon to Alexandria: The Story of Commander Richard T. Prior

Bernard Kavanagh

Margot I. Duley. Extraordinary Passages: The Life and Times of Margaret Iris Duley, Newfoundland’s Pathbreaking Novelist

Sonja Boon

Elizabeth Yeoman. Exactly What I Said: Translating Words and Worlds

Martha MacDonald

Meghan Greeley. Jawbone

Amanda Marie Hull

Rhea Rollmann. A Queer History of Newfoundland

Emma Rossiter

Theatre Newfoundland Labrador: Gros Morne, 2024. Our Eliza by Megan Gail Coles

Mauricio Rodriguez Martinez

Rising Tide Theatre Festival: Trinity, 2024. A Tidy Package by Amy House and Bernardine Stapleton

Aley Waterman