Shirley Tillotson is professor emeritus in History at Dalhousie University and Inglis Professor at the University of King’s College. Primarily a historian of twentieth century Canada, her research interests over the years have concerned changes in relations between state and society. In retirement, she has been active in producing Canadian history content on social media, particularly Twitter and Bluesky. She has also participated in two projects concerning the relationship of two Nova Scotia universities to slavery and race in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth-century.