Water and the Modern Prairies: Histories of Irrigation and Water Management

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Historicizing Adaptation Blog Series

“Water and the Modern Prairies” is a historical research project aimed at large-scale, publicly-funded irrigation projects in Saskatchewan and Alberta. The project establishes and evaluates the outcomes of mid-20th century prairie irrigation, with particular attention to the varied and uneven consequences of these efforts. Read more…

A coloured photo of eight villagers wearing Romanian folk costume with sunflowers in the background

Adapting to the End of the Forest Commons in the 19th Century Kingdom of Hungary

Róbert Balogh March 13, 2025

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A cropped photograph of a medieval manuscript, with the pores of the vellum visible in some places, along with the gentle unevenness of the folio surface. Above the first line and the decorative capital (a gorgeous G with a little heart, a leaf perhaps, holding a diamond), a title is rubricated: ‘Llyma dryded geinc or mabinogi’. Below this is 12 lines of middle Welsh text in a regular hand with some gothic elements are written in black ink, with a splash of rubrication on the first letter of each sentence. In the bottom left of the image we can see an early modern hand making an annotation.

Of Mice and Magic: Imagining Historic Responses to Environmental Change in High-Medieval Wales

Gwenffrewi J. Morgan March 6, 2025

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An aerial image showing long and narrow agricultural fields.

Introducing the “Historicizing Adaptation” Blog Series

Shannon Stunden Bower February 27, 2025

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Call for Submissions: Historicizing Adaptation

Shannon Stunden Bower October 16, 2024

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The feature image is a composite aerial image showing Lake Diefenbaker, a reservoir along the South Saskatchewan River in Saskatchewan. The photo was provided by Information Services Corporation, Saskatchewan.