New articles in Zoomer Magazine and the Canadian Encyclopedia as well as recent media interviews in CBC News, TIME Magazine, USA Today and the Toronto Star about King Charles III, the Princess of Wales and the monarchy in 2024.
My feature article in the April/May 2024 issue of Zoomer Magazine is about both King Charles III's personal wealth and the monarchy's wider financial resources. I discuss the Duchy of Lancaster, the Sovereign Grant, royal palaces, crown jewels, the royal art collection and the secrecy surrounding royal wills.
My new fall 2024 at the University of Toronto School of Continuing Studies is The History of Scotland: From the Wars of Independence to Devolution. Learn in what ways, for centuries, Scotland and the Scots have had an outsized impact on the popular imagination, and political and cultural developments in Britain and the wider world.
New Canadian Encyclopedia Article: David Ross McCord
Inspired by a couple of visits to Montreal while delivering lecture series on cruise ships last year, my latest article in the Historica Canada Canadian Encyclopedia is about David Ross McCord, lawyer, alderman, military officer, collector and museum founder. McCord amassed a collection of roughly 15,000 artifacts related to Indigenous peoples and Canadian history and culture, which he presented to McGill University in 1919. The collection was made accessible to the public with the opening of the McCord National Museum in 1921 (now part of the McCord Stewart Museum in Montreal).
