Events

Summer Seminar Series

Thursday, August 14th - 7:30pm

$10.00 per person

Rocky's Place, Trinity, NL

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Artist, Rebel, Witness: The Hidden History of Shanawdihit.

Julia Laite

Julia Laite is Professor of History at Birkbeck, University of London and a fellow of the Royal Historical Society. Her most recent book The Disappearance of Lydia Harvey (2021) won the Golden Dagger for Non-Fiction from the British Crime Writer’s Association. Her new book project, A Woman at the End of the World, will tell the life story of the Beothuk woman Shanawdithit, the dilletante ethnographer William Eppes Cormack, and her own Newfoundland ancestors.