Canadian History Podcasts

Abstract

Podcasting has taken off among Canadian academics, particularly during the remote learning required by the COVID-19 pandemic, both as a tool of research dissemination and of classroom instruction. I am fortunate to collaborate with two experts in digital history: Kent Davies and Kimberley Moore of the University of Winnipeg's Oral History Centre.' Some years ago, when I was preparing a SSHRC Insight Grant application on our behalf, Kent suggested a podcast as one of our research outcomes. Preserves is our attempt to create a listenable scholarly podcast s meticulously researched and cited as any academic literature and with a storytelling format that hopefully is enjoyable for a wide audience. As Moore describes us, we are oral historians who have thought incessantly about transmission of knowledge through storytelling, fanatical podcast listeners, with the added bonus of one of us having a background in broadcasting/radio production.