News, articles, an obituary, and an infographic:

Second World War POW records now online (one million records of servicemen/women and civilians).

The University of Chicago Press has made The History of Cartography (three volumes) available online (PDFs).

2,106 volunteers needed to index Freedman’s Bureau records by June 19, 2016.

Read a short article on the origins of Labour Day in Canada.

Learn about the beginning of the London Blitz on the UK National Archives Blog (it started Sept 7, 1940).

Check out this infographic: Daniel Feral’s History of Graffiti and Street Art.

This Globe and Mail article suggests that Queen Elizabeth II’s shrewd power of silence has contributed to her inscrutable allure over her long reign.

Intriguing on several levels: Crowdfunding is key to the ongoing excavation of an abbey that belonged to an (understudied) order called the Premonstratensians.

“Canada’s Complicated History of Refugee Reception” 

“How The Tenement Museum Uses Crime Scene Photos to Create its Exhibits”

“10,000 zines and counting: a library’s quest to save the history of fandom”

“A River Thames mudlarking find brings to life World War One soldier, Frederick Jury (1873-1932)”

“Imperial War Museum reveals plans for major transformation of Holocaust Exhibition”

“The Tale of the Forgotten Films: An Archival Rescue”

“Rewrite Stonehenge history, say archaeologists discovering ‘super-henge’ of new stones”

“Fashion companies have discovered their secret weapon: archives” 

 “Dr. J. Donald Millar, 81, Dies; Led C.D.C. Mission That Helped Eradicate Smallpox”

What historical tidbits caught your attention this week?