Tri-University Graduate Program in History

Grant Schreiber successfully defended his dissertation in January this year at the History Department, University of Guelph.

His dissertation, “‘For ye haue the poore alwaies with you’: Experiments in Charity in post-Reformation Oxford and Aberdeen, 1560-1640,” challenges prevailing national narratives about the development of poor relief schemes in the aftermath of the religious changes of the sixteenth century in England and Scotland. Using civil, religious, and financial records, it compares experimentation with new forms of charity in the cities of Oxford and Aberdeen in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. The dissertation analyzes changes in institutional charity, regularized relief, discipline and correction, and times of crisis in the two cities and concludes that the level of success in each runs counter to traditional historiography, underscoring the need to understand early modern poor relief in its local social, political, and economic contexts.

We caught up with him to learn more. https://buff.ly/Ee0wVq0

Congratulations Dr. Schreiber 🎉

Join the Tri-U's Gillian Wagenaar, PhD candidate, University of Waterloo student, for the and military lecture: "From Sherbrooke with Love: Illicit Correspondence, Civilian Internment, and Canada in the Second World War." Lecture held at Guelph Museum, Thursday, March 19, 7:00 pm. Gillian researches as part of . https://buff.ly/Pl6nQEa