One of the best things about being an historian is finding things you never intended to find. Such serendipitous discoveries lead to all kinds of fascinating insights and enjoyable moments of surprise. On this page I provide a listing of my serendipity blog posts to make them easier to scroll through. Enjoy!
- Blog: “Serendipity: Nineteenth-Century Climate Change Concerns,” gordonlheath.com (25 March 2023).
- Blog: "Serendipity: 'Hardly Anything Worse Could Take Place in Germany': A Glimpse of the Mistreatment of Citizens in Canadian CO Trials in the Second World War," gordonlheath.com (3 December 2022).
- Blog: "Serendipity: Like a Kid in a Candy Store (16 May 2022).
- Blog: “Serendipity: Notes in the Margins,” gordonlheath.com (10 March 2022).
- Blog: “Serendipity: Hockey and Missionaries in China,” gordonlheath.com (18 January 2022).
- Blog: “Serendipity: Prayer for Educational Institutions,” gordonlheath.com (10 December 2021).
- Blog: “Serendipity: Mein Kampf Book Review,” gordonlheath.com (10 December 2021).
- Blog: “Serendipity: First Nations Centaph,” gordonlheath.com (9 November 2021).
- Blog: “Serendipity: Mission to Mars,” gordonlheath.com (27 September 2021).
- Blog: “Serendipity: First Nations Truth and Reconciliation Documents,” gordonlheath.com (24 August 2021).
- Blog: “Serendipity: Undercover Newspapers,” gordonlheath.com (22 June 2021).
- Blog: “Serendipity (3 of 3): “Workers, Shirkers, and Jerkers in the Black Baptist Church,” gordonlheath.com (10 February 2021); cross-posted at Canadian Baptist Historical Society (22 February 2021).
- Blog: “Serendipity (2 of 3): “Black Methodist Deaconesses in Canada,” gordonlheath.com (8 February 2021).
- Blog: “Serendipity (1 of 3): Black Methodist Theological Education,” gordonlheath.com (7 February 2021).
- Blog: “Serendipity: Pentecost, Tongues, and the Conversion of New Atlantis,” gordonlheath.com (11 December 2020).
- Blog: “Serendipitous Discovery: Slave Days in Canada,” gordonlheath.com (27 August 2020).
- Blog: “Serendipity: An Ode to Germs,” gordonlheath.com (4 May 2020).
- Blog: “Serendipity: Most Noble Order of Crusaders,” gordonlheath.com (30 April 2020).
- Blog: “Serendipity: ‘Red Network in Ontario’: Watson Kirkconnell’s Web of Communist Organizations,” gordonlheath.com (26 April 2020).
- Blog: “Serendipity: The Numbers Contest,” gordonlheath.com (19 April 2020).
- Blog: “Serendipity: The Church and Mental Health (October1934),” gordonlheath.com (19 April 2020).