By Sean Graham
This week, I’m joined by Jamie Jelinski, writer of Needle Work: A Historical past of Business Tatooing in Canada. We discuss Jamie’s curiosity within the historical past of tattoos, the connection to artwork historical past, and the beginnings of tattoos as an business in Canada. We then talk about questions over regulation and the criminalization of tattooing earlier than chatting about a few of the distinctive case research within the e book.
Historic Headline of the Week
Steven Dyer, “Tattoos within the office, how has society’s notion of ink modified?” CTV Information, September 21, 2024.
Sean Graham is a cultural historian, an Adjunct Professor at Carleton College, and a contributing editor with Activehistory.ca
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