Strange name, good blog. Gavin Robinson is moving on from a PhD on horse supply in the English Civil War:
This is mostly a history blog, but I’m aiming to be eclectic. I’m likely to be posting works in progress; reflections on things I’ve been reading; extracts from and criticism of my PhD thesis; and random thoughts on history, historiography, culture, literature, information technology, and, of course, other people’s blogs. This is all part of my strategy to broaden my horizons.
He’s also weighed in on the discussion about when the Second World War started, with a post questioning the need for a single metanarrative of the war. His conclusion that ‘Since we can’t dispense with the Second World War but can’t define it very easily, we might just have to accept that it’s fuzzy around the edges’ seems reasonable to me. I like Gavin’s interest in theory, despite (or perhaps because of) the fact that I am resolutely empirical myself.
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23 October 2006 at 7:22 pm
Gavin Robinson
Thanks for the support. I’m still in the early stages of learning about theory, and I think having an empirical background gives me a good perspective on it. The title comes from a story by Franz Kafka.