A bit earlier than usual, the winners of the 2008 Cliopatria Awards for the best history blogging of the past year have been announced. They are The Edge of the American West (best group blog), Northwest History (best individual blog), Wynken de Worde (best new blog), Tenured Radical (best post), Walking the Berkshires (best series […]
I’ve had a few inbound links from forums in the last few days, including this one. It’s nice to be linked to, but in this case one of the participants, kyt, has a bit of a rant about my snobbishness: The blogger does seem to have a certain, for want of a better word, snobbishness.
The 19th Military History Carnival has been posted at Military History and Warfare. For my pick from this edition I can’t go past the first entry, on the interwar RAF at Thoughts on Military History. It’s part of the first chapter of his thesis, and it’s a very good overview of the financial and operational
… is who to nominate for the 2008 Cliopatria Awards for the best history blogging of the year. (Why, what did you think I meant?) There are six categories: best group blog, best individual blog, best new blog, best post, best series of posts, and best writer. Nominations close at the end of November and
No, I’m not heading for Venus, nor am I travelling back in time in the USS Nimitz. But it is the final countdown nonetheless. I’m in the last few months of my PhD, and plan to submit it in late February 2009, just under four months away. I’m on track for that, I think —
XVIII Military History Carnival is up at Chronologi Cogitationes. This month I’m picking a post from a new blog, Wacht Am Tyne, on the centenary of the first flight (powered, controlled, heavier-than-air) in Britain, which was achieved by Samuel Franklin Cody on 16 October 1908. (I had a photo of British Army Aeroplane No. 1a
LaTeX for Humans is a promising new blog, aimed at humanities-types who want to write in LaTeX, rather than Word or something equally maladapted. Since it’s a subject which I’ve written on several times before, and since switching is not easy, despite the advantages (sorry Sarah!), I’m glad to see a dedicated resource on the
So the Sudeten crisis experiment has ended. How useful has it been? I think it’s been a very different view of the crisis. It’s small-scale, not big-picture; confused, not lucid; bottom-up, not top-down (well, sorta: it could be more bottom-up). Most accounts that I’ve read are from the diplomatic-political-military point of view: Chamberlain’s decision to
This month is when I should be doing another of my state of the military historioblogosphere posts, but obviously I’m not. Mostly this is because I don’t have time to gather the data, due to all the Sudeten post-blogging I’ve been doing lately. But also, once more there’s only been a relatively modest growth in
The 17th Military History Blog Carnival has been posted at Military History and Warfare. (It was posted nearly a week ago, but I’ve been busy …) The most interesting post for me this week is on the Maginot Line, by the carnival host. He points out that, though much-maligned, the Maginot Line did its job:
