The indefatigable David Silbey has posted Military History Carnival #26 at Cliopatria. The link which inspired this post’s title is at Military Times and concerns the fate of HMS Caroline, a light cruiser which was commissioned in 1914 and remains in service as a floating (albeit permanently moored) headquarters and training ship in Belfast. She […]
A couple of recent tweets from @zunguzungu (Aaron Bady): I had to include this disclaimer: “The Scout Association does not endorse Mr. Bady’s article or the use of air power against civilians” in my upcoming article. It’s a marvelous sentence. It is indeed. But what would B-P think?
Airminded has been archived by the British Library’s UK Web Archive, which ‘contains websites that publish research, that reflect the diversity of lives, interests and activities throughout the UK, and demonstrate web innovation’. It’s one of (at present) 487 blogs, 461 history websites, and 47 international relations, diplomacy and peace websites thus indexed. As you
I’ve never been to a Cliopatria Awards ceremony, but I imagine it is full of glitz and glamour, tuxedos and ball gowns. As the best history bloggers of the past year, the winners certainly deserve to be feted in this way. But instead of my applause all I can give them is a little recognition,
I blame society for our collective failure to suggest enough posts for Military History Carnival #26.
Nominations for the 2010 Cliopatria Awards for history blogging are open until the end of November. As usual there are six categories: Best Group Blog, Best Individual Blog, Best New Blog, Best Post, Best Series of Posts, and Best Writer. I think it’s been a bumper crop this year as far as number of nominations
7 October was not the end of the Blitz or even of the Battle of Britain, but it is the end of my post-blogging of 1940, at least for now. The main reason for this is because I’m running out of primary sources, especially the Daily Mail. But as I think I’ve shown, in the
Tomorrow I’ll start post-blogging 1940. My starting point will be 25 August 1940 (the day after the first bombs fell on central London, one of the starting points of the Blitz) and will take it through to some point in October. As usual, I’ll be presenting the view from the press, using daily newspapers like
Military History Carnival #25 is now up at The Edge of the American West. My favourite selection this time around is from Beachcombing’s Bizarre History Blog and concerns the question of the last cavalry charge in history. As an Australian, I am legally obliged (I think it’s in the Constitution, somewhere near the back) to
I’ve put the series of posts I did a couple of years ago on the Sudeten crisis into one big PDF file called, rather grandiosely, Post-blogging the Sudeten Crisis: The British Press, August-October 1938 (147 pages, 5.6 Mb). It’s freely available for download under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License. It’s very bloggy in
