[posted by Gavin Robinson, 10:18 am, 24 April 2007]
There will be an early modern edition of Carnivalesque at Siris on 29th April. Send submissions (on any aspect of early modern history or culture, posted since 24th February) to branemrys[at]yahoo[dot]com or use the Carnivalesque submission form.
The next History Carnival will be hosted by Jeremy Boggs at Clioweb on 1st May. Send submissions (on any aspect of history, posted since 1st April) to jeremy[AT]clioweb[DOT]org or use the History Carnival submission form.
And the second Military History Carnival will be hosted at Victoria’s Cross? on 13th May. Send submissions to $gary$@$breathinghistory$.$com$ (but remove the dollar signs!) or use the Military History Carnival submission form.
News of all history related blog carnivals can be found at the History Carnivals Aggregator.
[posted by Gavin Robinson, 11:50 am, 17 April 2007]
I’d like to welcome The Wapenshaw to the military history blogosphere. Rich will be taking a critical look at late medieval and early modern warfare, and combining military history with his interest in philosophy. His first post debates some of the issues raised by my posts on cavalry charges and raises some more questions about the meaning of the word “shock”.
[posted by Gavin Robinson, 2:07 pm, 12 April 2007]
Welcome to the first ever Military History Carnival, starting an eclectic monthly round-up of the best and most interesting posts on everything related to wars and armed forces from the ancient world to the end of the 20th century. To get things started I’ve put together a huge selection of posts which demonstrates just how broad and inclusive military history can be, and how big the impact of war on history has been. It should be obvious that the military history blogosphere is in a very healthy state, and that many bloggers who wouldn’t consider themselves to belong to military history are writing on relevant topics.
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[posted by Gavin Robinson, 11:02 am, 6 April 2007]
Over at Victoria’s Cross, Gary Smailes posted a link to an article about the history of memorialisation from the Imperial War Museum. The article includes a photo of the memorial to the royalist officers Sir Charles Lucas and Sir George Lisle, who were executed on the orders of Sir Thomas Fairfax after the siege of Colchester in 1648. The article presents English Civil War memorials in terms of “deeds of heroism”, and by omitting the background to their execution perhaps unintentionally implies that Lucas and Lisle were victims or even martyrs. It’s worth pointing out that they were both executed for breaking their parole — they had previously surrendered to Parliament and promised not to fight again. Even so, this is quite an unusual case, and might be explained by the bitterness and frustration engendered by the siege of Colchester. Another interesting aspect which the article doesn’t mention is that there was a long running feud between the Lucas family and the borough of Colchester, which makes it ironic that the town now has a memorial to Sir Charles.
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[posted by Gavin Robinson, 1:48 pm, 5 April 2007]
The first Military History Carnival will be held here one week today (Thursday 12th April). I’ve had a good number of submissions, but there’s always room for more. You can submit your own posts or posts written by someone else — anything which falls within my broad definition of military history (but remember history stops on 1st January 2001!). So far the American Civil War isn’t over-represented so there’s still room for more ACW posts.
Use the Blog Carnival submission form or e-mail links to mhc1@4-lom.com
Meanwhile, I’ve finally resubmitted the article I was working on. It’s a relief to get it out of the way, and I’m reasonably confident that I’ve countered the reader’s criticisms adequately. Next week I’m going to a conference in Cambridge about authority in early-modern England, which is quite exciting as I haven’t been to a conference since 2001. I’m also working on a proposal for a conference about books in military history. I’m thinking along the lines of “Shock, Firepower, and Intertextuality”. Or maybe not…
[posted by Gavin Robinson, 5:55 pm, 3 April 2007]
I nearly called this post “the Great War on Flickr” but that could easily have been misunderstood…
It’s really about using the photo hosting site Flickr for photos and other documents from the First World War. I’ve uploaded some photos of my great-grandfather here as an experiment in digital history. Flickr is much more than just an image hosting service. I’ve been trying out some of its advanced features to see how useful they can be to digital historians, and what the limitations might be.
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