Respectable
I promised more thoughts about thinking, but that’ll be coming next week. For now I have some news which is more exciting for me than it will be for anyone else: my first article has been accepted for publication by War In History. I’m almost a real historian now!
The article is titled “Horse Supply and the Development of the New Model Army, 1642-46″, a more succinct version of the main argument of my PhD thesis that the Earl of Essex’s army is more important than most people realise. If you want to know more than that, you’ll just have to wait and see. It’s likely to be another 18 months before the article appears in print, but being able to put a forthcoming article on my CV could make a lot of difference.
Comment by Ross Mahoney — 2:37 pm, 8 June 2007 [permanent link to this comment]
Gavin – Congratulations. It is a great feeling. Also sounds like a very interesting topic. I t is good to see some new refreshing views on the ECW coming to the fore. I had my first artcile accepted by the online Journal of the Centre for First World War Studies so I know it is a good feeling and a great CV builder.
Comment by Brett — 3:08 pm, 8 June 2007 [permanent link to this comment]
Brilliant! Congratulations.
Comment by Chris Williams — 5:44 pm, 8 June 2007 [permanent link to this comment]
Congrats: WiH is a good journal – You’ve appeared at the right point in the RAE cycle as well.
Comment by Gavin Robinson — 1:55 pm, 9 June 2007 [permanent link to this comment]
Thanks everyone. And to make things even better, the BBMF’s Lancaster has just flown over my garden very, very low! It’s almost as exciting as when they were filming Memphis Belle.
As well as looking good on my CV, I’m really pleased because WiH is my favourite journal. Is it sad to have a favourite academic journal?
Comment by redrob64 — 9:41 pm, 9 June 2007 [permanent link to this comment]
Congrats Gavin, I’ll be looking for the article. And yes it is a little sad. But that’s the thing isn’t it, if we didn’t have a favorite journal or two we’d either be non-academics by choice or mere careerists.