http://www.investigations.4-lom.com Failing better at understanding the past Fri, 16 May 2008 07:17:24 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en This is the 14th Military History Carnival, with a special theme of Contested Boundaries. Today is also the day that Bloggers Unite encourages bloggers to write about human rights (hat tip: Mark Stoneman). I might post something on that theme later today if I have time (and I probably won't ... http://www.investigations.4-lom.com/2008/05/15/14th-military-history-carnival/ While trawling (not trolling) for more posts that I can include in the next MHC, I found something interesting via Muhlberger's Early History: The Soldier in Later Medieval England is a major research project directed by Anne Curry (who was my personal tutor when I was an undergraduate at Reading). They ... http://www.investigations.4-lom.com/2008/05/14/medieval-soldier-database/ The 14th Military History Carnival will be here next week on Thursday 15th May. We still need more submissions: you can submit your own posts or someone else's, relating to the Contested Boundaries theme or anything else within MHC's usual remit. Please e-mail submissions to fallon.young@4-lom.com or use the the ... http://www.investigations.4-lom.com/2008/05/09/more-mhc-submissions-needed/ Last week I read: Michael Braddick, God's Fury, England's Fire (Allen Lane, February 2008). Ian Gentles, The English Revolution and the Wars in the Three Kingdoms, 1638-1652 (Longman, March 2007). Both are very good books. And the Dauphin's horse "is a most absolute and excellent horse". That is, they're as good as books ... http://www.investigations.4-lom.com/2008/05/06/synth-pop-history/ Yesterday Bill Turkel announced that The Programming Historian is now available. This is a book, but not as we know it. It's published in the form of a website and is completely free to access. As the name suggests, it's an introduction to computer programming aimed specifically at historians. The ... http://www.investigations.4-lom.com/2008/05/05/the-programming-historian/ Via Archaeozoology, an interesting but difficult to spell blog about about the archaeology of non-human animals, I discovered another interesting archaeology blog. Middle Savagery is written by Colleen Morgan, a PhD student at UC Berkeley. She's doing lots of innovative things with Flickr, YouTube, Facebook and Second Life (don't let ... http://www.investigations.4-lom.com/2008/05/04/archaeology-and-technology/ The next edition of the Military History Carnival will be here at Investigations of a Dog on Thursday 15th May. As always we need as many submissions as possible. To make it more interesting I've decided to give this edition a special theme: Contested Boundaries. This can cover disputed territories and ... http://www.investigations.4-lom.com/2008/04/28/submissions-needed-for-military-history-carnival/ I've just successfully upgraded to Wordpress 2.5.1. You won't notice much difference at the front end, but the admin area is much nicer than the 2.2 version I was using before. The best thing is that the editor doesn't screw up HTML code any more which makes it easier to ... http://www.investigations.4-lom.com/2008/04/27/all-my-little-words/ When I posted about Brian Manning’s The Far Left in the English Revolution I wondered whether it was worth investigating any of his other works. Mercurius Politicus said it was, so I got a copy of The English People and the English Revolution out of the library. It shouldn't be ... http://www.investigations.4-lom.com/2008/04/25/more-thoughts-on-brian-manning/ Mercurius Politicus linked to Gilbert Mabbott, a new blog about print culture in the English Civil Wars and Interregnum. From this blog I discovered that Calendar of State Papers Domestic is starting to appear on Google Books. There's a James I volume available with full access. I'm hoping that the ... http://www.investigations.4-lom.com/2008/04/23/new-blog-and-cspd-online/