Investigations of a Dog

The February edition of the Military History Carnival is now up at Airminded. If you’d like to host a future edition, please contact the Battlefield Biker.

The next edition of the Military History Carnival will be hosted by Brett Holman at Airminded on 15 February. Please send him suggestions for the best military history blogging since 17 January, either by email (bholman at airminded dot org), by web (here or here) or by twitter (@Airminded or tagged #mhc21).

After a long break, the next Military History Carnival will be at Edge of the American West on 17 January. You can submit posts using the submission form. If you’d like to host a future edition, pleace contact TJ at Battlefield Biker.

The March edition of the Military History Carnival is now up at the American Presidents Blog. Also the carnival has a  new submission form, so don’t use the old one.

I’m finally back to blogging after a few months off. The risk of RSI is one drawback of relying on computers so much, but I’ve got it under control now. I’m still not going to risk playing computer games or musical intruments for a while though, and definitely no more woodcutting, which is what probably did for me. This post is a quick roundup of some things that happened while I was away.

First of all, the Military History Carnival always needs more hosts. Although it’s not my responsibility any more I’d like to see it continue, so if you can help please contact TJ at tj$linzy$@$gmail$.$com (remove the dollar signs)..

I’ve deactivated my Facebook account as I was finding the whole thing too annoying. I’ve opened an account at LinkedIn but I’m not sure if I’m going to use it. It seems very much aimed at The Businessman In His Suit And Tie. Does anyone use it, and is it any use? I’d like to see a social networking site specifically designed for academics. Maybe with facilities to self-archive our publications.

The Great War Archive (which I posted about here) opened on time in November, and looks really good. They’re also continuing to collect submissions through a Flickr group. Reviews in History have published a review by Esther MacCallum-Stewart and a response by Stuart Lee. This project gives us proof that there are lots of interesting documents in private hands and that at least some people are willing to share them on the web if given the chance. Although 6,500 documents sounds like a lot I suspect it’s a tiny fraction of what’s still out there.

The 1911 census has been released early (but some counties aren’t available yet). Although access is relatively expensive you get very good quality colour photos of the original documents: much better than the 1901 census.

EThOS, the British Library’s new online thesis sevice, is now in public beta. I’ll probably post about it in more detail later in the week, but for now I’ll just say that I’m very impressed.

I am pleased to announce that TJ Linzy of Battlefield Biker is taking over the running of the Military History Carnival until the end of 2009. Please give him all the support you can. Without hosts and submissions there can be no carnival. You can contact him at tj$linzy$@$gmail$.$com (remove the dollar signs). The transfer is still in progress but things should be running soon.

The December edition of the Military History Carnival is now up at Military History and Warfare. There will be another edition in January if anyone volunteers to host.

The December edition of the Military History Carnival will be hosted by Alex Clark at History of Warfare on 14th December. You can e-mail submissions to alexanderclark999 [at] gmail [dot] com or use the submission form.

I’m taking a break from blogging because I probably have RSI.  I’m experimenting with voice recognition software but I need to use the computer as little as possible until I recover.

As for the Military History Carnival, I probably have a host for December but I’m not sure what will happen after that.  I might want to stop doing it. Maybe someone else will want to take over, but as it’s so difficult to get hosts and submissions this might be the time to let it die.

There’s a new early-modern edition of Carnivalesque up at Mercurius Politcus. Nick has done a fantastic job of pastiching 17th century presbyterian bigot Thomas Edwards.

The next Carnivalesque will be an ancient/medieval edition  at The Cranky Professor in November. You can submit posts using the ancient/medieval nomination form.