The Broadside and the History Carnival
The History Carnival is a long-running blog carnival, a monthly showcase of blogging about history. The Broadside was first established in 2010 as an adjunct to the History Carnival, using tools that made it possible to gather quickly and easily some of the wealth of links to history blogging and history-related news shared by historians on Twitter.
This site is an expansion of that concept. It will continue to post the news updates from the original Broadside history news feed. But it adds a range of new history feeds, and it’s also intended as a larger resource for historians who might be thinking about using Twitter (and hopefully, in the future, other microblogging services) for networking and sharing links and ideas, or would like new ideas to extend their existing use of the service.
The History News Feeds
There are two sets of feeds:
The Broadsides are curated by the History Carnival and sourced from the original Broadside feed, provided by Tweeted Times, which ranks and aggregates the most popular links from the people the @historycarnival account follows. The raw TT feed is very heterogeneous and only an edited selection is published here: blogging about historical topics, the practice of research, historical sources (including images and artefacts), news and discussions about digitisation/digital history, and related fields such as archaeology, museums and archives; CFPs and news about events; and some relevant stories from news sites. It’s updated about three times a week.
The Bulletins are similarly sourced from Tweeted Times feeds. However, they differ in that they are based on Twitter search queries, and they are entirely automated. They are checked for updates several times a day. There are currently four feed categories, and new feeds will be added in due course. As this is entirely automated and there is no editing process, the content of the Bulletins is likely to be highly varied in its nature and quality. However, if you see anything very offensive or inappropriate, please contact the History Carnival and it may be removed.
Resources Pages
The resources pages are primarily designed to provide a resource to introduce readers to the ways in which historians are using Twitter to share news and resources, hold discussions, ask questions and give advice, although they’ll hopefully give existing Twitter users some new ideas as well!
