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graecomuse.wordpress.com

Keep an eye on this page for contributions to other sites, upcoming posts, conference and publication work, lectures and university news. Ancient History Encyclopedia New Peer-Reviewed Entries by G…

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In 1774, the first Josiah Wedgwood wrote: ‘I have often wish’d I had saved a single specimen of all the new articles I have made, and would now give 20 times the original value for such a collection. For 10 years past I have omitted doing this, because I did not begin it ten years sooner. I am now, from thinking, and talking a little more upon this subject… resolv’d to make a beginning.’

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historicnews.blogspot.com - Peter L Twohig

Loretta Hannigan, aged 19, accused Solomon Mann of "having caused her ruin" and also accused Dr Henry Pettingill of "having performed a criminal operation upon her." Ms Hannigan subsequently died, although not of criminal malpractice, according to the court. But this did not satisfy David Hannigan, who vowed vengeance. Two months later, Hannigan shot Mann twice, intending to kill him. The assailant was "crazed with anger and range" and he escaped the custody of a police officer but was brought …  »

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history.ac.uk

The Institute of Historical Research (IHR) provides resources for historians, including a major open access library, digital projects, seminars and lectures, conferences, books and journals,podcasts and Ma/PhD study and research training.

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talks.cam.ac.uk

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Download past episodes or subscribe to future episodes for free from The Frontier Historian by Darren R. Reid on the iTunes Store.

14 May 2012 Share:

stillwaterhistorians.com - Katherine O’Flaherty

http://www.historians.org/Perspectives/ issues/2012/1202/images/Cronon-pre-Gen.Mtg.jpg When I got home today the latest issue of Perspectives on History, the newsmagazine of the American Historical Association (AHA) was shoved into my mailbox along with a Tim Hortons coupon flyer and a Hannaford grocery store circular.  I almost didn’t notice Perspectives hiding amongst the junk mail.  Ever since Bill Cronon became president of AHA I have taken to reading the “From the President” section, somet…  »

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danskinwithhistory.wordpress.com - DanskinWithHistory

Abstract: This post will aim to solve all of your conferencing woes, and simultaneously all bad things in the world. It will do so with great effectiveness, so effective in fact that you won’t even need to read the words; these will be magic non-reading words that leap into your brain. World starvation will be obliterated on completion of reading this post; peace will be restored; and everyone who reads this will pass their PhD viva with no corrections. Ultimately this post will solve all world  »

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graecomuse.wordpress.com

There are many reasons why one may study ancient Greek and Koine Greek; as a student of the classics, archaeology, new testament studies, pure interest, but when we learn a new language we are ofte…

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graecomuse.wordpress.com - GraecoMuse

Hello Everyone, this post is going to be a little different from the informative posts I usually write because I am excited! Not long now and I am off on my next archaeological dig, this time to Turkey!!! Friends keep telling me to blog as I go so I guess I will, so welcome to [...]

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history.ac.uk

The Institute of Historical Research (IHR) provides resources for historians, including a major open access library, digital projects, seminars and lectures, conferences, books and journals,podcasts and Ma/PhD study and research training.

14 May 2012 Share:

turniprailswaitingroom.blogspot.com

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us-intellectual-history.blogspot.com - L.D. Burnett

As I mentioned before, I am in the process of putting together my reading lists for qualifying exams.  My three fields are American Intellectual and Cultural History, American Literature, and Transatlantic History in the Long Nineteenth Century.  I am still working on my lists for the latter two fields, but my reading list for U.S. intellectual/cultural history is settled.  I thought it might be helpful for our blog readers who may be planning a field in U.S. intellectual history to see what my  »

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Welcome to AHA Today, a blog focused on the latest happenings in the broad discipline of history and the professional practice of the craft that draws on the staff, research, and activities of the American Historical Association.

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nickelinthemachine.com - nickelinthemachine

Covent Garden around 1970. Four years before its move to Nine Elms in Vauxhall The London premiere for the film of My Fair Lady took place at the Warner cinema in Leicester Square on 21 January 1965. Of course it couldn’t have been anything less than a glamorous occasion. Audrey Hepburn, Cecil Beaton, Rex Harrison, who had come with Vivien Leigh, and even Jack Warner himself attended the show. The cinema was only a few hundred yards from Covent Garden, a location featured in the film (albeit a …  »

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carolineshenton.co.uk - CarolineShenton

By the early 1830s, many people thought that Parliament should move away from Westminster to the West End.  Part of the reason was that John Nash’s development of  Regent Street had shifted the fashionable focus of the City north-west.  One of the trendy delights in the former Marylebone Fields was the new Zoological Gardens at Regent’s Park.  Until 1832, the royal [...]

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myblogs.informa.com - Lucinda Matthews-Jones

My Research Blog draws together reflections, reviews and discussion relating to my research on travel and place in mid-19th century literature. I write about recent reading, events and talks I’ve attended, and ideas that I’ve been working on in my research, as well as reflecting on contemporary cultural news and events relating to the Victorian period – the Dickens bicentenary has provided a lot of material this year, but I also write about film adaptations, radio and tv series, and other insta…  »

11 May 2012 Share:

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independent.co.uk

Young history academics are too eager to convert their research into books that have only a slim chance of success in an increasingly crowded market, according to the chief judge of a leading history writing prize.

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michaeljkramer.net - Michael Kramer

Slideshow: WordPress for the Humanities: Developing a Digital History Course Event: Come join us in the Northwestern University Library next Wednesday, for an SRTS presentation by Dr. Michael Kramer, Josh Honn and Andrea Gaither: WordPress for the Humanities: Developing a Digital History Course Michael Kramer (Lecturer, History & American Studies), Josh Honn (Librarian, Center for Scholarly Communication & Digital Curation), Andrea Gaither (Digital Media Specialist, NUIT Academic & Research Tec…  »

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stillwaterhistorians.com - Rob Gee

I’m here in St. John, New Brunswick where the ACS conference packed up and left town a few days back, and I’m beginning to feel a bit like the guy left behind by the wagon train.  I’ve stayed behind to do a bit of research after a most compelling visit last Friday with Randy Miller at the New Brunswick Museum archives–which is deserving of a whole blog post unto itself!  Since the conference cleared out my debit card has stopped working and I came down with a cold.  Has anybody else noticed that  »

11 May 2012 Share:

archives.queensu.ca

It is with great pleasure that Queen’s University Archives wishes to announce the establishment of the Geraldine Grace and Maurice Alvin McWatters Visiting Fellowship. As the result of the generosity of their daughter, Dr. Cheryl S. McWatters, a long time friend and supporter of the Archives, and her husband, John MacDiarmid, an endowment has been set up in honour of her parents.

11 May 2012 Share:

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11 May 2012 Share:

telegraph.co.uk - Peter Stanford

TV historians do not dumb down their subject, says Peter Stanford.

11 May 2012 Share:

239days.com

In Cleveland, ‘Abdu’l-Bahá confronts the fear of racial amalgamation that underlies the prejudice between black and white.

10 May 2012 Share:

amazon.com

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fvu.co.uk

Film and Video Umbrella commissions, curates and produces film, video and other moving-image works by artists which are presented in collaboration with galleries and other cultural partners across the UK.

9 May 2012 Share:

blog.historians.org

Welcome to AHA Today, a blog focused on the latest happenings in the broad discipline of history and the professional practice of the craft that draws on the staff, research, and activities of the American Historical Association.

9 May 2012 Share:

twitter.com

New podcast banner – new episode coming tomorrow! #twitterstorians #frontier #history http://t.co/026WdEwy

9 May 2012 Share:

thenextweb.com - Drew Olanoff

You can’t make this stuff up, folks. Intrepid reporter (or just nosey historian) Nate St. Pierre did some digging in the grand old town of Springfield, IL where he took a tour of the Lincoln Museum and stumbled onto the “Springfield Gazette”, which was a paper entirely about Abraham Lincoln: The whole Springfield Gazette was one sheet of paper, and it was all about Lincoln. Only him. Other people only came into the document in conjunction with how he experienced life at that moment. If you look…  »

9 May 2012 Share:

quora.com

Answer 1 of 5: The Japanese in World War 2. As Andy Warwick above mentioned, but I’ll focus on the CBI (China-India Burma) theatre rather than the Pacific. …

9 May 2012 Share:

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thingsc18th.wordpress.com - thingsc18th

The final seminar of the Lent Term series, entitled “Fragonard’s Colour Box and Houdon’s modeling stand: Prospecting for a history of the everyday in art”, was presented jointly by Dr. Katie Scott of the Courtauld Institute and Dr. Hannah Williams of St. John’s college, Oxford. They are presently collaborating on a research project that investigates the personal possessions of artists working in 18th century France. We first heard from Dr. Katie Scott, who introduced the project, which is an et…  »

9 May 2012 Share:

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turniprailswaitingroom.blogspot.com

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historicnews.blogspot.com - Peter L Twohig

I am not sure whether a medicine for "diarrhoea, dysentery, summer complaints, cholera morbus, cholera infantum, etc."should be advertised at "The Busy Corner." Source: Salt Lake City Tribune 28 July 1907.

7 May 2012 Share:

twitter.com

So #twitterstorians, do we think this is real or fake? #vampireslayinginharrogate http://t.co/qYDKJpD6

7 May 2012 Share:

www1.aston.ac.uk

Decision-making and Decision-makers – Business history has frequently focused on the role of strategy and decision-makers. Conversely, the potential to make decisions is often limited, and constrained by economic, political and social factors.

7 May 2012 Share:

facebook.com

Facebook is a social utility that connects people with friends and others who work, study and live around them. People use Facebook to keep up with friends, upload an unlimited number of photos, post links and videos, and learn more about the people they meet.

7 May 2012 Share:

graecomuse.wordpress.com

The Bible’s Buried Secrets [BBC] Stavrakopoulou visits key archaeological excavations where ground-breaking finds are being unearthed, and examines evidence for and against the Biblical accou…

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spr.ac.uk

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cityoflondon.gov.uk

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nytimes.com - By TIMOTHY SNYDER

How food contributed to World War II: its origins, its outcome and its aftermath.

7 May 2012 Share:

turniprail.blogspot.com

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the-history-lab.blogspot.co.uk

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history.qmul.ac.uk

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theatlantic.com

The vivacious Edwardian beauty wrote Hollywood screenplays, modeled for soft drink companies, and flew her own airplane over the English Channel.

7 May 2012 Share:

historyhub.ie

Welcome to historyhub.ie – an online forum for historians to contribute to current policy debates and a media hub to access the latest in academic research via several podcast series. The site is funded by UCD School of History & Archives/Scoil na Staire agus na Cartlannaíochta UCD.

6 May 2012 Share:

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gradhacker.org - GradHacker

John Garrison Marks is a PhD graduate student in History at Rice University.  His dissertation compares the experiences of free people of color in two port cities of the Americas during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Find him on Twitter @johngmarks. About a month ago, I got really lucky.  My school sent out an e-mail notifying me that the following week would be “Fulbright Week,” and that they would be offering a series of panels to bring me up to speed and prepare me for the applicat…  »

5 May 2012 Share:

bbc.co.uk

More than 120 short films offering "snapshots of the UK’s cultural, sporting, industrial and political heritage" have been put online.

5 May 2012 Share:

historycouncilnsw.org.au

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savelibraryarchives.ca

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philipvickersfithian.com - John Fea

From the New York Times: For centuries, the Tidewater coast of North Carolina has held one of early America’s oldest secrets: the fate of more than 100 English colonists who vanished from their island outpost in the late 1500s.  Theories abound about what happened to the so-called Lost Colony, ranging from sober scholarship to science fiction. Some historians believe that the colonists might have been absorbed into American Indian tribes. Other explanations point to darker fates, like disease,  »

5 May 2012 Share:

huntington.org

5 May 2012 Share:

history.ac.uk

The Institute of Historical Research (IHR) provides resources for historians, including a major open access library, digital projects, seminars and lectures, conferences, books and journals,podcasts and Ma/PhD study and research training.

5 May 2012 Share:

retina.smithsonianmag.com

The Best Song Named After a Historical Figure? Ed note: RIP Adam Yauch, aka MCA of the Beastie Boys.

5 May 2012 Share:

mun.ca

5 May 2012 Share:

ecisconference2012.wordpress.com - ecisconference2012

Just a brief reminder to all postgraduate students planning to attend and deliver papers at this year’s ECIS conference: applications for postgraduate bursaries to be used towards registration and accommodation costs are due TODAY. For those who have not already applied, please email your name, institutional affiliation, a short description of your research, and a brief statement of how attendance at this conference will further your research goals to the conference organizer (cmorin AT tcd DOT…  »

5 May 2012 Share:

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radicalmanchester.wordpress.com

Many places in Britain have been commemorated in verse – think of Tintern Abbey (Wordsworth), or Wenlock Edge (Housman), or Adlestrop railway station (Edward Thomas), or Little Gidding (TS Eliot)…

5 May 2012 Share:

nybooks.com

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history.ac.uk

Anglo-Saxon historians are in an enviable position when it comes to electronic resources. We already have a host of helpful websites at our fingertips: the Electronic Sawyer (http://www.esawyer.org.uk/), Kemble (http://www.kemble.asnc.cam.ac.uk/),

5 May 2012 Share:

cha-shc.ca

The CHA represents the interests of historians and the heritage community to government, archives, granting and other agencies; organizes conferences; publishes the best of Canadian historical scholarship; and awards a range of prizes to historians who have produced exceptional work.

5 May 2012 Share:

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turniprailswaitingroom.blogspot.com - David Turner

I write this from inside The National Archives. Gosh, I love it here. Anyway, I have decided to take a day to work here on some things that simply interest me. As many of you are aware, I have a fervent interest in rule books. Currently in front on me is the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway’s 1848 ‘Regulations to be observed by the company’s servants employed in the Executive Department.’ I could have chosen a vast number of instructions to quote, but I chose those pertaining to gate-ke…  »

5 May 2012 Share:

bbc.co.uk

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twitter.com

Don’t forget, Meet the Historian: John Arnold at HistoryLab tonight. All welcome. #twitterstorians http://t.co/tJTaPYrj

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id.kent.ac.uk

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foreignpolicy.com

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barnesandnoble.com

Available in: NOOK Book (eBook), Hardcover. Conventional wisdom holds that 9/11 sounded the death knell for presidential accountability. In fact, the opposite is true. The novel powers that our post-9/11 commanders in chief assumed—endles

3 May 2012 Share:

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neverfeltbetter.wordpress.com - HandsofBlue

As the 14th century drew to a close, a century that had seen English control over Ireland fluctuate wildly, gradually decline, then stabilise in the core region in the Pale and partly around it, two great figures of the two islands would clash in two brief wars that illustrated the weakness of the Anglo-Normans position, and the power that events in Ireland had to influence events in England. In 1394, the 27 year old Richard II was King of England. Having succeeded his grandfather Edward at age…  »

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andrewdevenney.net - Andrew D Devenney

1870 Atlas Map of Ireland and Scotland by Samuel A. Mitchell. (This essay has been cross-posted at Irish Diplomatic History.) On Tuesday, 18 September 1962, a Scottish nationalist politician named William Wolfe and an Irish government diplomat and civil servant named Con Cremin met in Dublin, Ireland, for a late dinner. Having never previously met, they talked into the evening about recent European politics and economics, presumably ate some food, and agreed to talk again on Friday the 21st for…  »

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theatlantic.com - Adam Arenson

What a memorial for an amputated limb can teach our society about wounded veterans Stonewall Jackson’s left arm is buried, with its own tombstone, in a family graveyard near the Virginia battlefield where he was mortally wounded. (U.S. Park Service) On this week in 1863, the celebrated Confederate General Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson was returning from a nighttime reconnaissance ride near Chancellorsville, Virginia, when he was mistakenly shot by his own camp’s picket guards. On May 2, Jackson’s  »

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1 May 2012 Share:

notevenpast.org

30 April 2012 Share:

newberry.org

Independent research library with a focus on the humanities is privately funded, but free and open to the public.

30 April 2012 Share:

britishscholar.org - ageller

Allegra Geller, Op-Ed Columnist April 2012 Frankenstein. What a spine-tingling, delightfully scary word! It immediately brings to mind a host of images; a mad scientist, a horrifying reanimated corpse, a gigantic lumbering green man-monster.  With the exception of perhaps Dracula, no other literary monster has had such massive appeal and influence on books, film and television. Written when Mary Shelley was only eighteen, Frankenstein: or, The Modern Prometheus is often lauded as the first scie…  »

30 April 2012 Share:

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theibtaurisblog.com - theibtaurisblog

Katrina Gulliver. The following article is an edited extract from Katrina Gulliver’s new book, Modern Women in China and Japan: Gender, Feminism and Global Modernity Between the Wars. Lilian May Miller was born in Japan in 1895, the daughter of … Continue reading →

30 April 2012 Share:

rhizophora.net - Jeffery K. Johnson

Tweet For historians, a lot of the debate about digital humanities hinges on the tension between our work as scholarship and our work as content in an age when we have new ways of thinking and representing the past. We are hitched to a model of linear publishing that funnels scholarship through shaping by lineage, vetting by guild, and blessing by imprint. Naked under these holy gerunds, though, scholarship is a message, a condensed block of meaning sent forth into the wide world looking for ey…  »

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graecomuse.wordpress.com - GraecoMuse

Cuneiform has always interested me. It is difficult and subject to a huge amount of interpretation and choice. So let me set it out for you so that you can understand better the complexity of Cuneiform. One of the first … Continue reading →

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