Because it’s already December in Australia, and it’s not all about the war cricket, you know: the History Carnival is up at Barista. It looks great!
The next History Carnival, and the last one of 2006, will be hosted by Scott Eric Kaufman at Acephalous on 15 December. (Submissions here.)
Nominations for The Cliopatria Awardswill be closing very soon! If you haven’t nominated your pick of the year’s best history blogging, or if your favourites (including your own work) haven’t yet been nominated by anyone else, here are the six categories:
Best Group Blog
Best Individual Blog
Best New Blog
Best Post
Best Series of Posts
Best Writer
The next History Carnival will be hosted on 1 December by David Tiley at Barista.
Email nominations for recently published posts about history (a historical topic, reviews of books or resources, reflections on teaching or researching history) to tiley[at]internode[.]on[.]net], or use the submission form provided by Blog Carnival. Please make sure you provide at least the URL of any nominated posts!
The History Carnival is not just for academics and entries don’t have to be heavyweight scholarship, but they must uphold basic standards of factual accuracy. If you have any further questions about the criteria for inclusion, check out the Carnival homepage (link above).
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The latest Carnivalesque, an ancient/medieval edition, is up at Even in a little thing. And the final Carnivalesque of the year (which will be for all things early modern) will be hosted by the incomparable scribblingwoman in mid-December. (Nomination form here.)
For those of you interested in the Old Bailey Proceedings, eighteenth-century crime and all that jazz, this should be entertaining: Tales from the Hanging Court.
Buy it and make my bosses happy guys.
1. The Ashes has begun. I do not think there will be frenzied liveblogging this time round.
2. Wales v. the All Blacks on Saturday. It’s going to be bloody. (Update: Yeah, well. But less dispiriting than last year’s effort.)
Turdlywinks: like tiddlywinks but messier. And all in a good cause.
Better late than never: it’s up at Axis of Evel Knievel.
From Alaska to Down Under in one effortless stride: the next edition will be on 1 December at Barista. (Submissions here.)
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A quick note: the next Carnivalesque will be for ancient/medieval history and will be at Even in a little thing on or about 25 November. (Submissions here.)
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I’m on the lookout for hosts (as usual)…
I need a host for an early modern edition of Carnivalesque in mid-December.
And the History Carnival needs hosts in the New Year, from mid-January onwards.
The next History Carnival will be hosted on Wednesday 15 November by David Noon at Axis of Evel Knievel.
Email nominations for recently published posts about history (a historical topic, reviews of books or resources, reflections on teaching or researching history) to jfdhn[AT]uas[DOT]alaska[DOT]edu, or use the submission form provided by Blog Carnival.
The History Carnival is not just for academics and entries don’t have to be heavyweight scholarship, but they must uphold basic standards of factual accuracy. If you have any further questions about the criteria for inclusion, check out the Carnival homepage (link above).
Update (15 Nov): Due to internet problems, the Carnival’s running a bit on the late side – it should be up by the morning of 16 November. Bear with us!
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The Cliopatria Awards are open for business! Throughout November, you can submit nominations for the year’s best history blogging in six categories:
Best Group Blog
Best Individual Blog
Best New Blog
Best Post
Best Series of Posts
Best Writer
A libertarian argues that The left has been infected by the disease of intolerance (as if (a) the left has in the past been some kind of free-for-all, and (b) the right is such a shining beacon of tolerance).
Free speech in British universities is under attack by lefty academics and students because (among other things)
* A student union has banned the Daily Mail
* Another union banned the playing of Eminen records because of the use of words like ‘fags’
* Another one banned Israeli Embassy representatives from speaking there
* And other unions “have banned the sale of Coca-Cola and Kit-Kats in protest at the working practises of their parent companies”.
Since when was eating KitKats an expression of free speech, for chrissakes?
More generally, I don’t see that what any organisation, including a students’ union, decides – especially if based on a vote by the members – to sell or not sell in its own shops has anything to do with freedom of expression. Or that making a decision that might (probably marginally) reduce the profits of major companies like Coca Cola and Nestle has anything to do with intolerance.
At last.
(Specially for the over 30s.) Ever get nostalgic for your very first computer? It’s probably in here… (H-T.)
Is it just me or are there way more fireworks than when I was a kid? We went to the Abbey Gardens display every year, and apart from that, you got the occasional sparkler and liked it or lumped it. Besides, it was for kids, so it was mostly over by about 8 o’clock. Now, it’s every night for days beforehand and as for last night – well, at nearly midnight they were still going off. I mean, I like firework displays especially when I didn’t have to pay for them, but doesn’t it seem a teensy weensy bit excessive?
Anyway, since it’s that time of the year when we all remember crazy religious fanatics trying to destroy our treasured political and social traditions, here’s the latest Gunpowder Plot website, from our very own treasured Parliament.
Interesting to find software on the computer that you can’t remember installing, or even why you wanted it… Surely it wasn’t just the cute logo?
The 42nd History Carnival has been posted at Holocaust Controversies. The next one will be at Axis of Evel Knievel on 15 November.
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And I’ll be needing more hosts from mid-January onwards! If you’re interested, check out the carnival homepage and get in touch with me.
I can still remember the excitement I felt coming to anthropology as a history undergraduate already interested in early modern social/cultural history. I knew almost nothing about social and cultural anthropology (mind you, let’s face it, I still don’t know very much) and I started on a voyage of discovery with an assortment of anthropologists linked mainly by the fact that they were available on the not-so-well-stocked library shelves: Geertz, Victor Turner, Max Gluck, Barbara Douglas, Pierre Bourdieu and others.