Early Modern Notes

Upcoming: The next History Carnival will be hosted by Penny Richards at Disability Studies Temple University on 1 May. Email your nominations to Penny at disstud[AT]temple[DOT]edu or use the nomination form.

Calling all early modernists and friends! I need a host for the next early modern edition of Carnivalesque in the second half of May! If you’ve enjoyed reading Carnivalesque and you have an interest in things early modern (c.1500-1800CE), please get in touch with me at sharon {at} earlymodernweb.org(.)uk.

For medievalists, classicists and all their friends: the latest ancient/medieval Carnivalesque is now up at Muhlberger’s Early History.

Upcoming: the next Carnivalesque will be an ancient/medieval edition hosted by Steve Muhlberger on 18 April at Muhlberger’s Early History. Nominate posts here.

Recently posted: the latest History Carnival is up at Frog in a Well: Korea.

What I’ve been reading online lately…

All digital, all the time: digital projects, wikipedia, and a bit o’ twitter:

Working with Wikipedia – Backstage Pass at the Powerhouse Museum
  what happened when museum curators met wikipedians for the day

Digital Projects Showcase at NCPH
  Public history on the web: Suzanne Fischer on 10 web projects presented at the NCPH conference

Digital Humanities in 2008, III: Research
  The final instalment of Lisa Spiro's roundup of the year in digital humanities

Assigning Wikipedia in a US History Survey
  Jeremy Boggs on how he teaches students to use Wikipedia – by making them write for Wikipedia

Reader Request Week 2009 #8: Twitter
  Scalzi answers the question: why's everyone going mad for Twitter?

Plus:

Norman Miller on the revival of the not so humble potato
  potatoes, mmmmmm.

no nuttier than formula one, really…
  from Barista: some mad, strange and surreal things, including banknotes yn Gymraeg

1. A complaint from the grand jury at the Middlesex Quarter Sessions, 7 April 1733:

We the Grand Inquest having from time to time Observed divers loose Idle and dissorderly Persons to Assemble in a certain place called Moorfields there behaving themselves in a very loose Idle and dissorderly manner by playing at Crickett tossing up half pence and in any other new invented wayes of Gaming Which we believe tends very much to the Depravation and Corruption of youth and Good manners And especially by Booths being Continually erected in Moorfields aforesaid Doe present the same as very great Grievances and hope this Court will [use?] such Methods to suppresse the same as they in their great Wisdoms shall think fitt

2. Eleven great songs about cricket (and more in the comments), inspired by Neil Hannon‘s new project The Duckworth Lewis Method. ‘Jiggery Pokery’: the best cricket song written from the perspective of Mike Gatting, ever. “How such a ball could be bowled I don’t know but, if you ask me, if it had been a cheese roll it would never have got past me”.