Happy Friday!!
This week's BBC podcast features
Peter Caddick Adams revisiting the battle of Monte Cassino and George Goslings talking us through the history of healthcare.
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What is the American Historical Association reading this week?
This weeks’s roundup of interesting articles and links from around the web includes:
notes on becoming a “stylish” writer, an AAUP report on contingent faculty and their involvement in governance, George W. Bush presidential library and museum launches a new website, NYT publishes an article on American History through a Mormon pov, Wikipedians at the National Archives, Gandhi Centre Stage, was the American Revolution just a war, and President Obama Historian-in-Chief . Also for fun a roundup of 4th of July celebrations around the country and a look at Pez.
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History Today always has such great posts! This week, the featured
Some of the Beards include..
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| Darwin Image from HistoryToday.com |
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| Lenin Image from HistoryToday.com |
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| Lincoln Image from HistoryToday.com |
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| Rasputin Image from HistoryToday.com |
For more information on the men behind these beards, check out the above Beard's Link.
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To see the collection, see the British Library's Manuscript's Page.
The manuscripts are as follows:
Royal 1 C. vii The Rochester Bible, England (Rochester), second quarter of the 12th century
Royal 1 D. ix The Cnut Gospels, England (Christ Church, Canterbury), c. 1020 (please see an earlier post on this manuscript here)
Royal 12 C. iii Filippo Alberici, Hieroglyphica and Emblematic Inscriptions, France (Paris), c. 1507
Royal 12 C. viii Pandolfo Collenuccio, Apologues, Italy (Rome and Florence), c. 1509 - c. 1517
Royal 15 D. i Bible Historiale, part 4 (Bible Historiale of Edward IV), Netherlands (Bruges), 1470 and c. 1479
Royal 16 G. viii Bellum Gallicum (Les Commentaires de Cesar), France (Lille) and Netherlands (Bruges), 1473 - 1476
Royal 17 D. vi Thomas Hoccleve, The Regement of Princes, England, second quarter of the 15th century
Royal 18 D. ii John Lydgate, Troy Book and Siege of Thebes, England (London?), c. 1457 - 1460
Royal 19 C. iv Le Songe du Vergier, France (Paris), 1378
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Also, check out London's National Gallery July 2012 Podcast!
This podcast focuses on the National Gallery's 'Metamorphosis: Titian 2012' exhibit starting July 11 and running through September 23.
This includes....
Titian's Diana and Actaeon, The Death of Actaeon and Diana and Callisto
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| Diana and Callisto Image from NationalGallery.org.uk |
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| Diana and Actaeon Image from NationalGallery.org.uk |
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| The Death of Actaeon Image from NationalGallery.org.uk |
