Friday's Links to the Past - 6 Jan 2012

BBC's weekly podcast:

Denis Judd explains the appeal of King George VI and Gus Casely-Hayford tells the remarkable story of a golden African Kingdom

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 The American Historical Association took the week off due to their annual conference in Chicago.

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Love London?? Learn about the history in your favorite spots. This week, History Today featured the interactive website Locating London's Past . The website: 

provides an intuitive GIS [geographic information system] interface enabling researchers to map and visualize textual and artefactual data relating to seventeenth and eighteenth-century London

Cant' figure the site out? Watch some tutorial videos. 

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Early this week, the Leonard Lopate show re-aired a segment featuring author and Classicist James Romm to talk about his book, Ghosts on the Throne: The Death of Alexander the Great and the War for the Crown and Empire. This interesting book looks at what happens to Alexander's empire when he dies at the young age of 32. 

Below is the show:





-VB


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