BBC News – Berlin 1914: A city of ambition and self-doubt One hundred years ago, Germany was an industrial powerhouse and its capital Berlin had hopes of becoming a great world city. Instead, decades of catastrophe followed.
Call for Paper: International Graduate Historical Studies Conference
Call for Paper: International Graduate Historical Studies Conference What happens when scholars remove the lines that separate states, nations, generations, the sexes, and other divisions in society? The International Graduate Historical Studies Conference at Central Michigan University seeks to find out on March 28-29, 2014. Increasingly, scholars in a variety of fields are ignoring the…
The Collapse of Ottoman and Austria-Hungarian Empires: Patterns and Legacies
The Collapse of Ottoman and Austria-Hungarian Empires: Patterns and Legacies This conference, which is organized by the University of Utah, the Ludwig Boltzmann-Institute for Social Science History, and the Institute for East European History (University of Vienna) will examine the social and political causes of the collapse of Ottoman and Austria-Hungarian Empires and examine the…
Call for Papers: Legacy of World War I
CFP: Legacy of World War I The Legacy of World War I November 14-15, 2014 The History and Political Science Department at Chestnut Hill College will host an interdisciplinary conference on “The Legacy of World War I,” November 14-15, 2014. Keynote speakers will be Jay Winter (Yale University) and Laura Lee Downs (European University Institute,…
Dictionary of Medieval Latin completed after 100 years – Telegraph
Dictionary of Medieval Latin completed after 100 years – Telegraph The most comprehensive study ever produced of Latin in medieval Britain has been published a century after the project began. The British Academy has published the final part of its monumental Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources, which contains more than 58,000 entries in nearly…
Young Eastern European Fellowship at the Centre for Contemporary History Potsdam (ZZF)
Young Eastern European Fellowship at the Centre for Contemporary History Potsdam (ZZF) The Zentrum für Zeithistorische Forschung / Centre for Contemporary History Potsdam (ZZF) is pleased to invite applications for a Young Eastern European Fellowship to study German and European History in the 20th century. This six-months fellowship will provide young scholars from East Central…
Augustine and anarchy: A thinker for troubled times | The Economist
Augustine and anarchy: A thinker for troubled times | The Economist Which great minds of the past can we turn to for guidance as the year of Our Lord 2014 beckons, with all its perils and opportunities? Well, if you flick through any basic history of Western thought, chances are that Augustine of Hippo will…
Happy Holidays and Best Wishes in the New Year
I wanted to take this opportunity to wish you all a Happy Holidays and a most wonderful New Year. I appreciate all those who visit, comment and/or follow this blog. It gives me great pleasure to share these posts on matters related to history, politics and my professional interests. I hope this season will bring…
Italy’s ‘abandoned’ Riace Bronzes back on show in Calabria
BBC News – Italy’s ‘abandoned’ Riace Bronzes back on show in Calabria Two of Italy’s greatest archaeological treasures are going back on show in their museum after a protracted renovation process that put them at the centre of a national controversy.
BBC – Unlocking the scrolls of Herculaneum
BBC – Unlocking the scrolls of Herculaneum The British Museum’s 2013 show of artifacts from the Roman cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum, buried in ash during an explosive eruption of Mount Vesuvius, was a sell-out. But could even greater treasures – including lost works of classical literature – still lie underground?
Oxford University Presents the 550-Year-Old Gutenberg Bible
Oxford University Presents the 550-Year-Old Gutenberg Bible The Polonsy Foundation Digitization Project, which aims to digitize the collections of Oxford’s Bodleian Libraries and the Vatican’s Biblioteca Apostolica, made a virtual version of the Gutenberg Bible available online.
A million first steps – British Library releases 1 million images
A million first steps – British Library released 1 million images The British Library has released over a million images onto Flickr Commons for anyone to use, remix and re-purpose. These images were taken from the pages of 17th, 18th and 19th century books digitized by Microsoft who then generously gifted the scanned images to us, allowing us to…
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