Comments for a historian's craft

Comment on small thoughts by Yvonne

Yvonne — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 02:56:17 +0000

Are you interested in American universities, Rachel? I thought you had strong opinions on that one!

Comment on bookporn #21: clare college, cambridge by james

james — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 09:39:11 +0000

Awesome, I really enjoyed reading this article. The library is looking very nice.

Thanks.

Comment on Curating the Oceans: The Future of Singapore’s Past by tommy

tommy — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 00:38:10 +0000

Thank you for posting this. Particularly excited about the blue-and-white porcelain as I’ve never seen any designs like them and I think these are extremely exciting in the context of blue-and-white ceramic history. Currently the most important ones thought to date the lineage of this style is a pair of (rather ugly) vases in the Percival David collection exhibiting at the British Museum. These Tang plates are very pleasing to my (modern) eye but I wonder why I haven’t seen any evolved versions through the dynasties. Perhaps like the typical blue-and-white we have come to know, they are originally made for export markets/foreign tastes. Agree completely with your last paragraph. It’s something I’ve been thinking about a lot since seeing Mainland China-produced “historical” films.

Comment on bookporn #43: heffers, cambridge by Rachel

Rachel — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 21:59:16 +0000

@Buster my god, that photo takes my breath away.

Comment on Only Collect by small thoughts « a historian’s craft

small thoughts « a historian’s craft — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 21:55:21 +0000

[...] I’m nowhere even near to being in the position to teach anyone yet, but I regard this as a glacial amassing of interesting photos, secondary reading, sound and video clips, primary sources, quirky anecdotes, [...]

Comment on indulgence & sin by davey

davey — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 15:02:44 +0000

Excellent endevour. I will have a closer look at the map. Great work!

Comment on bookporn #43: heffers, cambridge by Buster

Buster — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 11:47:45 +0000

For your bibliophilic gaze: http://vervephoto.wordpress.com/2009/10/19/mike-tsang/

Also, you may want to check out the full series on London book dealers at http://www.miketsangphotography.com/

Comment on indulgence & sin by rki lån

rki lån — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 18:51:04 +0000

Great post thanks. Wanna go the same places

Comment on indulgence & sin by Richard

Richard — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 23:37:59 +0000

That is a cool map, and a great idea. Thank you very much for sharing it with all of us!

Comment on bookporn #43: heffers, cambridge by Nick

Nick — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 21:25:00 +0000

I started my undergraduate degree at Cambridge in 1998 and spent a happy first year spending too much money at Heffers and learning the idiosyncracies of how its history section was categorised. Then Blackwells bought it and made it all sensibly categorised – much more convenient, but some of the magic was lost!