Turkel on Flux

Bill Turkel has writ­ten a thought pro­vok­ing post at Digital His­tory Hacks call­ing for a re-conception of how we ‘do’ his­tory. He sum­mar­izes his under­stand­ing of the con­ven­tional pro­cess involving meas­ured, con­crete steps, that unfor­tu­nately pre­sup­pose that time essen­tially stands still as we prac­tise our craft. Here I learn about Par­men­ides. Turkel pro­poses a radical …

An Historian Passes

I just dis­covered at the HNN that George Mac­don­ald Fraser, author of the acclaimed Flash­man series of his­tor­ical fic­tion novel, passed away yes­ter­day. His rib­ald con­tri­bu­tions to a true appre­ci­ation of the nuances of Vic­torian mil­it­ary and social his­tory will be missed. I have always looked for­ward to the next install­ment of the Flash­man papers. …

München Musings

Atzinger Gästhaus — 12 Decem­ber 2007 — 14:00 I happened across some notes I jot­ted down while enjoy­ing some won­der­ful pork stew at this little res­taur­ant. Munich is rather wet this year. It is a bit of a dampener — lit­er­ally. The thing about this place though is the won­der­ful bustle. There’s people out and …