Things Noted Here and There
at Serendipities on Saturday 27 October. Send nominations of the best in early modern history blogging since 19 August to her at k.steenbergh* at*let*dot*vu*dot*nl or use the form.PK's BibliOdyssey won the Cliopatria Award for Best New Blog, 2005. At edutopia, Damien B. M. English has a piece about Australia's PK and the creation of BibliOdyssey:"The Phantom of the Optical: An Online Illustration Trove". Now, it has become a book: PK, BibliOdyssey: Amazing Archival Images from the Internet. You can order it from Amazon or, in Europe and the UK, FUEL Publishing. It should be a candidate for the Lulu Blooker Prize.
Garry Wills,"The Loveliest Doors," NYRB, 8 November, reviews The Gates of Paradise: Lorenzo Ghiberti's Renaissance Masterpiece, an exhibit showing in Atlanta, Chicago, and New York between April 2007 and January 2008.
Adam Hochschild,"Voyage of the Damned," NYT, 21 October, reviews Marcus Rediker's The Slave Ship: A Human History.
Andrew Cayton,"The World on Fire," Washington Post, 21 October, reviews Jay Winik's The Great Upheaval: America and the Birth of the Modern World, 1788-1800.
A historian, Donald Tusk, led his Civic Platform party to victory in Poland's elections yesterday. He seems likely to join Gordon Brown as the second historian to form a European government in recent months. Both are committed to reducing their countries' forces in Iraq.
Finally, Jonathan Jarrett at A Corner of the Tenth Century exclaims it:"ZOMG I r fust lolhistorian." If you don't understand, let Geoffrey Chaucer explain.