Awesome! That would rock extremely hard, especially since it's an area I know very little about even though it's supposed to be my period. I don't think specialist knowledge is really required - more just the ability to pick an interesting person or story, summarise it and rustle up a few good links or references.
Both of those sound perfect, and I would love you to write them, or can assign other people to them if that's not possible. I'll send out a general email in mid-May asking where people are up to with their posts, and see what's going on then?
Are you going to do a new style for the blog? Like, some art up the top?
Definitely! Any suggestions? It's hard to know what to pick, since space means something's going to get excluded... maybe there could be a rotating set of regularly-changed images.
I don't think I could actually do it - I have fear of writing essays, post-Oxford - but a while ago shimgray was reading old reports from the Old Bailey that have just been put online, and there are cases from the seventeenth century with defendants and plaintiffs described as "lascar". I just sat bolt upright and said, "What, they were like ME?" I was just blown away, seriously - three hundred years ago, there were people like me here. I was never taught that, I never knew that. I thought we'd been here thirty years at the most. And then I was reading about how there were Indian sailors and ayahs and scholars in London and Liverpool before 1700, and I was just flapping my hands about in total amazement.
Awww, man, in that case can you forget I ever used the word 'essay', and pretend it's just a normal LJ post? Pretty please? 'Cause that moment - I was just blown away, seriously - three hundred years ago, there were people like me here - is exactly what I'm talking about when I talk about 'secret histories'.
Also, responses can most definitely be more personal and less essay-like than my overschooled academic historian brain is maybe making it sound - perhaps I should amend above to make this clear.
In other words, no pressure ;) but I would explode from happiness if you did decide to write on that topic.
Arrrgh. Oh, maybe, maybe... the thing is, I ought to know more about this myself. So... I give you maybe. I'll think about it, and maybe poke the Old Bailey some more, and see if I can produce something.
I would love something from you on Victorian queerness, and I'm sure a bit of scratching around will turn up something fantastic. Promotion would be great too - I wouldn't start until after the blog goes live in the first week of June, but after then, sell the historical heck out of it!
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I would love anything on Australian art and artists, Ruby Lindsay or Aboriginal artists or both. Would you do it as image-analysis so I can post pretty pictures too? :)
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Are you going to do a new style for the blog? Like, some art up the top?
Definitely! Any suggestions? It's hard to know what to pick, since space means something's going to get excluded... maybe there could be a rotating set of regularly-changed images.
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Also, responses can most definitely be more personal and less essay-like than my overschooled academic historian brain is maybe making it sound - perhaps I should amend above to make this clear.
In other words, no pressure ;) but I would explode from happiness if you did decide to write on that topic.
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Also, someone-who-is-not-me ought to write about Ewan Forbes-Sempill.
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