Tuesday, 25. May 2010
Bruce Rosen, a retired professor from Tasmania, writes the excellent Victorian History blog. His latest entry deals with bare knuckle fighting - a topic currently high on my radar.
While Rosen takes an academic tone, his work remains totally entertaining and best of all there is no questioning his accuracy. Here ...
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Sunday, 25. April 2010
Installations of arms and armour are largely responsible for getting me engaged with history and museums. To this day, I'm pretty excited to walk through or learn about new related exhibitions. 'We've Got Mail,' does two enticing things - 1) it brings examples of mail from private collection to public ...
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Tuesday, 30. March 2010
Though not a new release (it came out in 2009), A New Literary History of America is worth knowing about. Through about 200 essays, of around 1000 words each, the book reveals snapshots of American life and in total creates one of the more unique attempts at telling the American ...
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Tuesday, 30. March 2010
Over the weekend while enjoying a late night brew or two with a neighbor, he popped in this Led Zeppelin DVD from 2003. Now I am sure most have seen "The Song Remains The Same" but this is an even more essential view into one of the worlds greatest rock ...
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Wednesday, 10. March 2010
It seems that when Ballard retail residents Blackbird and Alden footwear join heads they are force to be reckoned with. The most recent of their collaborations is the Frank Osgood Series Saddle Shoe. Who's Frank Osgood you ask? Check out the Blackbird blog for a history lesson on "the father ...
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Tuesday, 09. March 2010
In response to Steven's post earlier, these Wolverine Winstons may fill a footwear void for some. Coming from the Garrison department in the Wolverine 1000 Mile collection and modeled after combat boots that Wolverine has produced since WWII, these have a nice touch of casual class combined with some rugged ...
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Monday, 01. February 2010
Sporting history from when men were men (and wore full length knickers to fight). Billy Edward's Gladiators of the Prize Ring: Heroes of All Nations was published in 1894 by Pugilistic Publishing Co. of Philadelphia of PA. The book contains a portrait gallery of American pugilists and their contemporaries ...
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