Comments on: Live Blogging History: Accessible and Creative

By: Christopher Moore

Christopher Moore — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 21:25:27 +0000

Thanks for the thoughtful comments. I did draw inspiration from Brett’s Airminded blog (linked to above), also from online entry-a-day diaries like those of Pepys and George Orwell.

I’d be delighted to see other Canadian historians who, you know, actually find their subjects interesting starting to blog them. The genre remains to be invented.

But no book percolating — as I noted during the live-blog, last year saw a shelf-ful of new books published on the siege.

I did, however, live-blog the Quebec conference in October, and something may come of that.

By: Amanda

Amanda — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 19:33:13 +0000

What an utterly cool idea. Thanks for spreading the word.

By: Adam

Adam — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 16:08:08 +0000

Hey Brett, thanks for the added examples. I’ll give them a read.

By: Brett

Brett — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 03:17:38 +0000

Good to see more history bloggers doing this sort of thing! I did something very similar (I called it "post-blogging") for the Sudeten crisis of 1938 and also the (rather more obscure) phantom airship scare of 1909. Alan Allport is in the middle of a whole year's worth of post-blogging of the British experience of demobilisation at the end of the Second World War. David Silbey took a slightly different approach with the Boxer Uprising.