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Welcome!
The History Carnival is a monthly showcase of blog writing about history, usually held on the 1st day of the month. It's hosted at a different blog each month to provide a variety of approaches and perspectives.
Latest 1 May 2012
History Carnival 109 hosted by Joan Neuberger at Not Even Past.
stories on specific events or sources, digital history and digital sources, and visual history sources.
Next 1 June 2012
History Carnival 110 to be hosted by Alan Flower at History and the Sock Merchant.
Future Editions
1 June 2012: History and the Sock Merchant
1 July 2012: Stillwater Historians
Hosts needed! See information below and please contact the co-ordinator if interested.
Recent Editions
1 May 2012: HC 109 hosted by Joan Neuberger at Not Even Past
1 April 2012: HC 108 hosted by Pamela Toler at History in the Margins
1 March 2012: HC 107 hosted by Kelly Hignett at The View East
1 February 2012: HC 106 hosted by Jonathan Dresner at Frog in a Well: Japan
Hosting a Carnival
The History Carnival is on the look out for hosts! If you've enjoyed reading the Carnivals, why not take a turn at hosting and help to keep them running?
To host, you must have your own blog, and you should have some familiarity with history blogs. Hosts certainly do not have to be academic historians, but do need to have some knowledge of the field, preferably through personal experience of historical research and writing. Pseudonymous bloggers are welcome.
Hosting does require a few hours' work, sifting through nominations and compiling the carnival. (Imaginative themes are always welcomed but not compulsory.)
Carnival Nominations
History is a diverse field, and we welcome suitable nominations from anyone with something interesting to say about history, 'academic' or 'popular' - specialist topics, research, teaching, sources, debates and controversies, etc - so long as it is based on facts and evidence.
Posts consisting merely of links or quotes from other blogs may be considered but more substantive writing is preferred. Writing that engages with the past to discuss present issues should include significant historical content and analysis.
All nominations are vetted by the host of the edition, whose decision is final.
How to submit nominations
Nominated posts should have been published since the most recent Carnival edition (or shortly before).
The normal channel is to send an email to the host using the simple nomination form at this site. Individual hosts may provide additional options. Please ensure you include the full URL of the post you are nominating, and ideally the post title and blog name.
Recent Blog Posts
History Carnival June 201214 May 2012
History Carnival 110 will be hosted by Alan Flower on 1 June at History and the Sock Merchant.
Ancient/medieval Carnivalesque May 201214 May 2012
The next Carnivalesque will be hosted on Friday 25 May at Esmeralda’s Cumbrian History & Folklore. Please send in nominations for your favourite blogging on anything to do with the ancient and medieval periods from the last 3 months or so via the usual form.
CFP: Early Modern Carnivalesque14 April 2012
The next Carnivalesque will be for everything early modern (c.1500-1800CE) and will be hosted at Conversion Narratives in Early Modern Europe on 28/29 April.
Please nominate your favourite blog posts from the last couple of months using the nomination form. There will be a ‘conversion’ theme so posts on that and related topics will be particularly welcome!
Could you host a Carnival?8 April 2012
The History Carnival is looking for enthusiastic history bloggers to host upcoming editions of the Carnival, from July 2012 onwards. If you’d like to help out, please contact admin [at] historycarnival [dot] org or send a tweet @historycarnival.
History Carnival 109 - May 20128 April 2012
The next History Carnival will be held at Not Even Past on 1 May.
Nominations via the new form.
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