Graham Broad

@ProfessorBroad

Professional historian, amateur philosopher, premature curmudgeon. Associate professor . I tweet about history and bicycles.

London, ON
Vrijeme pridruživanja: prosinac 2013.

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  1. 3. velj
    Odgovor korisniku/ci

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    And then was William Booth, buried in Cabaret Rouge Cemetery (despite his file indicating that he was missing), and whose service file says little. It is very probable that no one has spoken his name in decades.

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    In a short time, we learned a great deal about limits of the historical record. There is no indication anywhere of the cause of death of 21 year old Ernest Apps, except that he was "killed in action" on a mostly quiet day for his battalion shortly before Vimy Ridge.

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    And how to account for the unfathomable bravery of men such as James Robertson, VC, who, among much else, gave his life pulling wounded comrades from No Man's Land?

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    We were reminded that the CEF was a diverse army (fully half were not born in the country.) 45 year-old private Akiyama Kichisaburo was born in Okayama, Japan, immigrated to British Columbia around 1900, and fell at the end of April 1917 in France.

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    Yesterday, small groups of students in were given the name of a cemetery on the Western Front and an hour to produce biographies of someone buried there using the digital resources at their disposal. They did an extraordinary job.

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  9. 31. sij

    Made the coffee too weak and now my day is ruined. Current plan:

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    Odgovor korisniku/ci

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    This very worthy cause in needs support.

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  12. 21. sij

    Best thing about is the way that mortals avert their eyes in shame when you dismount and pass them by, helmet clutched underarm, cheeks red, knuckles white.

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  13. 21. sij

    I anticipated some historians would gripe about "1917." I did not anticipate retroactive griping about "Wonder Woman" being an inaccurate depiction of the First World War. Pro tip, fellow historians: avoid Doctor Who.

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  14. 20. sij

    I live in what she would call a "gun free zone." It has 1/20th the homicide rate of Richmond, VA.

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  15. 19. sij

    Poll finds only 39% support for the constitutional monarchy (45% against, 17% unsure) Poll did not ask the operative question: do you know what a constitutional monarchy is? (Judging from their questions, some peeps don't know.)

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  16. 19. sij

    Part of the problem is this "brings history to life" business, wherein the primary function of the historian, apparently, is to make history appealing to people who aren't interested in history in the first place.

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  17. 19. sij

    I could (and have) gone on and on about this. My main point: colorize away, but don't tell me that you've *necessarily* made a photo (or a statue, or a cathedral) better by adding colour. Consider these clown mask horror desecrations of work by a genius, for example

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  18. 19. sij

    For another thing "they" saw the past: e.g., the photo itself, in the past, in "black & white" (ahem) too. And the Venus di Milo sans arms and Chartres cathedral under centuries of dirt. That's part of history, too.

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  19. 19. sij

    Consider, by way of analogy, this (almost) 50 year old monument (left). It had hair once. Do we restore it to its early condition (right)? No. It has been hairless longer than hairy and has evolved continuously through its life-cycle. There is no fundamentally "correct" version.

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  20. 19. sij

    Yeah, they were painted. There are traces of it now. But that's not necessarily grounds for painting them, for the same reason we don't necessarily rebuild ruins or put the arms back on the Venus di Milo. Being unpainted is part of its history, too: a longer part.

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