Basiliscoe Mercury 246

The Basiliscoe Mercury 246


TheInternet newsletter for the arms and armour community


The end of the dodo, 16th and 17th century wrecks, important books and intriguing exhibitions. Not to mention falling statues in Berlin. And now you can browse much of the Royal Armouries collections online without having to come to snowy Leeds, even if it is almost May…


Arms and armour in the news


Ancient arms


Feature about finding stone arrowheads in the US

http://www.pennlive.com/perry-county-times/index.ssf/2016/04/arrowhead_finds_set_hunters_a-.html


Stone axes from Jutland, Denmark

http://cphpost.dk/news/historic-flint-axes-found-in-denmark.html


Ancient arms and armour from Bulgaria on view

http://archaeologyinbulgaria.com/20...ed-in-bulgarias-plovdiv-21-years-after-theft/

http://archaeologyinbulgaria.com/20...in-western-bulgaria-shown-for-the-first-time/


Beasts of assorted varieties…


True end of the dodo

http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20160408-how-humanity-first-killed-the-dodo-then-lost-it-as-well


Investigating a Cornish deer park

http://www.culture24.org.uk/history...-cornwall-archaeological-unit-deer-house-park


Through the arrow-slit . . .


Investigating Furness castle

http://www.thewestmorlandgazette.co...ms_to_unearth_lost_secrets_at_Furness_castle/


A future for Hull’s Beverly Gate

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-humber-35959294


Battles, forts and cannons


New work on Culloden

http://www.scotsman.com/heritage/pe...-uncover-secrets-of-culloden-battle-1-4100207


Looking for an 18th century fort at Lunenburg, Canada

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-...aeology-cary-saint-marys-university-1.3539176


How bright do you want your cannon painted?

http://www.kittanningpaper.com/2016/04/26/ford-city-undecided-on-final-cannon-color/61263


Living in the past


Fighting next year all along the wall. Get practising

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/u...ged-at-hadrian-s-wall-next-year-a6977146.html


Insights into jousting

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/c9daa030-0683-11e6-9b51-0fb5e65703ce.html


Miscellany


War on the brain?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencet...tml?ITO=1490&ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490


Into the 20th century


Graffiti in tunnels along the Somme

http://www.riverinaleader.com.au/story/3867026/graffiti-in-test-of-time/

http://artdaily.com/news/86788/Worl...raffiti-near-Battle-of-the-Somme#.Vx8aVbDmqUk


Dealing with unwanted 20th century monuments

http://www.ansa.it/nuova_europa/en/...nts_6cd1fd41-52bf-4614-842f-a4fdbd211e49.html


Nautical news


16th century cannon and wreck found

http://www.ancient-origins.net/news...s-and-remains-galley-discovered-during-020817


Update on the Esmerelda

http://www.thenational.ae/world/mid...of-pepper-unlocked-the-esmeralda-mystery#full


More on the 17th century Texel wreck

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/apr/21/400-year-old-dress-found-in-shiphttps://www.inverse.com/article/149...bot-oceanone-explore-a-17th-century-shipwreck


Update on the Nuestra Señora de la Encarnación 1681

http://www.eluniversal.comhttp://www.hakaimagazine.com/article-long/message-boulder


Researching past hurricane activity through Spanish shipwrecks

https://www.hakaimagazine.com/artic...ks-offer-new-data-quest-understand-hurricanes


Battle of Jutland

http://www.iwm.org.uk/history/battle-of-jutland



Museum news and exhibitions


News


Hard times at the Met?

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/22/arts/design/metropolitan-museum-of-art-plans-job-cuts-andrestruhttp://artdaily.com/news/86832/Fire...-Delhi-destroys-rare-collections#.VyBuYbDmqUk


New museums


Kazakhstan Military History Museum cooperates with Sweden’s Army Museum

http://astanatimes.com/2016/04/kaza...display-with-items-from-swedish-army-history/


Saddam Hussein’s palace to become a museum

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/04/12/saddam-husseins-palace-will-become-a-museum-in-iraq/


Ancient arms museum re-opens in southern Vietnam after 4 years http://tuoitrenews.vn/lifestyle/344...-reopens-in-southern-vietnam-after-4year-halt


Restoration of Azay-le-Rideau complete

http://theartnewspaper.com/news/con...room-french-ch-teau-azay-le-rideau-restored-/


New gallery in Brussels- defending Antarctica

http://www.klhttps://www.theguardian.com/science...ould-change-historical-research-crowdsourcing


Interactive battle map (and some comments)

http://gizmodo.com/this-shocking-map-of-battles-throughout-history-isnt-ev-1761574415


Museum musings


Agincourt legacy

http://www.wallacecollection.org/blog/2016/04/the-battle-of-agincourt-1415-technology-interpretathttp://www.telegram.com/article/20160422/entertainmentlife/160429773


Objects


A Hospitaller sword?

https://www.academia.edu/11204487/De_Valettes_Battlesword


Turkey feather headdress

http://www.penn.museum/blog/mushttp://money.cnn.com/2016/04/21/news/gun-auction-brigham-young-geronimo/


Exhibitions


Preview of V&A’s autumn exhibition- medieval embroidery- includes the Black Prince’s tabard

http://www.theguardian.com/artandde...ics-england-finest-embroidery-opus-anglicanum


Shakespeare and death in Oxford

http://www.culture24.org.uk/history...ath-william-shakespeare-weston-library-oxford


Sicily in London

http://www.culture24.org.uk/history...ish-museum-sicily-culture-conflict-exhibition

http://www.britishmuseum.org/whats_on/exhibitions/sicily.aspx


Royal regiment in Edinburgh

http://www.nms.ac.uk/national-war-museum/whats-on/life-support/


Napoleon in exile in Paris

http://www.theguardian.com/artandde...bition-paris-st-helena-musee-larmee-invalides

http://www.musee-armee.fr/ExpoNapoleonSainteHelene/


Exhibitions in Berlin

http://www.dhm.de/en/ausstellungen/


Toppled statues inBerlin

http://artdaily.com/news/86869/From...re-its-history-in-new-exhibition#.VyNln7Dmp9A


Cranach in Vienna

http://www.khm.at/en/visit/exhibitions/point-of-view-15/


Cervantes in Madrid

http://www.patrimonionacional.es/noticias/detalle/8706


Export art from China in Toronto

http://www.rom.on.ca/en/exhibitions-galleries/exhibitions/made-in-china-cultural-encounters-through


Exhibitions in Ottawa

http://www.warmuseum.ca/#exhibitions


Books


A.V.B. Norman and Ian Eaves: Arms and Armour in the Collection of Her Majesty The Queen: European Armour

http://www.royalcollectionshop.co.u...-the-collection-of-her-majesty-the-queen.html


Alfred Geibig and Heiner Grieb: Kunstvolle Waffen des Orients. Ausgewählte Blankwaffen der Sammlung Werner Uhlmann vom Maghreb bis nach Indien

http://www.kunstsammlungen-coburg.de/shop/museums-shop.php?kategorie=2


Wayne D Cocroft and John Schofield Der Teufelsberg in Berlin. Westlicher Horchposten in Kalten Krieg

http://www.christoph-links-verlag.de/index.cfm?view=3&titel_nr=888



Neil Faulkner: Lawrence of Arabia’s Warhttp://yalebooks.co.uk/display.asp?k=9780300196832


Roy R. Manstan and Frederic J. Frese:Turtle;David Bushnell’s Revolutionary Vesselhttp://www.westholmepublishing.com/turtle.php


Latest from Osprey

https://ospreypublishing.com/


Online books


Jean Baptiste Martin de Brettes: Recueil des bouches à feu les plus remarquables

https://books.google.co.uk/books?id...nepage&q=canon de fer sans tourillons&f=false


MikkoMoilanen: Marks of Fire, Value and Faith. Swords with Ferrous Inlays in Finland during the Late Iron Age (ca. 700–1200 AD)

http://www.doria.fi/handle/10024/119919


East Anglia Archaeology reports- as they go out of print, they are availablefree online so worth checking through

http://eaareports.org.uk/publications/



Popular culture


Heritage trail for Shakespeare 400

http://www.culture24.org.uk/history...speare-A-Heritage-trail-in-search-of-the-Bard


Filming forging

http://phfx.cohttps://shop.khm.at/en/shop/?shop[filter][tagsFacet]=Franz Joseph


The Brontës and Napoléon

http://www.historyextra.com/article...r referral&utm_medium=t.co&utm_campaign=Bitly


Events


Diary dates


Things to do and see at the Vasa

https://www.vasamuseet.se/en/exhibitions


What’s on at the Historial

http://www.historial.org/


What’s on inVienna?

http://www.hgm.at/


Conferences


11 June 2016 Leeds

Exploring The Staffordshire Hoard

https://www.royalarmouries.org/even...dar/2016-06-11/warrior-treasures-conference-1


17-19 June 2016 Merthyr Tydfil

Anniversary of Cyfarthfa Ironworks

http://hist-met.org/images/events_files/2016_Merthyr/2016_AGM_programme.pdf


3-9 July Milan

ICOMAM at ICOM

http://network.icom.museum/icom-milan-2016//


Calls for papers


12 September: Southampton

Objects & Possessions: Material Goods in a Changing World 1200–1800 – call for papers

http://www.southampton.ac.uk/objectsandpossessions2017/


Sales, fairs and auctions


11 May 2016 London

Antique Arms and Armour

http://www.bonhams.com/auctions/23564/



Websites and downloads


Pottedhistories at the IWM

http://www.iwm.org.uk/history


News from Paris

http://musee-armee.fr/fileadmin/user_upload/Documents/Echo-du-Dome/museearmee_echodudome_35.pdf


Royal Armouries digital collections

https://collections.royalarmouries.org/#/objects


A lighter note


Name those weapons!

http://www.medievalists.net/2016/04/19/can-you-identify-these-medieval-weapons-by-name/


Finally


This fortnight on twitter I followed the investigation of a medieval firepot

https://twitter.com/LadySaltpetre


https://twitter.com/Basiliscoe



Compiled by Ruth Rhynas Brown –30 April 2016


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