Basiliscoe Mercury 290

The Basiliscoe Mercury290


TheInternet newsletter for the arms and armour community


Several articles relating to a new exhibition of arms and armour at our Civil War Centre. Otherwise fireworks from Mexico, explosions, amazons and Swedish forts in Ghana, and the VOC in The Hague. And a small gift of Easter Eggs….


Arms and armour in the news


Battles, towers and forts


Excavating the Goths and Romans in Bulgaria

http://archaeologyinbulgaria.com/20...digs-at-antiquity-odeon-in-bulgarias-plovdiv/


Irish graffito with knight on a horse

http://www.thejournal.ie/12th-centu...-discovery-in-dublins-coombe-3918137-Mar2018/


Grave stories


Has the tomb of warlord Cao Cao been found?

http://www.scmp.com/news/china/soci...confident-they-have-found-body-fabled-chinese


Update on mass grave atRepton

https://www.burtonmail.co.uk/news/burton-news/repton-historian-excited-mass-grave-1265188


Death in Dark Age Scotland

http://museumcrush.org/facial-reconstructions-peer-out-from-the-scottish-dark-ages/


Death of anemperor

http://www.medievalists.net/2018/03...vestigating-the-death-of-a-byzantine-emperor/


In the lists


Jousting with Maximilian

http://www.medievalists.net/2018/03/a-diet-of-tournaments-maximilian-at-worms-1495/


On the frontlines


Looking for a battlefield to visit over the Easter hols?

http://museumcrush.org/britains-best-places-to-see-historic-british-battlefields/


Investigating Glencoe massacre

https://www.livescience.com/62056-glencoe-massacre-archaeology.html

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smar...ttlements-of-1692-Glencoe-massacre-180968570/


Through the arrow-slit . . .


Thinking about trebuchets

http://www.medievalists.net/2014/07/a-good-day-for-a-trebuchet/


Investigating Edinburgh Castle’s well

http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/...secrets_of_main_medieval_well_for_the_Castle/


Old wallpaper found in Lindisfarne Castle

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news...e-restoration-uncovers-350-year-old-wallpaper


Investigating Carrickfergus castle

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northe...rchaeology&link_location=live-reporting-story


Sweden’s slave fort in Ghana

http://www.heraldlive.co.za/my-heraldlive/2018/03/18/ghana-gets-ready-to-greet-the-world/


Cannons to the left, cannon to the right


Conserving cannon in Bermuda

http://bernews.com/2018/03/students-help-historic-cannon-conservation/


English Heritage worried about their cannon

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-43557696


Cleaning Pendennis Castle’s cannon

http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/visit/places/pendennis-castle/history-and-stories/



Café Basiliscoe: this week’s menu


Norwegian porridge…

https://www.npr.org/sections/thesal...e-debate-or-tradition-vs-science?sc=17&f=1007


…washed down with the Beer of the Pharaohs

http://toronto.citynews.ca/2018/03/...t-to-life-by-classicist-and-winnipeg-brewery/


World War II rationing

http://museumcrush.org/how-the-ministry-of-food-managed-food-rationing-in-world-war-two/


Miscellany


Late medieval wall paintings in Coventry to go on show- nice armour!

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/mar/26/coventry-monastery-founded-in-1385-to-open-to-the-phttp://museumcrush.org/war-relics-reveal-their-battle-scars-at-the-national-civil-war-cehttps://www.archaeology.chttp://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-e...rchaeology&link_location=live-reporting-story


Reading Homer to help trauma

https://www.washingtonpost.com/life...cb0e66-273e-11e8-a227-fd2b009466bc_story.html


Things that go bang…


It happened in Windham: Gunpowder: Black Gold in the 19th century http://news.keepmecurrent.com/it-happened-in-windham-gunpowder-black-gold-in-thehttps://www.limerickleader.ie/news/...ght-gunpowder-explosions-rocked-the-city.html


Mexico’s fireworks for Easter- entertaining read!

http://roadsandkingdoms.com/2018/la-quema-dejudas-mexico-city/


Princesses and Amazons


Were there amazons?

http://bigthink.com/philip-perry/were-there-ever-any-real-amazon-warrior-women


More tales of women warriors

http://digital.vpr.net/post/ancient-instruments-and-modern-media-tell-tale-women-warriors?#stream/0



Nautical news


Based on unconvincing cannonball, team looks for 1609 Spanish galleonhttp://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/AJ201803180001.html


Searching for the Purísima Concepción, lost 1765, off Tierra del Fuego, http://www.maritimeherald.com/2018/from-film-conicet-scientists-investigate-a-historic-18th-century-shiphttps://www.washingtonpost.com/loca...706877db618_story.html?utm_term=.b506a3becb6f


Finds from Spanish galleon off Mexico on display

https://mexiconewsdaily.com/news/spanish-treasure-now-on-shelves-of-museum/

http://www.maritimeherald.com/2018/...olonial-jewels-on-the-yucatan-coast-revealed/


Short feature about the Amsterdam

https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/the-amsterdam-shipwreck


Carronades from the Debraack and other underwater problems- a long read

https://gizmodo.cohttps://www.theguardian.com/world/2...inted-way-to-franklin-shipwrecks-dies-aged-58



Museum news and exhibitions


News- mainly financial!


Feature on Nuremberg’s arms and armour displays

https://www.stripes.com/germanisches-national-museum-in-nuremberg-featurehttps://www.theartnewspaper.com/analysis/ancient-buddhist-sculptures-triumph-over-modern-masters


Culture comes at a price?

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2018/mar/25/museums-disturbing-fall-in-domestic-visitors-britons


NEA gets funding for another year

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/nea-and-other-arts-agencies-given-funding-boost-by-congress


Mona Lisa is staying at home…

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/louvre-says-non-to-minister-s-mona-lisa-granhttps://www.plymouthherald.co.uk/news/plymouth-news/plymouth-5-million-royal-navy-1073952


Museum developments


Bringing in the young folks - DJs and better labelling!

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/feature/how-to-double-your-visitor-numbers-a-case-study


Museum musings


Collecting today’s protest art

https://www.theguardian.com/artandd...s-protest-artworks-hope-to-nope-pink-pussyhat


Objects


Fairfax’s sword

https://nottstv.com/watch-famous-sword-of-english-civil-war-commander-goes-on-display-at-https://www.nts.org.uk/stories/treasure-of-fyvie-castle-goes-dutch-at-high-society-exhibition


Exhibitions


Chatham and the sea at Chatham

https://www.theguardian.com/artandd...hibition-charts-tide-history-chatham-dockyard

https://www.spectator.co.uk/2018/03...dockyard-as-told-through-the-eyes-of-artists/


Civil war arms and armour at Newark

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-nottinghamshire-43531995


WWI tanks at Bovington

http://www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/ne...uring_historic_tank_designs_through_the_ages/


Grinling Gibbons in York

http://museumcrush.org/meet-grinling-gibbons-the-michelangelo-of-wood/


The World of the VOC at The Hague

http://dewereldvandevoc.nl/?lang=en


Catherine the Great in St Petersburg

https://www.kreml.ru/en-Us/exhibitions/russian-exhibitions/ekaterina-ii-v-strane-i-v-mire/



Books


Pietro Monte's Collectanea: The Arms, Armour and Fighting Techniques of a Fifteenth-Century Soldier(Translated by Jeffrey L. Forgeng)

https://boydellandbrewer.com/pietro-monte-s-i-collectanea-i-hb.html


Antony Francis: The Deptford royal dockyard and manor of Sayes Court, London: excavations 2000–12

https://www.mola.org.uk/deptford-royal-dockyard-and-manor-sayes-court-london-excavations-2000–12


Books from the Royal Armouries

https://shop.royalarmouries.org/books-and-dvds.html


Online Book


Archaeology at Bloomberg (the Mithreaum)

https://www.mola.org.uk/archaeology-bloomberg



Popular culture


Some medieval novels for thesummer

http://www.medievalists.net/2018/03/reading-recommendations-for-a-marvellous-medieval-summer/


Events


Diary Dates


Richard Wallace 200

http://www.wallacecollection.org/blog/2018/01/richard-wallace-200/


Crownhill fort open days

https://www.landmarktrust.org.uk/cr...=facebook&utm_campaign=whatsonatcrownhillfort


Arms and Armour Society AGM - 5 April Tower of London

http://www.condottiero.com/ep675p9oyht9/armsandarmoursociety/home.html


Sales, fairs and auctions


7 April 2018 London

London Antique Arms Fair

http://www.antiquearmsfairsltd.co.uk/


18 Apr 2018 London

The Marine Sale

http://www.bonhams.com/auctions/24653/


21 April 2018 London

The Antique Arms Fair

https://www.antiquearmsfair.com/


24th April 2018 London

The Professor Charles Thomas Collection Auction

http://www.thomasdelmar.com/


HermannHistorica catalogues online

https://www.hermann-historica.de/en/Auktionen/Laufende



Websites and downloads


1066 etcMilitary strategy, Henry VIII warriors &Teutonic Knights,

http://www.medievalists.net/2018/03/reframing-the-conversation-on-medieval-military-strategy/

http://www.medievalists.net/2018/03...and-henry-viiis-expeditions-of-1513-and-1544/

http://www.medievalists.net/2018/03...-the-medieval-colonizing-settlement-at-biala/


Finally: a basket of eggs for Easter

http://hermitage--www.hermitagemuse...t-s-on/temp_exh/2015/faberge_greatwar/?lng=en

https://londonstreetviews.wordpress.com/2013/02/18/joseph-egg-gunsmith/

https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/33315

https://www.royalcollection.org.uk/collection/67191/pair-of-pistols

https://collections.museumvictoria.com.au/items/373537

https://collections.royalarmouries.org/object/rac-object-15127.html


This fortnight I tweeted a visit to London’s exhibitions

https://twitter.com/Basiliscoe



Compiled by Ruth Rhynas Brown –31 March 2018


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