Basiliscoe Mercury 315

The Basiliscoe Mercury315


TheInternet newsletter for the arms and armour community


Exciting prospects from the Met for the autumn, a new sword for Malta, new museum of the Civil War in Richmond and books on medieval effigies and a Dutch wreck. Don’t forget this is Museum week, culminating in Night in the Museums.


Arms and armour in the news


Grave stories


Update on Poland’sprehistoric massacre

https://www.sciencealert.com/this-5...-a-tragic-tale-of-an-extended-family-s-murder


Investigating the site of Glencoe’s massacre

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scohttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/worlhttps://www.spectator.co.uk/2019/05/the-joy-of-jousting/


Stories from the Tudor court

https://royalarmouries.org/stories/...udor-court-in-the-royal-armouries-collection/


Cannons to the left, cannon to the right


Chinese gunpowder and grenades

https://www.thevintagenews.com/2019/05/08/gunpowder/


Update on the buried guns of Fort Cornwallis

https://www.thestar.com.my/news/nation/2019/05/11/buried-cannons-leave-experts-baffled/

https://www.thesundaily.my/local/fort-cornwallis-set-to-be-major-tourist-attraction-CM860477


Capetown’s disappearing gun

https://www.thesouthafrican.com/cape-towns-disappearing-gun-featured-by-bbc/

https://www.bbc.com/reel/video/p0777f9t/the-mystery-of-the-disappearing-gun-


Ramadan cannon firing

https://www.timeoutdubai.com/news/4...on-firings-during-ramadan-at-madinat-jumeirah


Muskegon, Michigan, WW2 warship gets anti-aircraft Bofors gun

https://www.navytimes.com/news/your-navy/2019/05/10/museum-ship-to-get-wwii-anti-aircraft-cannon/


World Heritage


Chinese warrior buried with jade weapon excavated

http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2019-05/01/c_138026305.htm


Update on the story of Captain Cook’s shield

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-05...for-stolen-indigenous-gweagal-shield/11085534


Miscellany


Trouble with medieval history

https://www.nytimeshttps://lovinmalta.com/lifestyle/hi...ord-used-in-medieval-battles-donated-to-malta


British 1812 fort found in Florida

https://www.archaeology.org/news/7618-190429-florida-fort-gadsden


Nautical news


Update on the search for Cortes’ ships

https://mexiconewsdaily.com/news/search-for-cortes-ships-turns-up-anchor/


New thoughts on the Mary Rose

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/may/05/mary-rose-henry-viii-triple-decker-https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smar...looking-images-hms-beagles-anchors-180972073/


A tour of the HMS Victory

https://www.historyextra.com/period...an-navy-nelson-flagship-trafalgar-portsmouth/



Museum news and exhibitions


News


England’s museums outside London in crisis

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/may/07/cuts-england-museums-london-cliff-edge


New museums


New gallery for the Anglo-Saxon Prittlewell prince at Southend Museum

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news...alent-to-tutankhamun-found-in-southend-on-sea


American Civil War Museum opens in Richmond

https://www.wvtf.org/post/new-american-civil-war-museum-explores-fullness-past#stream/0

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/hist...uths-former-capital-of-confederacy-180972085/


Museum developments


Singing the First World War at Doncaster’s museums

https://museumcrush.org/how-doncasters-wwi-stories-became-contemporary-folk-songs/


Museum musings


Update on the status of Confederate statues

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/new...-statues-in-charlottesville-are-war-memorials


Museums in a changing world

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/com...ums-and-the-rise-of-authoritarian-nationalism


Faking the renaissance

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smar...nce-copies-fakes-and-reproductions-180972094/


Conservation corner


Blacksmiths in ancient Africa

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smit...ful-status-across-continent-africa-180972065/


Find the cupid in Vermeer’s painting

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/hidden-cupid-resurfaces-in-one-of-vermeer-s-best-known-works


Objects


Feature on the guns of the Indiana War Memorial

https://www.guns.com/news/2019/05/06/guns-of-the-indiana-war-memorial-photos


Feature on the demise of Remington

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/05/01/magazine/remington-guns-jobs-huntsville.html


And the rise of Swedish rivals

https://www.maxim.com/gear/vo-vapen-hunting-rifles-2019-5


Saddle axe for sale

https://www.antiquestradegazette.com/news/2019/marklin-train-opium-war-map-and-lalique-glass-figure-five-auction-highlights-that-caught-bidders-eyes-in-thttps://www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/listings/2019/last-knight-art-armor-ambition-maximilian


Sebald in Norwich

http://artdaily.com/news/113526/Exh...he-75th-anniversary-of-his-birth#.XNkjfjHsZ9A


Turner in the North at Berwick on Tweed- lots of ruined castles

https://museumcrush.org/how-a-trip-up-north-made-turner-into-the-poet-of-the-landschttps://africa.si.edu/exhibitions/current-exhibitions/striking-iron-the-art-of-african-blacksmiths/


Books


Brian Gittos & Moira Gittos: Interpreting Medieval Effigies: The Evidence from Yorkshire to 1400

https://www.oxbowbooks.com/oxbow/interpreting-medieval-effigies.html


Online Book


J. Opdebeeck, T. Coenen & A. Vos: Palmhoutwrak: een venster naar de gouden eeuw

https://publicaties.cultureelerhttps://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-east-news/how-hadrians-wall-been-viewed-16236775


Combining modern art and veteran’s experiences

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/veterans-and-artists-draw-creative-profit-out-of-war


Thoughts on Tolkien the Movie

http://www.medievalists.net/2019/https://www.historial.fr/


May Museum Nights- check locally for events in the museums in your area! Here’s the UK’sumbrella site

https://museumsatnight.org.uk/


And here’s a selection of other places

https://en.parisinfo.com/paris-show-exhibition/136099/la-nuit-des-musees

https://www.visitberlin.de/en/event/39th-long-night-museums-2019


Diary dates


6 June 2019 Lecture at the Arms and Armour Society

Classical Japanese Swordsmanship - Separating Legend, and Myth from fact

Neil Grigg

https://www.thearmsandarmoursociety.org.uk/events/


Conferences


3 June 2019 Cambridge

Do Not Touch? 3D in Museums https://onlinesales.admin.cam.ac.uk...ouch-3d-in-museums/do-not-touch-3d-in-museums


Calls for papers


September 2019 Kyoto early bird booking running out

ICOMAM 2019 Conference, Kyoto (Japan) http://icom-kyoto-2019.org/data/ima...8E-Qdx4KsoD_htE1_BHGVouQhJSu4YRKPyN4D4N8ckh3o


Sales, fairs and auctions


20– 24 May 2019

Hermann Historica

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


23 May 2019 London

Antique Arms and Armour

https://www.bonhams.com/auctions/25424/


23 May 2019 London

Modern Sporting Guns

https://www.bonhams.com/auctions/25426


Thomas del Mar dates for 2019

25 June & 4 December 2019

http://www.http://artdaily.com/news/112542/Wea...ctions--Ethnographic-Art-Auction#.XK3BpDHsZ9A



Websites and downloads


Website of the new American Civil War Museum

https://acwm.org/


Woolwich Antquarians have their own new website

https://woolwich-antiquarians.org/


The Georgian Papers project

https://www.rct.uk/collection/georgian-papers-programme


1066 etc Mounted infantry, Trolls & the Poetic Edda

http://www.medievalists.net/2019/05/horror-in-the-medieval-north-the-troll/

http://www.medievalists.net/2019/05/daylamis-elite-infantrymen/

http://www.medievalists.net/2019/05/the-poetic-edda/


Finally


ICOMAM MAGAZINE

We are putting together the next ICOMAM MAGAZINE. If you or your institution have anything that the arms and armour community would be interested in, let us know. You can see the previous editions here:

http://network.icom.museum/icomam/publications/the-magazine/


This fortnight I will be tweeting pictures from Northumberland

https://twitter.com/Basiliscoe



Compiled by Ruth Rhynas Brown –13 May 2019


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Thanks, Spring.....bookmarked it to dive into it more later!!!!! Always good reads in there!!!!!