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<p>[QUOTE="springfld.arsenal, post: 21271, member: 54"]<font size="6"><b><b>The Basiliscoe Mercury </b></b></font></p><p><b>The</b> <b>Internet newsletter for the arms and armour community</b></p><p>Roman helmets, dead monarchs, Smithsonian sword catalogue and a request for contributions for the next ICOMAM MAGAZINE</p><p><b>Arms and armour in the news</b></p><p><b>Ancient arms</b></p><p>Earliest cave paintings found in Indonesia</p><p><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/science/2014/oct/08/cave-art-indonesia-sulawesi" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.theguardian.com/science/2014/oct/08/cave-art-indonesia-sulawesi" rel="nofollow">http://www.theguardian.com/science/2014/oct/08/cave-art-indonesia-sulawesi</a></p><p>[MEDIA=youtube]ZVEqkVDn6Y4[/MEDIA]</p><p>Princely grave from Bronze Age Murcia - no pictures</p><p><a href="http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/10/141008101410.htm" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/10/141008101410.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/10/141008101410.htm</a></p><p>Flint dagger with wooden hilt found in Lolland, Denmark - picture</p><p><a href="http://cphpost.dk/news/rare-bronze-age-knife-discovered-in-southern-zealand.11165.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://cphpost.dk/news/rare-bronze-age-knife-discovered-in-southern-zealand.11165.html" rel="nofollow">http://cphpost.dk/news/rare-bronze-age-knife-discovered-in-southern-zealand.11165.html</a></p><p><b>Battles, towers and forts</b></p><p>Possible head of the goddess Brigantia found in Roman fort at South Shields</p><p><a href="http://www.culture24.org.uk/history-and-heritage/archaeology/art502126-archaeologists-find-statuette-head-of-northern-goddess-at-arbeia-roman-fort" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.culture24.org.uk/history-and-heritage/archaeology/art502126-archaeologists-find-statuette-head-of-northern-goddess-at-arbeia-roman-fort" rel="nofollow">http://www.culture24.org.uk/history-and-heritage/archaeology/art502126-archaeologists-find-statuette-head-of-northern-goddess-at-arbeia-roman-fort</a></p><p>Canterbury’s Roman helmet goes on display - fascinating story!</p><p><a href="http://www.culture24.org.uk/history-and-heritage/archaeology/art501336-iron-age-roman-helmet-used-as-container-for-cremation-goes-on-display-in-kent" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.culture24.org.uk/history-and-heritage/archaeology/art501336-iron-age-roman-helmet-used-as-container-for-cremation-goes-on-display-in-kent" rel="nofollow">http://www.culture24.org.uk/history-and-heritage/archaeology/art501336-iron-age-roman-helmet-used-as-container-for-cremation-goes-on-display-in-kent</a></p><p><a href="http://www.culture24.org.uk/history-and-heritage/archaeology/art411288" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.culture24.org.uk/history-and-heritage/archaeology/art411288" rel="nofollow">http://www.culture24.org.uk/history-and-heritage/archaeology/art411288</a></p><p>Investigating a Roman camp in Bulgaria unearths many finds</p><p><a href="http://www.naukawpolsce.pap.pl/en/news/news,401982,numerous-finds-in-a-roman-camp.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.naukawpolsce.pap.pl/en/news/news,401982,numerous-finds-in-a-roman-camp.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.naukawpolsce.pap.pl/en/news/news,401982,numerous-finds-in-a-roman-camp.html</a></p><p>Ancient warriors liked nothing better than sitting down doing their nails and titivating their hairdos</p><p><a href="http://sciencenordic.com/ancient-male-warriors-showed-signs-vanity" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://sciencenordic.com/ancient-male-warriors-showed-signs-vanity" rel="nofollow">http://sciencenordic.com/ancient-male-warriors-showed-signs-vanity</a></p><p>Update on the Finnish discovery of swordsman’ grave a few month back</p><p><a href="http://yle.fi/uutiset/ancient_swordsmans_grave_could_hold_many_more_secrets/7495913" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://yle.fi/uutiset/ancient_swordsmans_grave_could_hold_many_more_secrets/7495913" rel="nofollow">http://yle.fi/uutiset/ancient_swordsmans_grave_could_hold_many_more_secrets/7495913</a></p><p><b>Grave stories</b></p><p>This week’s candidate for looking-for a-dead-monarch-1 Philip of Macedonia</p><p><a href="http://news.discovery.com/history/archaeology/remains-of-alexander-the-greats-father-confirmed-found-141009.htm" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://news.discovery.com/history/archaeology/remains-of-alexander-the-greats-father-confirmed-found-141009.htm" rel="nofollow">http://news.discovery.com/history/archaeology/remains-of-alexander-the-greats-father-confirmed-found-141009.htm</a></p><p>This week’s candidate for looking-for a-dead-monarch-2 King Harold</p><p><a href="http://www.culture24.org.uk/history-and-heritage/war-and-conflict/pre-20th-century-conflict/art500890-was-king-harold-buried-at-waltham-abbey-years-after-the-battle-of-hastings-ground-scan-could-reveal-all" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.culture24.org.uk/history-and-heritage/war-and-conflict/pre-20th-century-conflict/art500890-was-king-harold-buried-at-waltham-abbey-years-after-the-battle-of-hastings-ground-scan-could-reveal-all" rel="nofollow">http://www.culture24.org.uk/history-and-heritage/war-and-conflict/pre-20th-century-conflict/art500890-was-king-harold-buried-at-waltham-abbey-years-after-the-battle-of-hastings-ground-scan-could-reveal-all</a></p><p><a href="http://www.guardian-series.co.uk/news/efnews/11501908._/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.guardian-series.co.uk/news/efnews/11501908._/" rel="nofollow">http://www.guardian-series.co.uk/news/efnews/11501908._/</a></p><p>Moving piece about recently identified Canadian soldiers who died at the Somme</p><p><a href="http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/wwi-canadian-soldiers-remains-identified-1.2779824" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/wwi-canadian-soldiers-remains-identified-1.2779824" rel="nofollow">http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/wwi-canadian-soldiers-remains-identified-1.2779824</a></p><p>Something for fans of this section to put on Christmas list<b><i>: Forensics</i></b> by Val McDermid</p><p><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/sep/26/val-mcdermid-extract-forensics-the-anatomy-of-crime" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/sep/26/val-mcdermid-extract-forensics-the-anatomy-of-crime" rel="nofollow">http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/sep/26/val-mcdermid-extract-forensics-the-anatomy-of-crime</a></p><p><b>Middle-east updates</b></p><p>Ritual baths and WW2 Australian graffiti in Israel - great research!</p><p><a href="http://www.antiquities.org.il/article_eng.aspx?sec_id=25&subj_id=240" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.antiquities.org.il/article_eng.aspx?sec_id=25&subj_id=240" rel="nofollow">http://www.antiquities.org.il/article_eng.aspx?sec_id=25&subj_id=240</a></p><p>Lists of cultural artefact casualties in Syria being made available</p><p><a href="http://www.theartnewspaper.com/articles/Antiquities-collections-destroyed-in-Gaza-conflict/35883" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.theartnewspaper.com/articles/Antiquities-collections-destroyed-in-Gaza-conflict/35883" rel="nofollow">http://www.theartnewspaper.com/articles/Antiquities-collections-destroyed-in-Gaza-conflict/35883</a></p><p><br /></p><p><font size="5"><b>Through the arrow-slit . . . </b></font></p><p>Medieval castle found under school in Ross-on-Wye</p><p><a href="http://www.herefordtimes.com/news/11497427.Ancient_stone_castle_found_under_school/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.herefordtimes.com/news/11497427.Ancient_stone_castle_found_under_school/" rel="nofollow">http://www.herefordtimes.com/news/11497427.Ancient_stone_castle_found_under_school/</a></p><p>Investigating Dracula’s castle, Tokat, in northern Turkey</p><p><a href="http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/draculas-dungeon-discovered-by-archaeologists-tokat-castle-turkey-1467632" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/draculas-dungeon-discovered-by-archaeologists-tokat-castle-turkey-1467632" rel="nofollow">http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/draculas-dungeon-discovered-by-archaeologists-tokat-castle-turkey-1467632</a></p><p><b>Back to the front</b></p><p>Sir Ranulf Fiennes has his say on Agincourt</p><p><a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2771440/The-day-chivalry-died-mire-Think-skilled-archery-won-battle-Agincourt-Wrong-slaughter-2-000-French-POWs-says-Sir-Ranulph-Fiennes-ancestors-fought-sides.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2771440/The-day-chivalry-died-mire-Think-skilled-archery-won-battle-Agincourt-Wrong-slaughter-2-000-French-POWs-says-Sir-Ranulph-Fiennes-ancestors-fought-sides.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2771440/The-day-chivalry-died-mire-Think-skilled-archery-won-battle-Agincourt-Wrong-slaughter-2-000-French-POWs-says-Sir-Ranulph-Fiennes-ancestors-fought-sides.html</a></p><p>One last survey and dig at Flodden this year before winter sets in…</p><p><a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-south-scotland-29474387" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-south-scotland-29474387" rel="nofollow">http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-south-scotland-29474387</a></p><p>New developments offer a chance to investigate Annapolis’s Civil war History</p><p><a href="http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/anne-arundel/annapolis/bs-md-ar-camp-parole-20140923,0,652812,full.story" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/anne-arundel/annapolis/bs-md-ar-camp-parole-20140923,0,652812,full.story" rel="nofollow">http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/anne-arundel/annapolis/bs-md-ar-camp-parole-20140923,0,652812,full.story</a></p><p><font size="5"><b>Cannons to the left, cannon to the right</b></font></p><p>Vasa’s replica cannon to be proofed</p><p><a href="http://www.mynewsdesk.com/se/vasamuseets-vaenner/pressreleases/invitation-for-press-to-attend-a-media-day-22-october-test-firing-a-replica-of-the-swedish-warship-vasa-s-24-pounder-bronze-guns-1064562" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.mynewsdesk.com/se/vasamuseets-vaenner/pressreleases/invitation-for-press-to-attend-a-media-day-22-october-test-firing-a-replica-of-the-swedish-warship-vasa-s-24-pounder-bronze-guns-1064562" rel="nofollow">http://www.mynewsdesk.com/se/vasamuseets-vaenner/pressreleases/invitation-for-press-to-attend-a-media-day-22-october-test-firing-a-replica-of-the-swedish-warship-vasa-s-24-pounder-bronze-guns-1064562</a></p><p>Update on the find of two cast-iron cannon in Vietnam some time ago - lots of pictures</p><p><a href="http://tuoitrenews.vn/lifestyle/22851/scrap-dealer-rewarded-for-giving-centuriesold-cannons-to-museum-in-central-vietnam" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://tuoitrenews.vn/lifestyle/22851/scrap-dealer-rewarded-for-giving-centuriesold-cannons-to-museum-in-central-vietnam" rel="nofollow">http://tuoitrenews.vn/lifestyle/22851/scrap-dealer-rewarded-for-giving-centuriesold-cannons-to-museum-in-central-vietnam</a></p><p>French cannon included in top ten 'portable'(!) finds</p><p><a href="http://www.culture24.org.uk/history-and-heritage/archaeology/art500690-ten-of-the-best-archaeological-discoveries-made-in-britain-by-the-portable-antiquities-scheme" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.culture24.org.uk/history-and-heritage/archaeology/art500690-ten-of-the-best-archaeological-discoveries-made-in-britain-by-the-portable-antiquities-scheme" rel="nofollow">http://www.culture24.org.uk/history-and-heritage/archaeology/art500690-ten-of-the-best-archaeological-discoveries-made-in-britain-by-the-portable-antiquities-scheme</a></p><p>Old cannon in Louisiana gets a new carriage, in time for the celebrations in New Orleans next year - video</p><p><a href="http://www.fox8live.com/story/26670354/an-old-cannon-gets-the-support-it-needs-to-impress-visitors" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.fox8live.com/story/26670354/an-old-cannon-gets-the-support-it-needs-to-impress-visitors" rel="nofollow">http://www.fox8live.com/story/26670354/an-old-cannon-gets-the-support-it-needs-to-impress-visitors</a></p><p>Putting a spoke into FortNegley’s new cannons..,</p><p><a href="http://www.fox17.com/news/features/top-stories/stories/organization-says-nashville-hurting-effort-bring-historic-cannons-ft-negley-sky-arnold-24013.shtml" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.fox17.com/news/features/top-stories/stories/organization-says-nashville-hurting-effort-bring-historic-cannons-ft-negley-sky-arnold-24013.shtml" rel="nofollow">http://www.fox17.com/news/features/top-stories/stories/organization-says-nashville-hurting-effort-bring-historic-cannons-ft-negley-sky-arnold-24013.shtml</a></p><p><b>Into the 20th century - mainly planes rising from the Deeps</b></p><p>Leeds Pals and German PoWs investigated in a small piece of Yorkshire</p><p><a href="http://www.culture24.org.uk/history-and-heritage/war-and-conflict/first-world-war/art500093-world-war-one-leeds-pals-village-and-german-prisoner-of-war-camp-rediscovered-by-archaeologists" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.culture24.org.uk/history-and-heritage/war-and-conflict/first-world-war/art500093-world-war-one-leeds-pals-village-and-german-prisoner-of-war-camp-rediscovered-by-archaeologists" rel="nofollow">http://www.culture24.org.uk/history-and-heritage/war-and-conflict/first-world-war/art500093-world-war-one-leeds-pals-village-and-german-prisoner-of-war-camp-rediscovered-by-archaeologists</a></p><p>Wreck of a Junkers 87 or Stuka found off the coast of Croatia</p><p><a href="http://artdaily.com/news/73286/Well-preserved-German-World-War-II-bomber-found-in-Croatia-s-central-Adriatic-#.VC0DG7AtCUk" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://artdaily.com/news/73286/Well-preserved-German-World-War-II-bomber-found-in-Croatia-s-central-Adriatic-#.VC0DG7AtCUk" rel="nofollow">http://artdaily.com/news/73286/Well-preserved-German-World-War-II-bomber-found-in-Croatia-s-central-Adriatic-#.VC0DG7AtCUk</a></p><p>Douglas A-20 raised from the Baltic</p><p><a href="http://www.portalmorski.pl/morze-inne/natura-badania-morza/38650-z-dna-balyku-wydobyto-wrak-amerykanskiego-bombowca-douglas-a-20" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.portalmorski.pl/morze-inne/natura-badania-morza/38650-z-dna-balyku-wydobyto-wrak-amerykanskiego-bombowca-douglas-a-20" rel="nofollow">http://www.portalmorski.pl/morze-inne/natura-badania-morza/38650-z-dna-balyku-wydobyto-wrak-amerykanskiego-bombowca-douglas-a-20</a></p><p>Translation here: <a href="http://forum.axishistory.com/viewtopic.php?f=62&p=1901230" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://forum.axishistory.com/viewtopic.php?f=62&p=1901230" rel="nofollow">http://forum.axishistory.com/viewtopic.php?f=62&p=1901230</a></p><p><b>Nautical news</b></p><p>Update on Antikythera wreck</p><p><a href="http://www.whoi.edu/news-release/antikythera-finds" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.whoi.edu/news-release/antikythera-finds" rel="nofollow">http://www.whoi.edu/news-release/antikythera-finds</a></p><p>One of Kublai Khan’s ships may have been found off Japan</p><p><a href="http://ajw.asahi.com/article/behind_news/social_affairs/AJ201410030034" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://ajw.asahi.com/article/behind_news/social_affairs/AJ201410030034" rel="nofollow">http://ajw.asahi.com/article/behind_news/social_affairs/AJ201410030034</a></p><p>The identification of the <i>Santa Maria</i> getting the thumbs down</p><p><a href="http://www.newsobserver.com/2014/09/26/4183211/official-wreck-off-haiti-likely.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.newsobserver.com/2014/09/26/4183211/official-wreck-off-haiti-likely.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.newsobserver.com/2014/09/26/4183211/official-wreck-off-haiti-likely.html</a>?</p><p><a href="http://www.philly.com/philly/wires/ap/news/nation_world/20140926_ap_f46f1460e60648d1a731ce989d1a3835.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.philly.com/philly/wires/ap/news/nation_world/20140926_ap_f46f1460e60648d1a731ce989d1a3835.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.philly.com/philly/wires/ap/news/nation_world/20140926_ap_f46f1460e60648d1a731ce989d1a3835.html</a></p><p><a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/archaeology/search-for-the-santa-maria-as-controversy-rages-unesco-launches-biggestever-mission-to-find-christopher-columbus-flagship-9778287.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/archaeology/search-for-the-santa-maria-as-controversy-rages-unesco-launches-biggestever-mission-to-find-christopher-columbus-flagship-9778287.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/archaeology/search-for-the-santa-maria-as-controversy-rages-unesco-launches-biggestever-mission-to-find-christopher-columbus-flagship-9778287.html</a></p><p>Official report is here</p><p><a href="http://www.unesco.org/new/fileadmin/MULTIMEDIA/HQ/CLT/images/Haiti-STAB-en.pdf" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.unesco.org/new/fileadmin/MULTIMEDIA/HQ/CLT/images/Haiti-STAB-en.pdf" rel="nofollow">http://www.unesco.org/new/fileadmin/MULTIMEDIA/HQ/CLT/images/Haiti-STAB-en.pdf</a></p><p>Well, they may not have found the resting place of the <i>Santa Maria</i>, but perhaps they have got where she sailed from: <a href="http://www.laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=2355320&CategoryId=12395" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=2355320&CategoryId=12395" rel="nofollow">http://www.laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=2355320&CategoryId=12395</a></p><p>Revisiting the <i>Mary Rose</i></p><p><a href="http://www.culture24.org.uk/history-and-heritage/archaeology/art500973-dive-for-missing-mary-rose-data-logger-to-be-held-by-marine-archaeologists-in-november" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.culture24.org.uk/history-and-heritage/archaeology/art500973-dive-for-missing-mary-rose-data-logger-to-be-held-by-marine-archaeologists-in-november" rel="nofollow">http://www.culture24.org.uk/history-and-heritage/archaeology/art500973-dive-for-missing-mary-rose-data-logger-to-be-held-by-marine-archaeologists-in-november</a></p><p>Update on recent work on the Gnalić shipwreck off the coast of Croatia</p><p><a href="http://www.kbtx.com/news/headlines/Texas-AM-Prof-Extracting-Secrets-From-431-Year-Old-Shipwreck-In-Croatia-277934121.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.kbtx.com/news/headlines/Texas-AM-Prof-Extracting-Secrets-From-431-Year-Old-Shipwreck-In-Croatia-277934121.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.kbtx.com/news/headlines/Texas-AM-Prof-Extracting-Secrets-From-431-Year-Old-Shipwreck-In-Croatia-277934121.html</a></p><p>Archaeologists hope to raise two more cannons from Blackbeard’s <i>Queen Anne’s Revenge</i>, North Carolina</p><p><a href="http://www.carolinacoastonline.com/news_times/article_e23b626a-4698-11e4-86c0-132c482e453f.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.carolinacoastonline.com/news_times/article_e23b626a-4698-11e4-86c0-132c482e453f.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.carolinacoastonline.com/news_times/article_e23b626a-4698-11e4-86c0-132c482e453f.html</a></p><p>Searching for Captain Cook’s <i>Endeavour</i>, off Rhode Island</p><p><a href="http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/search-launched-find-captain-cooks-long-lost-hms-endeavour-1469095" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/search-launched-find-captain-cooks-long-lost-hms-endeavour-1469095" rel="nofollow">http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/search-launched-find-captain-cooks-long-lost-hms-endeavour-1469095</a></p><p>Franklin ship identified as HMS <i>Erebus</i></p><p><a href="http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2014/10/01/franklin_expedition_ship_identified_as_hms_erebus.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2014/10/01/franklin_expedition_ship_identified_as_hms_erebus.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2014/10/01/franklin_expedition_ship_identified_as_hms_erebus.html</a></p><p>Divers complete first dive there</p><p><a href="http://www.nunatsiaqonline.ca/stories/article/65674parks_canada_completes_first_quick_survey_of_erebus_wreck/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.nunatsiaqonline.ca/stories/article/65674parks_canada_completes_first_quick_survey_of_erebus_wreck/" rel="nofollow">http://www.nunatsiaqonline.ca/stories/article/65674parks_canada_completes_first_quick_survey_of_erebus_wreck/</a></p><p><font size="5"><b>Museum news and exhibitions</b></font></p><p><font size="5"><b>News</b></font></p><p>Ashmolean Museum receives gift of collection of historic embroideries</p><p><a href="http://artdaily.com/news/73120/Ashmolean-acquires-major-collection-of-English-embroideries-from-Miche-l-and-Elizabeth-Feller#.VCUXxbAtCUk" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://artdaily.com/news/73120/Ashmolean-acquires-major-collection-of-English-embroideries-from-Miche-l-and-Elizabeth-Feller#.VCUXxbAtCUk" rel="nofollow">http://artdaily.com/news/73120/Ashmolean-acquires-major-collection-of-English-embroideries-from-Miche-l-and-Elizabeth-Feller#.VCUXxbAtCUk</a></p><p>Science Museum's Space Exhibition delayed by current events</p><p><a href="http://www.theartnewspaper.com/articles/Kensington-we-have-a-problem/35886" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.theartnewspaper.com/articles/Kensington-we-have-a-problem/35886" rel="nofollow">http://www.theartnewspaper.com/articles/Kensington-we-have-a-problem/35886</a></p><p>Met has difficulties trying to get loans for upcoming exhibition on the Seljuks</p><p><a href="http://www.theartnewspaper.com/articles/No-Turkish-loans-for-big-Met-show/35727" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.theartnewspaper.com/articles/No-Turkish-loans-for-big-Met-show/35727" rel="nofollow">http://www.theartnewspaper.com/articles/No-Turkish-loans-for-big-Met-show/35727</a></p><p><b>New museums </b></p><p>Opening of Jin State Museum of Antiquities (includes the new home of the chariot burials)</p><p><a href="http://www.china.org.cn/arts/2014-10/01/content_33668679.htm" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.china.org.cn/arts/2014-10/01/content_33668679.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.china.org.cn/arts/2014-10/01/content_33668679.htm</a></p><p><a href="http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/m/shanxi/2014-09/24/content_18655695.htm" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/m/shanxi/2014-09/24/content_18655695.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/m/shanxi/2014-09/24/content_18655695.htm</a></p><p>Plans for the new V&A East revealed</p><p><a href="http://www.theartnewspaper.com/articles/VA-East-could-be-vast/35879" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.theartnewspaper.com/articles/VA-East-could-be-vast/35879" rel="nofollow">http://www.theartnewspaper.com/articles/VA-East-could-be-vast/35879</a></p><p>Design released for the new Cambodia Museum of Genocide</p><p><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2014/oct/10/-sp-the-sleuk-rith-institute-zaha-hadid-cambodia-museum" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2014/oct/10/-sp-the-sleuk-rith-institute-zaha-hadid-cambodia-museum" rel="nofollow">http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2014/oct/10/-sp-the-sleuk-rith-institute-zaha-hadid-cambodia-museum</a></p><p>Article on Frank Gehry and designing new museums</p><p><a href="http://www.theartnewspaper.com/articles/Museum-directors-hated-Bilbao/35731" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.theartnewspaper.com/articles/Museum-directors-hated-Bilbao/35731" rel="nofollow">http://www.theartnewspaper.com/articles/Museum-directors-hated-Bilbao/35731</a></p><p><b>Museum developments</b></p><p>IMW putting together a digital history of US airmen in UK in WW2</p><p><a href="http://www.culture24.org.uk/history-and-heritage/war-and-conflict/world-war-two/art501052-imperial-war-museum-appeals-for-help-with-web-project-charting-history-of-wwii-american-airmen-in-england" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.culture24.org.uk/history-and-heritage/war-and-conflict/world-war-two/art501052-imperial-war-museum-appeals-for-help-with-web-project-charting-history-of-wwii-american-airmen-in-england" rel="nofollow">http://www.culture24.org.uk/history-and-heritage/war-and-conflict/world-war-two/art501052-imperial-war-museum-appeals-for-help-with-web-project-charting-history-of-wwii-american-airmen-in-england</a></p><p>RAF Museum is looking for a blogger</p><p><a href="http://www.culture24.org.uk/history-and-heritage/war-and-conflict/first-world-war/art501334-sky-the-limit-for-one-lucky-writer-as-raf-museum-announces-blogger-in-residence-post" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.culture24.org.uk/history-and-heritage/war-and-conflict/first-world-war/art501334-sky-the-limit-for-one-lucky-writer-as-raf-museum-announces-blogger-in-residence-post" rel="nofollow">http://www.culture24.org.uk/history-and-heritage/war-and-conflict/first-world-war/art501334-sky-the-limit-for-one-lucky-writer-as-raf-museum-announces-blogger-in-residence-post</a></p><p>Short film about armour and fighting in the 15th century from Geneva and Musee de Cluny</p><p>[MEDIA=youtube]5hlIUrd7d1Q[/MEDIA]</p><p>Nobel Prize for discovers of LED lightning - where would museums be without it?</p><p><a href="http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/10/07/the-long-bright-path-to-the-nobel-prize-for-led-lighting/?_php=true&_type=blogs&_r=0" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/10/07/the-long-bright-path-to-the-nobel-prize-for-led-lighting/?_php=true&_type=blogs&_r=0" rel="nofollow">http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/10/07/the-long-bright-path-to-the-nobel-prize-for-led-lighting/?_php=true&_type=blogs&_r=0</a></p><p><b>Conservation corner</b></p><p>Paying for 15th century masterpiece’s conservation - nice armour!</p><p><a href="http://artdaily.com/news/73146/Bank-of-America-Merril-Lynch-to-fund-restoration-of-altarpiece-by-the-Master-of-Fl-malle#.VCZ7N7AtCUk" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://artdaily.com/news/73146/Bank-of-America-Merril-Lynch-to-fund-restoration-of-altarpiece-by-the-Master-of-Fl-malle#.VCZ7N7AtCUk" rel="nofollow">http://artdaily.com/news/73146/Bank-of-America-Merril-Lynch-to-fund-restoration-of-altarpiece-by-the-Master-of-Fl-malle#.VCZ7N7AtCUk</a></p><p><b>Objects</b></p><p>Short history of wearing and use of knives in the USA:</p><p><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2014/09/23/heres-how-america-armed-itself-long-before-guns-became-a-political-issue/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2014/09/23/heres-how-america-armed-itself-long-before-guns-became-a-political-issue/" rel="nofollow">http://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2014/09/23/heres-how-america-armed-itself-long-before-guns-became-a-political-issue/</a></p><p>Box from ScotneyCastle reveals life of WWI officer</p><p><a href="http://www.culture24.org.uk/history-and-heritage/military-history/first-world-war/art502341" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.culture24.org.uk/history-and-heritage/military-history/first-world-war/art502341" rel="nofollow">http://www.culture24.org.uk/history-and-heritage/military-history/first-world-war/art502341</a></p><p>RAF’s Sopwith Camel flies into new display</p><p><a href="http://www.culture24.org.uk/history-and-heritage/war-and-conflict/first-world-war/art501309-raf-museums-sopwith-camel-flies-again-as-first-world-war-gallery-takes-shape" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.culture24.org.uk/history-and-heritage/war-and-conflict/first-world-war/art501309-raf-museums-sopwith-camel-flies-again-as-first-world-war-gallery-takes-shape" rel="nofollow">http://www.culture24.org.uk/history-and-heritage/war-and-conflict/first-world-war/art501309-raf-museums-sopwith-camel-flies-again-as-first-world-war-gallery-takes-shape</a></p><p>Turing’s machine to break the enigma code voted Top Invention</p><p><a href="http://www.culture24.org.uk/history-and-heritage/war-and-conflict/world-war-two/art501538-alan-turing-world-war-two-codebreaking-bombe-is-best-invention-says-institution-of-mechanical-engineers" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.culture24.org.uk/history-and-heritage/war-and-conflict/world-war-two/art501538-alan-turing-world-war-two-codebreaking-bombe-is-best-invention-says-institution-of-mechanical-engineers" rel="nofollow">http://www.culture24.org.uk/history-and-heritage/war-and-conflict/world-war-two/art501538-alan-turing-world-war-two-codebreaking-bombe-is-best-invention-says-institution-of-mechanical-engineers</a></p><p><b>Exhibitions</b></p><p>Sherlock Holmes coming to London soon</p><p><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/sep/29/sherlock-holmes-london-page-museum" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/sep/29/sherlock-holmes-london-page-museum" rel="nofollow">http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/sep/29/sherlock-holmes-london-page-museum</a></p><p>And John Singer Sargent in the spring.</p><p><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2014/sep/30/-sp-national-portrait-gallery-bid-save-john-singer-sargent-reputation" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2014/sep/30/-sp-national-portrait-gallery-bid-save-john-singer-sargent-reputation" rel="nofollow">http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2014/sep/30/-sp-national-portrait-gallery-bid-save-john-singer-sargent-reputation</a></p><p>Gothic in London (just in time for Hallowe’en)</p><p><a href="http://www.culture24.org.uk/history-and-heritage/literature-and-music/art501471-from-dracula-to-jack-the-ripper-british-library-terror-of-wonder-shines-light-on-darkness" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.culture24.org.uk/history-and-heritage/literature-and-music/art501471-from-dracula-to-jack-the-ripper-british-library-terror-of-wonder-shines-light-on-darkness" rel="nofollow">http://www.culture24.org.uk/history-and-heritage/literature-and-music/art501471-from-dracula-to-jack-the-ripper-british-library-terror-of-wonder-shines-light-on-darkness</a></p><p><a href="http://www.bl.uk/whatson/exhibitions/gothic/index.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.bl.uk/whatson/exhibitions/gothic/index.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.bl.uk/whatson/exhibitions/gothic/index.html</a></p><p>WWI comic art in Kendal</p><p><a href="http://artdaily.com/news/73474/Abbot-Hall-Art-Gallery-marks-centenary-of-the-outbreak-of-the-First-World-War-with-comics-exhibition#.VDd2grAtCUk" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://artdaily.com/news/73474/Abbot-Hall-Art-Gallery-marks-centenary-of-the-outbreak-of-the-First-World-War-with-comics-exhibition#.VDd2grAtCUk" rel="nofollow">http://artdaily.com/news/73474/Abbot-Hall-Art-Gallery-marks-centenary-of-the-outbreak-of-the-First-World-War-with-comics-exhibition#.VDd2grAtCUk</a></p><p>Fashion inspired by military history in Dublin</p><p><a href="http://www.museum.ie/en/exhibition/stitches-in-time.aspx" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.museum.ie/en/exhibition/stitches-in-time.aspx" rel="nofollow">http://www.museum.ie/en/exhibition/stitches-in-time.aspx</a></p><p>Dutch Golden age in Haarlem</p><p><a href="http://artdaily.com/news/73499/-Emotions--Pain-and-Pleasure-in-Dutch-Painting-of-the-Golden-Age--opens-at-the-Frans-Hals-Museum#.VDjxd7AtCUk" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://artdaily.com/news/73499/-Emotions--Pain-and-Pleasure-in-Dutch-Painting-of-the-Golden-Age--opens-at-the-Frans-Hals-Museum#.VDjxd7AtCUk" rel="nofollow">http://artdaily.com/news/73499/-Emotions--Pain-and-Pleasure-in-Dutch-Painting-of-the-Golden-Age--opens-at-the-Frans-Hals-Museum#.VDjxd7AtCUk</a></p><p>Medieval travels in Paris</p><p><a href="http://www.musee-moyenage.fr/activites/expositions/expositions-a-venir/exposition-voyager-au-moyen-age.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.musee-moyenage.fr/activites/expositions/expositions-a-venir/exposition-voyager-au-moyen-age.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.musee-moyenage.fr/activites/expositions/expositions-a-venir/exposition-voyager-au-moyen-age.html</a></p><p>Hokusai in Paris</p><p><a href="http://artdaily.com/news/73387/Exhibition-at-Grand-Palais-focuses-on-six-periods-in-Japanese-artist-Hokusai-career#.VDOyarAtCUk" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://artdaily.com/news/73387/Exhibition-at-Grand-Palais-focuses-on-six-periods-in-Japanese-artist-Hokusai-career#.VDOyarAtCUk" rel="nofollow">http://artdaily.com/news/73387/Exhibition-at-Grand-Palais-focuses-on-six-periods-in-Japanese-artist-Hokusai-career#.VDOyarAtCUk</a></p><p><a href="http://www.grandpalais.fr/fr/programmation?state=now" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.grandpalais.fr/fr/programmation?state=now" rel="nofollow">http://www.grandpalais.fr/fr/programmation?state=now</a></p><p><font size="5"><b>Velazquez in Vienna</b></font></p><p><font size="5"><b><a href="http://www.khm.at/besuchen/ausstellungen/velazquez/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.khm.at/besuchen/ausstellungen/velazquez/" rel="nofollow">http://www.khm.at/besuchen/ausstellungen/velazquez/</a></b></font></p><p>Sleazy Baroque paintings in Rome</p><p><a href="http://artdaily.com/news/73477/-The-Baroque-Underworld-Vice-and-Destitution-in-Rome--opens-at-Villa-Medici-in-Italy#.VDjxKbAtCUk" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://artdaily.com/news/73477/-The-Baroque-Underworld-Vice-and-Destitution-in-Rome--opens-at-Villa-Medici-in-Italy#.VDjxKbAtCUk" rel="nofollow">http://artdaily.com/news/73477/-The-Baroque-Underworld-Vice-and-Destitution-in-Rome--opens-at-Villa-Medici-in-Italy#.VDjxKbAtCUk</a></p><p><font size="5"><b>Books</b></font></p><p>Helen Castor: <b><i>Joan of Arc</i></b></p><p><a href="http://www.faber.co.uk/shop/general-non-fiction/biography-memoir/9780571284627-joan-of-arc.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.faber.co.uk/shop/general-non-fiction/biography-memoir/9780571284627-joan-of-arc.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.faber.co.uk/shop/general-non-fiction/biography-memoir/9780571284627-joan-of-arc.html</a></p><p>New book about pirates, treasure and the Pope in 14th century Europe</p><p><a href="http://www.livescience.com/48067-pirate-tale-revealed-in-vatican-archives.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.livescience.com/48067-pirate-tale-revealed-in-vatican-archives.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.livescience.com/48067-pirate-tale-revealed-in-vatican-archives.html</a></p><p>Koert van der Horst: <b><i>Great Books on Horsemanship</i></b></p><p><a href="http://www.brill.com/products/book/great-books-horsemanship-0" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.brill.com/products/book/great-books-horsemanship-0" rel="nofollow">http://www.brill.com/products/book/great-books-horsemanship-0</a></p><p><b><i>Scientific Instruments on Display</i></b>, Edited by Silke Ackermann, <i>Museum of the History of Science</i>; Richard L. Kremer, <i>Dartmouth College</i> and Mara Miniati, <i>Museo Galileo</i></p><p><a href="http://www.brill.com/products/book/scientific-instruments-display" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.brill.com/products/book/scientific-instruments-display" rel="nofollow">http://www.brill.com/products/book/scientific-instruments-display</a></p><p><font size="6"><b>Patrick Leigh Fermor<b><i>: Abducting a General: The Kreipe Operation and SOE in Crete</i></b></b></font></p><p><a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Abducting-General-Kreipe-Operation-Crete/dp/1444799886/ref=sr_1_7?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1412839495&sr=1-7&keywords=fermor" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Abducting-General-Kreipe-Operation-Crete/dp/1444799886/ref=sr_1_7?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1412839495&sr=1-7&keywords=fermor" rel="nofollow">http://www.amazon.co.uk/Abducting-General-Kreipe-Operation-Crete/dp/1444799886/ref=sr_1_7?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1412839495&sr=1-7&keywords=fermor</a></p><p>Latest catalogue from Westholme books</p><p><a href="http://www.westholmepublishing.com/new-and-forthcoming-books.php" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.westholmepublishing.com/new-and-forthcoming-books.php" rel="nofollow">http://www.westholmepublishing.com/new-and-forthcoming-books.php</a></p><p><b>Online Book</b></p><p>Theodore T. Belote: <b><i>American and European Swords in the Historical Collections of the United StatesNationalMuseum</i></b> (1932)</p><p><a href="https://repository.si.edu/handle/10088/10007" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://repository.si.edu/handle/10088/10007" rel="nofollow">https://repository.si.edu/handle/10088/10007</a></p><p><font size="5"><b>Popular Culture</b></font></p><p><b><i>Imitation Game</i></b> hoving into view</p><p><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/film/2014/oct/08/alan-turing-film-imitation-game" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.theguardian.com/film/2014/oct/08/alan-turing-film-imitation-game" rel="nofollow">http://www.theguardian.com/film/2014/oct/08/alan-turing-film-imitation-game</a></p><p>Netflix sponsoring sequel to <b><i>Crouching Tiger, Hidden dragon</i></b> with Michelle Yeoh and Donnie Yen, for release next summer</p><p><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2014/09/30/crouching-tiger-sequel-will-be-released-on-netflix-and-imax-simultaneously/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2014/09/30/crouching-tiger-sequel-will-be-released-on-netflix-and-imax-simultaneously/" rel="nofollow">http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2014/09/30/crouching-tiger-sequel-will-be-released-on-netflix-and-imax-simultaneously/</a></p><p>Film of <b><i>Dad’s Army</i></b> with a glittering cast announced</p><p><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/film/2014/oct/08/alan-turing-film-imitation-game" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.theguardian.com/film/2014/oct/08/alan-turing-film-imitation-game" rel="nofollow">http://www.theguardian.com/film/2014/oct/08/alan-turing-film-imitation-game</a></p><p><b>Events</b></p><p><b>Diary Dates</b></p><p><a href="https://sites.google.com/site/hbsauk/HBSA-calendar" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://sites.google.com/site/hbsauk/HBSA-calendar" rel="nofollow">https://sites.google.com/site/hbsauk/HBSA-calendar</a></p><p><a href="http://www.hgm.at/de/museum.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.hgm.at/de/museum.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.hgm.at/de/museum.html</a></p><p><a href="http://livrustkammaren.se/sv" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://livrustkammaren.se/sv" rel="nofollow">http://livrustkammaren.se/sv</a></p><p><b>Sales Fairs and auctions</b></p><p>Winston Churchill sale coming up in December</p><p><a href="http://artdaily.com/news/73450/Sotheby-s-London-to-offer-select-personal-possessions-of-the-last-of-Winston-Churchill-s-children#.VDZDkrAtCUk" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://artdaily.com/news/73450/Sotheby-s-London-to-offer-select-personal-possessions-of-the-last-of-Winston-Churchill-s-children#.VDZDkrAtCUk" rel="nofollow">http://artdaily.com/news/73450/Sotheby-s-London-to-offer-select-personal-possessions-of-the-last-of-Winston-Churchill-s-children#.VDZDkrAtCUk</a></p><p>27 Oct 2014 New York,</p><p>Arts of the Samurai</p><p><a href="http://www.bonhams.com/auctions/22248/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.bonhams.com/auctions/22248/" rel="nofollow">http://www.bonhams.com/auctions/22248/</a></p><p><a href="http://artdaily.com/news/73427/On-point--The-4th-Annual-Arts-of-the-Samurai-Auction-set-to-engulf-Bonhams-New-York#.VDTpVrAtCUk" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://artdaily.com/news/73427/On-point--The-4th-Annual-Arts-of-the-Samurai-Auction-set-to-engulf-Bonhams-New-York#.VDTpVrAtCUk" rel="nofollow">http://artdaily.com/news/73427/On-point--The-4th-Annual-Arts-of-the-Samurai-Auction-set-to-engulf-Bonhams-New-York#.VDTpVrAtCUk</a></p><p>3–8 November and 8-13December 2014</p><p>Catalogues have gone online</p><p><a href="http://www.hermann-historica.de/db2_en/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.hermann-historica.de/db2_en/" rel="nofollow">http://www.hermann-historica.de/db2_en/</a></p><p><b>Websites and downloads</b></p><p>Medieval arrow?</p><p>[MEDIA=youtube]hTotQso20es[/MEDIA]</p><p>Virtual visit to the CIA's very own museum</p><p><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/shortcuts/2014/oct/06/virtual-tour-cia-museum" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/shortcuts/2014/oct/06/virtual-tour-cia-museum" rel="nofollow">http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/shortcuts/2014/oct/06/virtual-tour-cia-museum</a></p><p><a href="https://www.cia.gov/about-cia/cia-museum/experience-the-collection/index.html#!/collection" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cia.gov/about-cia/cia-museum/experience-the-collection/index.html#!/collection" rel="nofollow">https://www.cia.gov/about-cia/cia-museum/experience-the-collection/index.html#!/collection</a></p><p><b>1066 etc</b></p><p>Chivalric orders, royal households and Holy War</p><p><a href="http://www.medievalists.net/2014/10/05/sword-brothers-war-observations-military-activity-knighthood-christ-conquest-livonia-estonia-1203-1227/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.medievalists.net/2014/10/05/sword-brothers-war-observations-military-activity-knighthood-christ-conquest-livonia-estonia-1203-1227/" rel="nofollow">http://www.medievalists.net/2014/10/05/sword-brothers-war-observations-military-activity-knighthood-christ-conquest-livonia-estonia-1203-1227/</a></p><p><a href="http://www.medievalists.net/2014/10/07/serving-man-ruled-aspects-domestic-arrangements-household-king-john-1199-1216/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.medievalists.net/2014/10/07/serving-man-ruled-aspects-domestic-arrangements-household-king-john-1199-1216/" rel="nofollow">http://www.medievalists.net/2014/10/07/serving-man-ruled-aspects-domestic-arrangements-household-king-john-1199-1216/</a></p><p><a href="http://www.medievalists.net/2014/10/04/constructing-memory-holy-war-chronicle-poles-bishop-vincentius-cracow/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.medievalists.net/2014/10/04/constructing-memory-holy-war-chronicle-poles-bishop-vincentius-cracow/" rel="nofollow">http://www.medievalists.net/2014/10/04/constructing-memory-holy-war-chronicle-poles-bishop-vincentius-cracow/</a></p><p><b>Finally</b></p><p>We are putting together the next ICOMAM MAGAZINE, if you anything for it, please us know. You can read past editions here:</p><p><a href="http://www.icomam.be/magazine.php" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.icomam.be/magazine.php" rel="nofollow">http://www.icomam.be/magazine.php</a></p><p>This fortnight my picture of Stonehenge in a storm proved popular</p><p><a href="https://twitter.com/Basiliscoe" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://twitter.com/Basiliscoe" rel="nofollow">https://twitter.com/Basiliscoe</a></p><p><b>Compiled by Ruth Rhynas Brown – 12 October 2014</b></p><p>Some people have asked me about making a contribution to the Newsletter – if you would like to support us, you can make a donation here through our Paypal account – see here for details:</p><p><a href="http://www.basiliscoe.com/id2.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.basiliscoe.com/id2.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.basiliscoe.com/id2.html</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="springfld.arsenal, post: 21271, member: 54"][SIZE=6][B][B]The Basiliscoe Mercury [/B][/B][/SIZE] [B]The[/B] [B]Internet newsletter for the arms and armour community[/B] Roman helmets, dead monarchs, Smithsonian sword catalogue and a request for contributions for the next ICOMAM MAGAZINE [B]Arms and armour in the news Ancient arms[/B] Earliest cave paintings found in Indonesia [url]http://www.theguardian.com/science/2014/oct/08/cave-art-indonesia-sulawesi[/url] [MEDIA=youtube]ZVEqkVDn6Y4[/MEDIA] Princely grave from Bronze Age Murcia - no pictures [url]http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/10/141008101410.htm[/url] Flint dagger with wooden hilt found in Lolland, Denmark - picture [url]http://cphpost.dk/news/rare-bronze-age-knife-discovered-in-southern-zealand.11165.html[/url] [B]Battles, towers and forts[/B] Possible head of the goddess Brigantia found in Roman fort at South Shields [url]http://www.culture24.org.uk/history-and-heritage/archaeology/art502126-archaeologists-find-statuette-head-of-northern-goddess-at-arbeia-roman-fort[/url] Canterbury’s Roman helmet goes on display - fascinating story! [url]http://www.culture24.org.uk/history-and-heritage/archaeology/art501336-iron-age-roman-helmet-used-as-container-for-cremation-goes-on-display-in-kent[/url] [url]http://www.culture24.org.uk/history-and-heritage/archaeology/art411288[/url] Investigating a Roman camp in Bulgaria unearths many finds [url]http://www.naukawpolsce.pap.pl/en/news/news,401982,numerous-finds-in-a-roman-camp.html[/url] Ancient warriors liked nothing better than sitting down doing their nails and titivating their hairdos [url]http://sciencenordic.com/ancient-male-warriors-showed-signs-vanity[/url] Update on the Finnish discovery of swordsman’ grave a few month back [url]http://yle.fi/uutiset/ancient_swordsmans_grave_could_hold_many_more_secrets/7495913[/url] [B]Grave stories[/B] This week’s candidate for looking-for a-dead-monarch-1 Philip of Macedonia [url]http://news.discovery.com/history/archaeology/remains-of-alexander-the-greats-father-confirmed-found-141009.htm[/url] This week’s candidate for looking-for a-dead-monarch-2 King Harold [url]http://www.culture24.org.uk/history-and-heritage/war-and-conflict/pre-20th-century-conflict/art500890-was-king-harold-buried-at-waltham-abbey-years-after-the-battle-of-hastings-ground-scan-could-reveal-all[/url] [url]http://www.guardian-series.co.uk/news/efnews/11501908._/[/url] Moving piece about recently identified Canadian soldiers who died at the Somme [url]http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/wwi-canadian-soldiers-remains-identified-1.2779824[/url] Something for fans of this section to put on Christmas list[B][I]: Forensics[/I][/B] by Val McDermid [url]http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/sep/26/val-mcdermid-extract-forensics-the-anatomy-of-crime[/url] [B]Middle-east updates[/B] Ritual baths and WW2 Australian graffiti in Israel - great research! [url]http://www.antiquities.org.il/article_eng.aspx?sec_id=25&subj_id=240[/url] Lists of cultural artefact casualties in Syria being made available [url]http://www.theartnewspaper.com/articles/Antiquities-collections-destroyed-in-Gaza-conflict/35883[/url] [SIZE=5][B]Through the arrow-slit . . . [/B][/SIZE] Medieval castle found under school in Ross-on-Wye [url]http://www.herefordtimes.com/news/11497427.Ancient_stone_castle_found_under_school/[/url] Investigating Dracula’s castle, Tokat, in northern Turkey [url]http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/draculas-dungeon-discovered-by-archaeologists-tokat-castle-turkey-1467632[/url] [B]Back to the front[/B] Sir Ranulf Fiennes has his say on Agincourt [url]http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2771440/The-day-chivalry-died-mire-Think-skilled-archery-won-battle-Agincourt-Wrong-slaughter-2-000-French-POWs-says-Sir-Ranulph-Fiennes-ancestors-fought-sides.html[/url] One last survey and dig at Flodden this year before winter sets in… [url]http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-south-scotland-29474387[/url] New developments offer a chance to investigate Annapolis’s Civil war History [url]http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/anne-arundel/annapolis/bs-md-ar-camp-parole-20140923,0,652812,full.story[/url] [SIZE=5][B]Cannons to the left, cannon to the right[/B][/SIZE] Vasa’s replica cannon to be proofed [url]http://www.mynewsdesk.com/se/vasamuseets-vaenner/pressreleases/invitation-for-press-to-attend-a-media-day-22-october-test-firing-a-replica-of-the-swedish-warship-vasa-s-24-pounder-bronze-guns-1064562[/url] Update on the find of two cast-iron cannon in Vietnam some time ago - lots of pictures [url]http://tuoitrenews.vn/lifestyle/22851/scrap-dealer-rewarded-for-giving-centuriesold-cannons-to-museum-in-central-vietnam[/url] French cannon included in top ten 'portable'(!) finds [url]http://www.culture24.org.uk/history-and-heritage/archaeology/art500690-ten-of-the-best-archaeological-discoveries-made-in-britain-by-the-portable-antiquities-scheme[/url] Old cannon in Louisiana gets a new carriage, in time for the celebrations in New Orleans next year - video [url]http://www.fox8live.com/story/26670354/an-old-cannon-gets-the-support-it-needs-to-impress-visitors[/url] Putting a spoke into FortNegley’s new cannons.., [url]http://www.fox17.com/news/features/top-stories/stories/organization-says-nashville-hurting-effort-bring-historic-cannons-ft-negley-sky-arnold-24013.shtml[/url] [B]Into the 20th century - mainly planes rising from the Deeps[/B] Leeds Pals and German PoWs investigated in a small piece of Yorkshire [url]http://www.culture24.org.uk/history-and-heritage/war-and-conflict/first-world-war/art500093-world-war-one-leeds-pals-village-and-german-prisoner-of-war-camp-rediscovered-by-archaeologists[/url] Wreck of a Junkers 87 or Stuka found off the coast of Croatia [url]http://artdaily.com/news/73286/Well-preserved-German-World-War-II-bomber-found-in-Croatia-s-central-Adriatic-#.VC0DG7AtCUk[/url] Douglas A-20 raised from the Baltic [url]http://www.portalmorski.pl/morze-inne/natura-badania-morza/38650-z-dna-balyku-wydobyto-wrak-amerykanskiego-bombowca-douglas-a-20[/url] Translation here: [url]http://forum.axishistory.com/viewtopic.php?f=62&p=1901230[/url] [B]Nautical news[/B] Update on Antikythera wreck [url]http://www.whoi.edu/news-release/antikythera-finds[/url] One of Kublai Khan’s ships may have been found off Japan [url]http://ajw.asahi.com/article/behind_news/social_affairs/AJ201410030034[/url] The identification of the [I]Santa Maria[/I] getting the thumbs down [url]http://www.newsobserver.com/2014/09/26/4183211/official-wreck-off-haiti-likely.html[/url]? [url]http://www.philly.com/philly/wires/ap/news/nation_world/20140926_ap_f46f1460e60648d1a731ce989d1a3835.html[/url] [url]http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/archaeology/search-for-the-santa-maria-as-controversy-rages-unesco-launches-biggestever-mission-to-find-christopher-columbus-flagship-9778287.html[/url] Official report is here [url]http://www.unesco.org/new/fileadmin/MULTIMEDIA/HQ/CLT/images/Haiti-STAB-en.pdf[/url] Well, they may not have found the resting place of the [I]Santa Maria[/I], but perhaps they have got where she sailed from: [url]http://www.laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=2355320&CategoryId=12395[/url] Revisiting the [I]Mary Rose[/I] [url]http://www.culture24.org.uk/history-and-heritage/archaeology/art500973-dive-for-missing-mary-rose-data-logger-to-be-held-by-marine-archaeologists-in-november[/url] Update on recent work on the Gnalić shipwreck off the coast of Croatia [url]http://www.kbtx.com/news/headlines/Texas-AM-Prof-Extracting-Secrets-From-431-Year-Old-Shipwreck-In-Croatia-277934121.html[/url] Archaeologists hope to raise two more cannons from Blackbeard’s [I]Queen Anne’s Revenge[/I], North Carolina [url]http://www.carolinacoastonline.com/news_times/article_e23b626a-4698-11e4-86c0-132c482e453f.html[/url] Searching for Captain Cook’s [I]Endeavour[/I], off Rhode Island [url]http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/search-launched-find-captain-cooks-long-lost-hms-endeavour-1469095[/url] Franklin ship identified as HMS [I]Erebus[/I] [url]http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2014/10/01/franklin_expedition_ship_identified_as_hms_erebus.html[/url] Divers complete first dive there [url]http://www.nunatsiaqonline.ca/stories/article/65674parks_canada_completes_first_quick_survey_of_erebus_wreck/[/url] [SIZE=5][B]Museum news and exhibitions[/B] [B]News[/B][/SIZE] Ashmolean Museum receives gift of collection of historic embroideries [url]http://artdaily.com/news/73120/Ashmolean-acquires-major-collection-of-English-embroideries-from-Miche-l-and-Elizabeth-Feller#.VCUXxbAtCUk[/url] Science Museum's Space Exhibition delayed by current events [url]http://www.theartnewspaper.com/articles/Kensington-we-have-a-problem/35886[/url] Met has difficulties trying to get loans for upcoming exhibition on the Seljuks [url]http://www.theartnewspaper.com/articles/No-Turkish-loans-for-big-Met-show/35727[/url] [B]New museums [/B] Opening of Jin State Museum of Antiquities (includes the new home of the chariot burials) [url]http://www.china.org.cn/arts/2014-10/01/content_33668679.htm[/url] [url]http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/m/shanxi/2014-09/24/content_18655695.htm[/url] Plans for the new V&A East revealed [url]http://www.theartnewspaper.com/articles/VA-East-could-be-vast/35879[/url] Design released for the new Cambodia Museum of Genocide [url]http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2014/oct/10/-sp-the-sleuk-rith-institute-zaha-hadid-cambodia-museum[/url] Article on Frank Gehry and designing new museums [url]http://www.theartnewspaper.com/articles/Museum-directors-hated-Bilbao/35731[/url] [B]Museum developments[/B] IMW putting together a digital history of US airmen in UK in WW2 [url]http://www.culture24.org.uk/history-and-heritage/war-and-conflict/world-war-two/art501052-imperial-war-museum-appeals-for-help-with-web-project-charting-history-of-wwii-american-airmen-in-england[/url] RAF Museum is looking for a blogger [url]http://www.culture24.org.uk/history-and-heritage/war-and-conflict/first-world-war/art501334-sky-the-limit-for-one-lucky-writer-as-raf-museum-announces-blogger-in-residence-post[/url] Short film about armour and fighting in the 15th century from Geneva and Musee de Cluny [MEDIA=youtube]5hlIUrd7d1Q[/MEDIA] Nobel Prize for discovers of LED lightning - where would museums be without it? [url]http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/10/07/the-long-bright-path-to-the-nobel-prize-for-led-lighting/?_php=true&_type=blogs&_r=0[/url] [B]Conservation corner[/B] Paying for 15th century masterpiece’s conservation - nice armour! [url]http://artdaily.com/news/73146/Bank-of-America-Merril-Lynch-to-fund-restoration-of-altarpiece-by-the-Master-of-Fl-malle#.VCZ7N7AtCUk[/url] [B]Objects[/B] Short history of wearing and use of knives in the USA: [url]http://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2014/09/23/heres-how-america-armed-itself-long-before-guns-became-a-political-issue/[/url] Box from ScotneyCastle reveals life of WWI officer [url]http://www.culture24.org.uk/history-and-heritage/military-history/first-world-war/art502341[/url] RAF’s Sopwith Camel flies into new display [url]http://www.culture24.org.uk/history-and-heritage/war-and-conflict/first-world-war/art501309-raf-museums-sopwith-camel-flies-again-as-first-world-war-gallery-takes-shape[/url] Turing’s machine to break the enigma code voted Top Invention [url]http://www.culture24.org.uk/history-and-heritage/war-and-conflict/world-war-two/art501538-alan-turing-world-war-two-codebreaking-bombe-is-best-invention-says-institution-of-mechanical-engineers[/url] [B]Exhibitions[/B] Sherlock Holmes coming to London soon [url]http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/sep/29/sherlock-holmes-london-page-museum[/url] And John Singer Sargent in the spring. [url]http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2014/sep/30/-sp-national-portrait-gallery-bid-save-john-singer-sargent-reputation[/url] Gothic in London (just in time for Hallowe’en) [url]http://www.culture24.org.uk/history-and-heritage/literature-and-music/art501471-from-dracula-to-jack-the-ripper-british-library-terror-of-wonder-shines-light-on-darkness[/url] [url]http://www.bl.uk/whatson/exhibitions/gothic/index.html[/url] WWI comic art in Kendal [url]http://artdaily.com/news/73474/Abbot-Hall-Art-Gallery-marks-centenary-of-the-outbreak-of-the-First-World-War-with-comics-exhibition#.VDd2grAtCUk[/url] Fashion inspired by military history in Dublin [url]http://www.museum.ie/en/exhibition/stitches-in-time.aspx[/url] Dutch Golden age in Haarlem [url]http://artdaily.com/news/73499/-Emotions--Pain-and-Pleasure-in-Dutch-Painting-of-the-Golden-Age--opens-at-the-Frans-Hals-Museum#.VDjxd7AtCUk[/url] Medieval travels in Paris [url]http://www.musee-moyenage.fr/activites/expositions/expositions-a-venir/exposition-voyager-au-moyen-age.html[/url] Hokusai in Paris [url]http://artdaily.com/news/73387/Exhibition-at-Grand-Palais-focuses-on-six-periods-in-Japanese-artist-Hokusai-career#.VDOyarAtCUk[/url] [url]http://www.grandpalais.fr/fr/programmation?state=now[/url] [SIZE=5][B]Velazquez in Vienna[/B] [B][url]http://www.khm.at/besuchen/ausstellungen/velazquez/[/url][/B][/SIZE] Sleazy Baroque paintings in Rome [url]http://artdaily.com/news/73477/-The-Baroque-Underworld-Vice-and-Destitution-in-Rome--opens-at-Villa-Medici-in-Italy#.VDjxKbAtCUk[/url] [SIZE=5][B]Books[/B][/SIZE] Helen Castor: [B][I]Joan of Arc[/I][/B] [url]http://www.faber.co.uk/shop/general-non-fiction/biography-memoir/9780571284627-joan-of-arc.html[/url] New book about pirates, treasure and the Pope in 14th century Europe [url]http://www.livescience.com/48067-pirate-tale-revealed-in-vatican-archives.html[/url] Koert van der Horst: [B][I]Great Books on Horsemanship[/I][/B] [url]http://www.brill.com/products/book/great-books-horsemanship-0[/url] [B][I]Scientific Instruments on Display[/I][/B], Edited by Silke Ackermann, [I]Museum of the History of Science[/I]; Richard L. Kremer, [I]Dartmouth College[/I] and Mara Miniati, [I]Museo Galileo[/I] [url]http://www.brill.com/products/book/scientific-instruments-display[/url] [SIZE=6][B]Patrick Leigh Fermor[B][I]: Abducting a General: The Kreipe Operation and SOE in Crete[/I][/B][/B][/SIZE] [url]http://www.amazon.co.uk/Abducting-General-Kreipe-Operation-Crete/dp/1444799886/ref=sr_1_7?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1412839495&sr=1-7&keywords=fermor[/url] Latest catalogue from Westholme books [url]http://www.westholmepublishing.com/new-and-forthcoming-books.php[/url] [B]Online Book[/B] Theodore T. Belote: [B][I]American and European Swords in the Historical Collections of the United StatesNationalMuseum[/I][/B] (1932) [url]https://repository.si.edu/handle/10088/10007[/url] [SIZE=5][B]Popular Culture[/B][/SIZE] [B][I]Imitation Game[/I][/B] hoving into view [url]http://www.theguardian.com/film/2014/oct/08/alan-turing-film-imitation-game[/url] Netflix sponsoring sequel to [B][I]Crouching Tiger, Hidden dragon[/I][/B] with Michelle Yeoh and Donnie Yen, for release next summer [url]http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2014/09/30/crouching-tiger-sequel-will-be-released-on-netflix-and-imax-simultaneously/[/url] Film of [B][I]Dad’s Army[/I][/B] with a glittering cast announced [url]http://www.theguardian.com/film/2014/oct/08/alan-turing-film-imitation-game[/url] [B]Events Diary Dates[/B] [url]https://sites.google.com/site/hbsauk/HBSA-calendar[/url] [url]http://www.hgm.at/de/museum.html[/url] [url]http://livrustkammaren.se/sv[/url] [B]Sales Fairs and auctions[/B] Winston Churchill sale coming up in December [url]http://artdaily.com/news/73450/Sotheby-s-London-to-offer-select-personal-possessions-of-the-last-of-Winston-Churchill-s-children#.VDZDkrAtCUk[/url] 27 Oct 2014 New York, Arts of the Samurai [url]http://www.bonhams.com/auctions/22248/[/url] [url]http://artdaily.com/news/73427/On-point--The-4th-Annual-Arts-of-the-Samurai-Auction-set-to-engulf-Bonhams-New-York#.VDTpVrAtCUk[/url] 3–8 November and 8-13December 2014 Catalogues have gone online [url]http://www.hermann-historica.de/db2_en/[/url] [B]Websites and downloads[/B] Medieval arrow? [MEDIA=youtube]hTotQso20es[/MEDIA] Virtual visit to the CIA's very own museum [url]http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/shortcuts/2014/oct/06/virtual-tour-cia-museum[/url] [url]https://www.cia.gov/about-cia/cia-museum/experience-the-collection/index.html#!/collection[/url] [B]1066 etc[/B] Chivalric orders, royal households and Holy War [url]http://www.medievalists.net/2014/10/05/sword-brothers-war-observations-military-activity-knighthood-christ-conquest-livonia-estonia-1203-1227/[/url] [url]http://www.medievalists.net/2014/10/07/serving-man-ruled-aspects-domestic-arrangements-household-king-john-1199-1216/[/url] [url]http://www.medievalists.net/2014/10/04/constructing-memory-holy-war-chronicle-poles-bishop-vincentius-cracow/[/url] [B]Finally[/B] We are putting together the next ICOMAM MAGAZINE, if you anything for it, please us know. You can read past editions here: [url]http://www.icomam.be/magazine.php[/url] This fortnight my picture of Stonehenge in a storm proved popular [url]https://twitter.com/Basiliscoe[/url] [B]Compiled by Ruth Rhynas Brown – 12 October 2014[/B] Some people have asked me about making a contribution to the Newsletter – if you would like to support us, you can make a donation here through our Paypal account – see here for details: [url]http://www.basiliscoe.com/id2.html[/url][/QUOTE]
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