The Basiliscoe Mercury 263

The Basiliscoe Mercury 263


TheInternet newsletter for the arms and armour community


Most interesting reading this week is about the updating of armours in Velasquez’s royal portraits. Otherwise we have 16th century wrecks off the US, a submarine off Wales, Josephine’s wardrobe, the Army Museum’s new displays & prize-winning books. Finally a beautiful article on the Almain Armourers Album- a real treat.



Arms and armour in the news


Ancient arms


Setting fire to Iron Age hill forts

http://www.pasthorizonspr.com/index...ry-demise-of-a-vitrified-hillfort-in-scotland


How to drive a Roman chariot

http://www.seeker.com/secret-of-roman-race-chariots-found-2187581176.html


Fragments of armour and weapons found in Montfort Castle of the Teutonic Knights

http://www.haaretz.com/archaeology/1.763930


Trellech - a medieval Welsh weapons factory?

https://www.washinhttp://popular-archaeology.com/issu...climate-change-wiped-out-australian-megafauna


Medieval horse head found in the Colosseum

http://www.thelocal.it/20170119/archaeologists-just-found-a-medieval-horses-head-at-the-colossseum


Rewilding the Auruch

http://edition.cnn.com/2017/01/09/world/auroch-rewilding/index.html


Grave stories


Studying the graves from the Jacobin convent- possibly not to be read with breakfast

http://artdaily.com/news/93084/In-R...w-vision-of-the-history-of-death#.WHyLhDGml9A


Through the arrow-slit . . .


Worry over future (or even survival) of Crac de Chevaliers

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articl...-chevaliers-survive-the-syrian-civil-war.html


Tower houses in Scotland and Ireland

http://www.medievalists.net/2017/01/tower-house-castle-not-fit-king/


The fate of Rattray Castle- a warning not to play cards on a Sunday

http://www.scotsman.com/heritage/pe...tle-that-disappeared-in-a-sandstorm-1-4337084


Cannons to the left, cannon to the right


Casting pit found in the Kremlin- pictures

https://realnoevremya.com/galhttp://www.guns.com/2017/01/13/vmis-historic-cannon-battery-returned-after-refit-photos/


An official cannon for Texas?

http://dfw.cbslocal.com/2017/01/16/texas-senator-wants-cannon-to-be-official-gun-for-the-state/


Back to the front


Archaeologists and metal detectorists find common ground over the Pequot War of 1637

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/16/scienchttp://www.cecildaily.com/our_cecil/article_949abecb-70f3-53ce-9f83-8ba9bce3http://www.kentlive.news/8203-take-...ndoned-forts/story-30062436-detail/story.html


Civil War trench investigated in Fredericksburg

http://www.archaeology.org/news/5201-170113-virginia-fredericksburg-trench


Café Basiliscoe


Smoked goat, Stone Age style

https://phys.org/news/2017-01-iceman-oetzi-meal-stone-age.html


Roasting pit's 1600 year old meat ready soon….

http://globalnews.ca/news/3179491/r...year-old-roasting-pit-with-meal-still-inside/


Into the 20th century


The heroic Polish artillery bear (and Edinburgh Zoo)

http://bit.ly/2jACxHr

http://dailycampus.com/stories/2017/1/18/weird-wednesdays-the-heroic-polish-artihttp://www.tcpalm.com/story/news/lo...acuated-wwii-torpedo-moved-offshore/96709044/


World Heritage


Article about 19th century photographs of Korea

https://www.10mag.com/scaling-seouls-ancient-walls-in-the-1880s/


Isis destroys tetrapylon monument in Palmyra https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jan/20/isis-destroys-tetrapylon-monumhttp://www.deccanherhttp://www.livescience.com/57493-photos-spanish-colony-shipwreck.html

http://www.livescience.com/57496-16th-century-spanish-shipwreck-off-florida.html


And 16th century wreck off Florida?

http://www.mypalmbeachpost.com/news...-artificial-reef-site/wgeZTgU3BJmooBkMmEY1VO/


Update on Cape Fear River cannon

https://portcitydaily.com/2017/01/1...cannon-begins-at-brunswick-townfort-anderson/


New images of Resurgam submarine

http://www.dailypost.co.uk/news/north-wales-news/resurgam-rhyl-submarine-sub-aqua-12483324


Survey of HMS Vanguard, veteran of Jutland, undertaken

http://www.nwemail.co.uk/news/barro...-time-3e931153-ca22-4493-abcb-8156e0fd82b2-ds



Museum news and exhibitions


News


Preserving Auschwitz for future generations http://artdaily.com/news/93021/Unpr...hwitz-to-preserve-Holocaust-site#.WHoQvjGml9A


The future of Britain’s regimental museums’ funding

http://www.museumsassociation.org/m...12016-regimental-museums-prepare-for-mod-cuts


Redeveloped National Army Museum to open in March

http://www.nam.ac.uk/new-museum/mus...nounces-museum-opening-date?utm_source=Direct


Museum developments


Exercising and museum visiting combined (and in Vogue, too!)

http://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/burning-calories-at-the-met

http://www.vogue.com/13522703/metro...seum-workout-new-york-met-monica-bill-barnes/


The importance of history in China

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2...ooks-to-extend-sino-japanese-war-by-six-years


Conservation corner


Faking the Terracotta Army

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-news-from-elsewhere-38598577


A very intriguing read for armour historians! Velázquez and armour in portraits

http://theartnewspaper.com/news/conservation/is-the-ringling-s-vel-zquez-the-real-dhttps://www.theguardian.com/culture...r-clive-of-india-flask-and-huqqa-set-heritage


Flag for sale

http://artdaily.com/news/93050/Wart...ctions--2016-Arms---Armor-Sales-#.WHtE4jGml9A


Weapons of WWI

http://www.scout.com/military/warrior/story/1746603-the-most-terrifying-weapons-of-world-war-i


Finds from Sobibor death camp linked to Anne Frank

http://www.timesofisrael.com/pendant-of-teen-possibly-linked-to-anne-frank-found-at-death-camp/


American presidents and their portraits

https://www.washingtonpost.com/post...to-shape-their-legacy/?utm_term=.ea51912fc72f


Exhibitions


Josephine’swardrobe at Malmaison

http://www.boutiquesdemusees.fr/fr/...ans-les-armoires-de-limperatrice-josephine/1/

http://musees-nationaux-malmaison.f...c-dans-les-armoires-de-limperatrice-josephine


Lorenzo Lotto in Bergamo

http://artdaily.com/news/93130/Exhi...-in-the-career-of-Lorenzo-Lotto-#.WH8qrTGml9A


Huntingweapons in Tula

http://www.kreml.ru/en-Us/exhibitio...orov-iz-sobraniya-muzeev-moskovskogo-kremlya/


'Conflict and Consequence: Photographing War and Its Aftermath' opens at Sheldon Museum of Art

http://artdaily.com/news/93115/-Con...-opens-at-Sheldon-Museum-of-Art-#.WH8rqDGml9A


Kasuga Taisha Shrine in Tokyo

http://www.tnm.jp/modules/r_free_page/index.php?id=1814

http://www.blouinartinfo.com/news/s...s-from-kasuga-taisha-shrine-at-tokyo-national


Books


Hans Prunner: The Gwynn Collection: A Lifetime Passion for Antique Arms and Armour

http://www.hansprunner-estore.com/portfolio-items/The-Gwyhttp://deremilihttp://www.brill.com/products/book/late-medieval-and-early-modern-fight-books


Martin Pegler: Colt Single-Action Revolvers

https://ospreypublishing.com/colt-single-action-revolvers


Peter Kidd: 500 Years: Treasures from the Library of Corpus Christi College, Oxford

http://www.scalapublishers.com/title.aspx?category=new-titles&subcategory=&id=3868


Two prize-winners from 2016


Tonio Andrade: The Gunpowder Age: China, Military Innovation, and the Rise of the West in World History

https://www.karwansaraypublishers.com/pw/medieval-warfare/blog/why-the-gunpowder-age-must-read/


Michael Livingston & Kelly DeVries: The Battle of Crécy: A Casebook

http://liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/blogs/news/battle-of-crecy-wins-distinguished-book-prize-2017


Online book


Sir Guy Laking & F H Cripps-Day: A record of European armour and arms through seven centuries vols 1-5

https://archive.org/search.php?query=creator%3A%22Cripps-Day%2C+http://www.imdb.com/list/ls053181649/videoplayer/vi487962137?pf_rd_m=A2FGELUUNOQJNL&pf_rd_p=2797007962&pf_rd_r=17FW1F6J26V8F3W7MVBX&pf_rd_s=hero&pf_rd_t=1506http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2119532/


Play about the Narvik campaign

https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2...nterview-playwright-liverpool-everyman-narvik


Viceroy’s House

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2017/jan/16/viceroys-house-tells-bloody-truth-of-partition


A world without guns

http://now.howstuffworks.com/2017/01/19/thought-experiment-world-without-guns



Events


Conferences


30 June-1 July 2017 National Civil War Centre

Newark Military History Conference http://www.militaryhistorylive.co.uk/conference.html



Websites and downloads


1066 etc: Medieval Islam & Castle Rushen

http://www.medievalists.net/2017/01...ims-french-illuminated-manuscripts-1200-1420/

http://www.medievalists.net/2017/01/understanding-castle-rushen/


Finally


Lovely piece about the digitalization of the Almain Armourers Album

https://www.vam.ac.uk/articles/almain-armourers-album


This fortnight we tweeted poems for Sad Times

https://twitter.com/Basiliscoe



Compiled by Ruth Rhynas Brown –24 January 2017


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