Love this! I’m at the airport and this feels like the perfect digital magazine to browse through 🥰 thanks again for the collab and for mentioning the post here again! Appreciate your generosity Holly! 🌸
Carmen that this just the best feedback as I wanted it to feel exactly like a magazine to browse through! Wishing you happy travels and hope you enjoy reading the journal 🥰
So excited for this! Can't wait to sit down with a cup of coffee and read every word! I'd love to contribute to future ones. This month was crazy with end of semester assignments. Thanks for putting this together!! When do you find the time?!
This is exactly the vibe I was going for! I’ve got one exciting contribution already lined up for next month - and I’d love to have your words too! Hope you enjoy reading 🥰
Hi Holly, Not sure but think you are taking submissions for the journal? On something we may have published on Substack in past 3 months. I will send a submission by email to you. (sorry I did not see the email here). Thank you.
What a fantastic article, thank you so much for sharing. On the section about credentials; I have specifically included a note in the novel I am working on, that I am not a historian. There may well be things that I’ve misunderstood or missed because at the end of the day history is a passion and I don’t know what I don’t know. I have done the best I can with the resources available to me. I just hope anything I have missed doesn’t take the reader out of the world I am trying to create.
I really spend much of my time reading military history, a publishing field heavily loaded with non-academic authors, a number of whom are quite good. On the other hand, I'm presently reading The Battle of Midway by Craig L. Symonds and finding it the epitome of academic history written so that the general reader can enjoy it supported by the footnotes, end notes, bibliography, and research demanded by the serious historian. I've been reading about (and refighting) the battle of Midway since reading Walter Lord's Incredible Victory in High School (while also refighting the battle courtesy of The Avalon Hill Game Company). Symonds' work reflects all of those who have presented on the subject before, from all sides of the conflict and afterwards.
On the subject of credential: I am grateful to be pursuing PhD studies largely because a PhD scholar successfully advocated for my inclusion in an Advanced Seminar at Oxford despite my having an only masters at the time. That was a life changing experience, and pushed me to pursue the PhD. Nevertheless, I can imagine there are areas of academia where openness to lower credentials of and/or excellent autodidacts would actually drive rather than lower quality of historical scholarship, as well as offer novel perspectives from outside the conventions of current academic discourse.
Superb, Holly!
Thanks Marian!
Love this! I’m at the airport and this feels like the perfect digital magazine to browse through 🥰 thanks again for the collab and for mentioning the post here again! Appreciate your generosity Holly! 🌸
Carmen that this just the best feedback as I wanted it to feel exactly like a magazine to browse through! Wishing you happy travels and hope you enjoy reading the journal 🥰
Thank you! Thankfully Lufthansa offers WiFi haha so I can actually also open the links to the other posts ✈️
Thanks for the inclusion, Holly.
So excited for this! Can't wait to sit down with a cup of coffee and read every word! I'd love to contribute to future ones. This month was crazy with end of semester assignments. Thanks for putting this together!! When do you find the time?!
This is exactly the vibe I was going for! I’ve got one exciting contribution already lined up for next month - and I’d love to have your words too! Hope you enjoy reading 🥰
Hi Holly, Not sure but think you are taking submissions for the journal? On something we may have published on Substack in past 3 months. I will send a submission by email to you. (sorry I did not see the email here). Thank you.
Yes, there is a place for non-Pd.D. writers in this group and in publications across the world.
What a fantastic article, thank you so much for sharing. On the section about credentials; I have specifically included a note in the novel I am working on, that I am not a historian. There may well be things that I’ve misunderstood or missed because at the end of the day history is a passion and I don’t know what I don’t know. I have done the best I can with the resources available to me. I just hope anything I have missed doesn’t take the reader out of the world I am trying to create.
I really spend much of my time reading military history, a publishing field heavily loaded with non-academic authors, a number of whom are quite good. On the other hand, I'm presently reading The Battle of Midway by Craig L. Symonds and finding it the epitome of academic history written so that the general reader can enjoy it supported by the footnotes, end notes, bibliography, and research demanded by the serious historian. I've been reading about (and refighting) the battle of Midway since reading Walter Lord's Incredible Victory in High School (while also refighting the battle courtesy of The Avalon Hill Game Company). Symonds' work reflects all of those who have presented on the subject before, from all sides of the conflict and afterwards.
On the subject of credential: I am grateful to be pursuing PhD studies largely because a PhD scholar successfully advocated for my inclusion in an Advanced Seminar at Oxford despite my having an only masters at the time. That was a life changing experience, and pushed me to pursue the PhD. Nevertheless, I can imagine there are areas of academia where openness to lower credentials of and/or excellent autodidacts would actually drive rather than lower quality of historical scholarship, as well as offer novel perspectives from outside the conventions of current academic discourse.
Thank you Holly for the mention
Wonderful to be included! Thank you Holly!