Review of Ginger McCain, My Colourful Life: from Red to Amber. London: Headline Book Publishing, 2005, 2006, 2014. Review by Anastasija Ropa In this lively autobiography,… Read more “#ShelfieSunday: My Colourful Life: from Red to Amber”
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#ShelfieSunday: Race Horse Men
Katherine C. Mooney Race Horse Men: How Slavery and Freedom Were Made at the Racetrack Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2014 Hardcover: $35.00 ISBN 9780674281424 Subject matter:… Read more “#ShelfieSunday: Race Horse Men”
#ShelfieSunday: The Perfect Horse: The Daring US Mission to Rescue the Priceless Stallions Kidnapped By the Nazis
by Jeannette Vaught Review of Elizabeth Letts, The Perfect Horse: The Daring US Mission to Rescue the Priceless Stallions Kidnapped By the Nazis, New York, Ballantine Books,… Read more “#ShelfieSunday: The Perfect Horse: The Daring US Mission to Rescue the Priceless Stallions Kidnapped By the Nazis”
#ShelfieSunday: War Horse: Mounting the Cavalry with America’s Finest Horses
War Horse started as a project by two horsemen to uncover the relationship between pedigree and confirmation, especially pertaining to soundness and athleticism. It became an… Read more “#ShelfieSunday: War Horse: Mounting the Cavalry with America’s Finest Horses”
#ShelfieSunday: Le cheval et la guerre du XVe au XXe siècle
By Kathryn Renton Daniel Roche and Daniel Reytier, Le cheval et la guerre du XVe au XXe siècle (Paris: Association pour l’académie d’art équestre de Versailles, 2002). … Read more “#ShelfieSunday: Le cheval et la guerre du XVe au XXe siècle”
#ShelfieSunday: Crowdsourcing
We put out a call for a crowdsource bibliography on twitter, and the crowd went wild! We’ll be adding these suggestions to our bibliography, and… Read more “#ShelfieSunday: Crowdsourcing”
#ShelfieSunday: and they’re off!
We’ve had an absolutely lovely response to our call for reviewers. To help develop useful conversations about our growing field, we will be running our… Read more “#ShelfieSunday: and they’re off!”
#SelfieSunday: The Medieval Horse and Its Equipment by John Clark
John Clark is a curator (now Emeritus) at the Museum of London, and as such his book The Medieval Horse and Its Equipment is primarily focused on objects on… Read more “#SelfieSunday: The Medieval Horse and Its Equipment by John Clark”
#ShelfieSunday: The Medieval Warhorse: Origin, Development and Redevelopment by R.H.C. Davis
R.H.C. Davis’s 1989 The Medieval Warhorse: Origin, Development and Redevelopment gives a remarkably in depth view of medieval horse breeding and management practices, alongside the… Read more “#ShelfieSunday: The Medieval Warhorse: Origin, Development and Redevelopment by R.H.C. Davis”