When: Thursday, April 24, 2025 1pm (EDT)/10am (PDT)/7pm (CEST) Where: Online via Zoom Kathryn Renton (B.A. Harvard, M.A. and Ph.D, UCLA), is a historian andcommunications specialist at… Read more “EHC Coffee Chat with Dr. Kathryn Renton”
Tag: books
The Big Day – ‘Soldiers and their Horses’ is finally here! — Soldiers and their Horses
Check out the latest work from EHC scholar Dr. Jane Flynn! After weeks of proof checking. Chasing copyright and permissions. Having learned the mysterious art of indexing.… Read more “The Big Day – ‘Soldiers and their Horses’ is finally here! — Soldiers and their Horses”
#SourceSaturday: Research Fellowships Available at Michigan State Special Collections
Back in April, we posted about the fantastic Veterinary Medicine Historical Collection held at at Michigan State’s Special Collections. Great news: MSU Special Collections is now offering… Read more “#SourceSaturday: Research Fellowships Available at Michigan State Special Collections”
#MemberMonday: Mike Huggins
Mike Huggins University of Cumbria Ph. D., Lancaster University, 1999 Diploma in Reading Studies, Open University, 1988 Diploma in Management Studies, CNAA, 1986 MA, CNAA, 1983 Diploma… Read more “#MemberMonday: Mike Huggins”
#ShelfieSunday: Horse Nations
Horse Nations, by Peter Mitchell, 2015. Oxford: Oxford University Press Review by Kathryn Renton In Horse Nations (2015), Peter Mitchell offers a wide-ranging synthesis of archaeological,… Read more “#ShelfieSunday: Horse Nations”
#SourceSaturday: The Secret History of the Mongols
“There came into the world a blue-grey wolf….his wife was a fallow deer.” The Secret History is part creation myth, part family history, part regional… Read more “#SourceSaturday: The Secret History of the Mongols”
#Shelfie Sunday: Horses, Oxen and Technological Innovation: The Use of Draught Animals in English Farming from 1066 to 1500
John Langdon, Horses, Oxen and Technological Innovation: The Use of Draught Animals in English Farming from 1066 to 1500 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986). Review by Jordan Claridge Now… Read more “#Shelfie Sunday: Horses, Oxen and Technological Innovation: The Use of Draught Animals in English Farming from 1066 to 1500”
#MemberMonday: Holly Kruse
Holly Kruse Ph.D., Communication University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Post-graduate Certificate, Equine Business University of Louisville B.A., Political Science & History University of Iowa What got… Read more “#MemberMonday: Holly Kruse”
#ShelfieSunday: Kingdom of the Workhorse
Kingdom of the Workhorse by A.J.Dampier Countryside Publications, 1987 ISBN 0 86157 226 2 Review by Miriam Bibby This splendid account of the lives of working… Read more “#ShelfieSunday: Kingdom of the Workhorse”
#ShelfieSunday: ‘A plaine and easie waie to remedie a horse’: Equine Medicine in Early Modern England
Louise Hill Curth, ‘A plaine and easie waie to remedie a horse’: Equine Medicine in Early Modern England (Leiden: Brill, 2013). Review by Janice Gunther Martin Louise… Read more “#ShelfieSunday: ‘A plaine and easie waie to remedie a horse’: Equine Medicine in Early Modern England”