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2016 : People's best history resources during year

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  • 27-12-2016 12:08pm
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    Manach
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    Hi,
    In terms of History, what would people's best historical resource that was of interest or fun that people have come across in the pass year?

    My own would be:
    Books:
    Strategy by Lawrence Freedman
    Clausewitz by David Stoker
    Clio and Me by Martin Van Crevald.

    Videos: The Military History Visualized. 10m sized chunks of Military History ranging from Classical Times up to contemporary conflicts.
    https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCK09g6gYGMvU-0x1VCF1hgA

    Music: Sabaton, A Swedish Power metal band focusing its themes on historical battles : for instance a whole album, Carolus Rex, on the Swedish Empire was fun to listen to.


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    pedroeibar1
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    As a resource (and excluding the Geno records that came online) it was the National Archive at Kew. Obviously I always knew it was there, but this year I used it extensively to research the records of an Irish family, (a father and his two sons in the RN) during the Napoleonic Wars and subsequent period. I was side-tracked continuously by interesting (unrelated) 'finds'.


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    paul71
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    https://www.youtube.com/user/TheGreatWar

    This guy is doing a week by week account of World War 1, 100 years on. I have been watching for 2 years now, very interesting, very well presented.


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