H-list Meme
I was checking my blog stats when I found this post over at My History Notes. It’s a meme that you can use to spread the word about your favourite history blogs. All you need to do is copy and paste the link list, add a link to the blog where you found the list, add your own favourites then wait and see.
So here is my H-list
- Breathing history
- Victoria’s cross?
- Great War Fiction
- Investigations of a dog
- Airminded
- Stories: take one/leave one
- Strange maps
- A historian’s craft
- You’re history!
- Early modern notes
- Found History
- How it really was
- Living the History: Elizabeth Chadwick
- My History Notes
- Rhine River
Go on!
Wise Words from Samuel Johnson
“Why, sir, a man grows better humoured as he grows older. He improves by experience. When young he thinks himself of great consequence, and every thing of importance. As he advances in life, he learns to think himself of no consequence, and little things of little importance; and so he becomes more patient, and better pleased. All good-humour and complaisance are acquired. Naturally a child seizes directly what it sees, and thinks of pleasing itself only. By degrees, it is taught to please others, and to prefer others; and that will ultimately produce the greatest happiness.”
Samuel Johnson, 1773
I found this wonderful quote in Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides by James Boswell. I bought it last week from the SOBICS bookstore in the shopping centre next to Yongsan station in Seoul. SOBICS has a good selection of books in English and a very odd section of hardbacks that look as if they were originally destined for libraries. I bought Tour to the Hebrides for just 9000 WON! (That’s US$9 or about £4.)
It is good reading about 18th-century British history again. The life of an academic wouldn’t have suited me because I think like an antiquarian, but it’s nice to have daily contact with history. I imagine everyone with a favourite hobby is always thinking about it at the back of their mind, whatever they do during the day. I like to have a bit of history at the back of mine.
