Blog entries tagged Articles

Themes of 2010

Jasper Oorthuys — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 05:00:00 +0100

I have to say that, so far, the themes that the readership of this blog and I came up with, seem to have congealed into interesting issues. Sure, some themes cause me to go bald with worry about appropriate photography, but I seem to be genetically pre-disposed to be sparse-haired anyway.

So, I'd like to start the discussion about themes for next year. I'll lay out some ground rules, you can post your suggestions in the comments from which I'll select three or four for each issue, on w...

'The Find' - short version

Jasper Oorthuys — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 23:00:00 +0100

Sometimes when you're laying out the contents of a magazine, it appears you have an extra page. The usual quick 'n dirty solution is to insert one of your own or a charity ad. Or perhaps there is a good photo that can be enlarged to fill a page. The latter especially is not a bad solution, but I´m thinking of something new.

I am thinking of starting a new series of short - 1 page - articles as 'filler' material, a sort of short versions of 'the Find'. My idea would be to present inter...

Using more reenactors?

Jasper Oorthuys — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 23:00:00 +0100

As you may or may not know, getting good quality illustrations for our articles is a constant concern for me. Simply put, I can illustrate Roman imperial stuff forever and a day, but when it comes to Roman Republican soldiers, Alexander's troops or, dear me, those wonderfully interesting Successor armies, it's another story.

One possibility would be to use more reenactors to illustrate the magazine. Provided they wear kit that qualifies as an accurate reproduction, this could give the...

Themes of 2009

Jasper Oorthuys — Mon, 26 May 2008 23:00:00 +0100

For a while now I've been thinking about the themes for 2009. Some seem obvious. There's doubtless going to be a plethora of books and articles about the Teutoburg forest, but I'm confident that our angles and take will be deeper and more original than what's usually served up.

The Clades Variana will have to be a theme then and I have pretty much made up my mind that the first issue of the new year will be on Mercenaries, which should provide discussion materials from the earliest ti...

Articles and abstracts

Jasper Oorthuys — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 23:00:00 +0100

Many authors ask me what I'd like them to write about. Personally, I think that's making it a little too easy on yourself. It's clever, because it'll be hard to refuse an article if I've asked for it first, but maybe not the kind of clever I'm looking for. So here is a list of some of the things I look at when I get an abstract, translated into a series of do's and don'ts. What it comes down to, in short, is: be original and give me something that...