Blog entries tagged Themes

Themes of 2010 - Time to vote!

Jasper Oorthuys — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 18:11:41 +0100

I've received some great suggesti0ns in my previous posting, from which I've selected a few after due consideration of experiences, other ideas and random thoughts. Three issues are more or less 'fixed', while the theme for three others is open to the vote of the readership.

The theme for the Special of 2010 is not set yet, but we have zoomed in on one likely candidate. It won't be Marathon! It seems likely that there will be a commemoration of that battle in 2011, which is of course c...

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...

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...