Airminded · State of the military historioblogosphere, March 2008
Finally, we come to the only bit that anybody ever looks at, the top 5 military history blogs by Technorati rank. And here there has in fact been quite a bit of movement. Two of the top 5 are new to the list, and there is also a new number 1. That’s Civil War Memory, which has been threatening to become the most popular military history blog ever since I started doing these posts. Second is one of the new entrants, Kings of War. Though it’s an excellent blog, and has impeccable academic credentials, it’s only very rarely about military history: reflecting the interests of its maintainers, it’s mostly about contemporary wars. But as it is in fact in Cliopatria’s blogroll, and it has become very popular very quickly, King’s of War has earned its place at number 2. At number three is the former number one, and still the doyen of military history blogs, Blog Them Out of the Stone Age. Fourth is the other newcomer, Rantings of a Civil War Historian. And bringing up the rear is Airminded (phew).
Brett Holman, the proprietor of Airminded, does point out that KOW at present doesn’t do a lot of history (proof of point: my post below). This is a shame. I’m working on the philosophy that ‘if you build it, they will come.’ You hear that my dusty-fingered colleagues fresh from the archives or wherever it is you historians skive off to while us contemporary-war-focussed types ruin our eyesight and type until our fingers bleed poring and blogging over the latest news from the interwebs?
