I’ve been working on this here and there on my own for a while now, but now I want to open something up to the listeners of British History 101.
It’s been fascinating to see all the tools one can utilize from Google, and I’m particularly interested in the Google calendar for our purposes here at British History 101. What I’ve done is place events in British history on a Google calendar on the date they occured with the year immediately following. The events are set to recur yearly, so they will automatically renew themselves as time goes on. The days of the week won’t be accurate, but at least we can attach a day, month, and year to the event. I’m told one can access the calendar through any one of these three addresses:
I’m not completely sure how any of that works, so please let me know if you have any problems with it.
Here’s where you become involved. I’m fairly sure that those links point to a read-only calendar; that is, only I can actually add or delete events. What I’d like is to get listener submissions (LOTS!) of historical events for me to add to it and we can see it grow over time and refer back to continuously. I wish listeners could add events directly, but for the time being this will have to suffice. If you’d like to submit a date, send me an email at BritishHistory101@gmail.com with “Calendar” as the subject line. Make sure you include the title of the event along with day, month, and year. I’d prefer some sort of description of the event, and another preference would be that the description come from some reliable, published source (properly referenced, of course). Let’s see if this is a project British History 101 listeners are interested in!
Well, I can see the calendar, but it appears to be empty, at least for August.
Yes, August is, in fact, empty. The calendar is something I’ve just now started and am adding events as I come across them in reading. It’s a work in progress, and more and more will appear as time goes by. Thanks for checking it out, though!
Some dates for you:
Christmas Day, 1066 William the Conqueror crowned King of England
2 August 1100 William Rufus killed
5 August 1100 Henry I crowned
25 November 1120 The White Ship disaster, William the Atheling drowns
Thanks! They’ve been added in their appropriate spots.
Hi,
calender is some sort of printing device. You mean calendar. History is fine, but basic spelling is important, too.
Duly noted and changed. Yes, my third grade teacher would be utterly ashamed at the error of my ways.
Very nice Google Calender plugin! And a very nice podcast by the way