Medieval History
Last week, dozens of Toronto-area bloggers gathered at a local bar, bringing with them their iPhones and Blackberries. Amidst watching Viking re-enactors fight it out on stage and playing trivia, the group got ready for the main event of the evening ? watching a tv show about the Pergamon and Neues Museums in Berlin, Germany, and tweeting history.
The bloggers/tweeters were there for a viewing party organized by the makers of Museum Secrets, a Canadian television show, and were busy tweeting about the episode, which featured Viking swords, ancient sculptures and the bust of Queen Nefertiti.
The viewing party was just one of many new efforts by two Canadian-made history shows, Battle Castle and Museum Secrets, to promote themselves to the online world. The programs, which air back-to-back on Thursday nights on History Television in Canada, are using their websites, Facebook and Twitter to reach out to an international audience.
Click here to read this article from Medievalists.net
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Medieval History
Tweeting History: Social Media meets Mummies and Moats
Last week, dozens of Toronto-area bloggers gathered at a local bar, bringing with them their iPhones and Blackberries. Amidst watching Viking re-enactors fight it out on stage and playing trivia, the group got ready for the main event of the evening ? watching a tv show about the Pergamon and Neues Museums in Berlin, Germany, and tweeting history.
The bloggers/tweeters were there for a viewing party organized by the makers of Museum Secrets, a Canadian television show, and were busy tweeting about the episode, which featured Viking swords, ancient sculptures and the bust of Queen Nefertiti.
The viewing party was just one of many new efforts by two Canadian-made history shows, Battle Castle and Museum Secrets, to promote themselves to the online world. The programs, which air back-to-back on Thursday nights on History Television in Canada, are using their websites, Facebook and Twitter to reach out to an international audience.
Click here to read this article from Medievalists.net
- New Details Released About ?vikings? Television Series
The producers of Vikings, a historical-drama to air in 2013, have released new details about the show, including more about the plot and the actors who will be donning Norse gear. The Irish-Canadian production, which began filming in Ireland this month,...
- Fresh Take On Medieval Castles: Series Explores Historical Sites And How They Stood Up In Times Of War
This medieval battle started centuries ago on England's Dover cliffs, but it was finished - in a manner of speaking - at an Abbotsford farm, and on a computer screen. Battle Castle is a six-part documentary series that takes viewers back to the building...
- Museum Secrets Reveals The History Behind Historical Objects
A museum can be the setting for exciting thrillers, and we?re not talking about the ones penned by Dan Brown. Museum Secrets, a six-part series on History Television, promises to uncover the mysteries and scandals of institutions such as the Vatican,...
- Museum Secrets ? New Television Series To Premiere In January
Museum Secrets is a six-part television series where viewers are invited into the world?s greatest museums to uncover surprising stories and revealing secrets. Premiering on Canada?s History Network on January 6, the Kensington Communications production...
- Blogging, Tweeting, And Publishing
I've been asked by JJ Cohen of In the Middle to compose something on the creation of my blog and my adventures in tweeting for an article he's working on. The article will appear in a book centered around Geoffrey Chaucer hath a Blog, in...