1000: The Sammies

[David Flin]

Comment on this celebratory article here.

It's time to put on glad rags and take a walk down the red carpet of fame.

 

[SenatorChickpea]

Ooh, a pleasant surprise. And a well-chosen field, (he typed before realising he was among them.)

I'm still astonished that this site hosts one of the most comprehensive overviews of the Thirty Years War ever written online; it's more detail than you get in many chapters of a narrative textbook.

 

[David Flin]

The Thirty Years War series by @Alex Richards was indeed a Tour de Force.

 

[Alex Richards]

It, much like the war itself, ballooned considerably, and in retrospect I managed the slightly ironic feat of spending more time on the bits of the war after the bits people may have heard of as well.

 

[Thande]

Nice idea David and thanks for the kind words.

 

[Death's Companion]

Nicely done David a good mix of 'well obviously that is a contender' and 'never seen that one before will give it a read later.'

 

[David Flin]

Nicely done David a good mix of 'well obviously that is a contender' and 'never seen that one before will give it a read later.'

Thank you.

The hardest part in each category was working out how to cut it down to just 4 nominees.

It's obviously a very personal selection, but it is an indication of just how much meat there has been in the blog articles over the years.

 

[Nick Sumner]

Congratulations to the SLP blog! (From one who, when he joined SLP, wasn't entirely certain what a blog was...)

 

[Death's Companion]

Thank you.

The hardest part in each category was working out how to cut it down to just 4 nominees.

It's obviously a very personal selection, but it is an indication of just how much meat there has been in the blog articles over the years.

I have to admit I didn't expect to be there and am very surprised to be a contender.

Its oddly humbling in an ego boosting way.

 

[Andrew J Harvey]

What a brilliant ploy to get people to read articles they may have missed. It's worked on me, I'm allocating the weekend to read up on some of the articles I've missed.
Congratulations to those nominated, and to everyone else who's ever featured in an article, or written one!

 

[David Flin]

What a brilliant ploy to get people to read articles they may have missed.

There's a lot of good quality stuff. I've left out a number of articles and writers who fully deserved to be nominated, but I just didn't have the room.

Without good writers submitting good articles, there isn't a blog. So I felt it appropriate to celebrate the success to date.

And, I must add, some stonking good books as well.

 

[Coiler]

Glad to have been a part of this!