One Helmet One History: A Study of History Through Combat Helmets

Dear Guests,

It's me, Nud N. and I am pleased to present you my latest series, One Helmet One History: A Study of History Through Combat Helmets. In this series, I will be your guide in viewing the 20th Century (or perhaps evern to the 21st) history through antique combat helmets. Each helmet tells a story, a story of the world. They reflect how we fight, how we adapt to our adversaries, how we think and insofar the endless potential of the human race. Through comprehensive research and observation of these helmets, I have identified countless trends in history that are evident in helmets. I was inspired by a helmet collector and a fellow blogger Mannie Gentile and the owner of Casco Collection, Joseba Revuelda, in doing this. I aim to bridge Gentile's brevity and humor with the sheer breath of information in which Revuelda was noted for. This series will consist of:

1) An analysis of individual helmets that shaped history, it will be short, yet packed with easily digestible texts.

2) A comprehensive analysis of multiple helmets. I will be comparing and contrasting them with each other, lining them up and identify the prevalent trends in history and grouping them into families to analyze the continuities and changes over time that occurred in the nation that procured this family of helmets. Sounds familiar? And yes, these are AP World History methods that I will be using to analyze these artifacts, thus giving YOU the readers a better understanding of history through helmets.

I am a collector of military helmets and have been since 16, all artifacts in this blog are pieces displayed in my collection. It have been my dream to build a collection large enough to do this--and I did, so I could share my fascination of helmets with you. Thus without further ado, I invite you to explore history through helmets with me, Nud Nantavaropas.

The first blog of the series will be posted here. I will put one up each week, until I run out of helmets in which to write about, but that would be a long, long time.

Thank you.