Geeky stuff- Building an archive solution
- Preprints and repositories in the Soviet Union
- Light weight cataloguing with BibTex
- What do we actually mean by data retention?
- Using BibTex for artefact description
- Open source literature and citizen science
- Scientific communication in pre 1989 Eastern Europe
- What is a repository?
- Lodlam 2015
- Electronic resources and BibTeX
- Exporting references from Dspace in BibTeX format
Monthly Archives: January 2025
Keeping your cool
When I was researching hip baths I had great difficulty in finding suitable images – basically it seems that no nineteenth century cartoonist, artist or photographer produced an image of a hip bath in use which has ended up in … Continue reading
The hip bath
I’ve been cataloguing the contents of Lake View House for the National Trust Other than its connection to Henry Handel Richardson the main value in Lake View is that it is a typical 1870’s corridor villa with an external kitchen … Continue reading
Fairies and socialism
Towards the end of the 1880’s, improvements in lithographic printing meant it became possible to produce books with coloured illustrations relatively cheaply. And one of the first markets was children’s books – often given the increasing interest in folklore in … Continue reading
Anarchists, revolutionaries and female spies
I’ve become intrigued by the 1894 story of the anarchist Polti being arrested through the agency of a female detective to whom he showed some documents, and it’s all a little bit strange. The early newspaper accounts mention a female … Continue reading
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