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: November 2025
Edwardian paranoia
The Edwardian era was an unsettling time for Britain. Queen Victoria had died, and with her the certainties of the late Victorian era. People were unsure of what, exactly, was Britain’s place in the world, and if there would be … Continue reading
Romanian army buttons from world war one
Over ten years ago, before we moved to Beechworth, I became fascinated by the provenance of the old Krupp 75 mm gun outside the RSL. It didn’t have an Ottoman cipher, or a German or Austro Hungarian crest but instead … Continue reading
Technology and me in 2025
Most years I do a post recording how my personal use of technology over the year. Looking back at last year’s post, I can see there’s been a few changes but perhaps not as many as you might expect. The … Continue reading
The disappearance of the long s from handwriting
The long s (ſ) and its disappearance from handwriting is a bit of a mystery to me. Printers had more or less abandoned its use at the beginning of the nineteenth century, although it continued to continued to be used … Continue reading
An unused Queen Victoria letter card
I’ve picked up rather a nice example of an unused UK Queen Victoria letter card – which we can date to somewhere between 1892 when they were first introduced to sometime shortly after 1901 when she died and the existing … Continue reading
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