Geeky stuff- Not a lot of progress
- Bottles (again)
- Finding Louisa
- Mrs Crow continues to confuse
- Louisa, you have led me a merry dance...
- So, how's the facebook thing going?
- The things one finds in old books ...
- Swapping out my old Thinkpad for an Acer Travelmate
- Prayer and hymn books
- Joseph King's cheap circulating library in Norwich
- 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: May 2026
Suffragettes and lipstick
I’ve written before about lipstick and revolution in the context of the Spanish civil war and how, in a famous photograph of Republican milicianas, one of the young women is clearly wearing lipstick. But something I didn’t know, was that … Continue reading
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Hooper’s rule
For the first time in a very long time I thought about Hooper’s Rule, a sort of rule of thumb worked out by the ecologist Max Hooper, as a way to estimate the age of hedges in England and Wales. … Continue reading
What do we really know about cat sociodynamics?
People who know me professionally tend to imagine that I’m a data scientist of some sort, or perhaps an IT person. And that’s sort of true, I did work on digital archiving solutions for AIATSIS and ANU, I did also … Continue reading
A late Queen Victoria post card from Gibraltar
A nice late example of a Queen Victoria post card from Gibraltar. The design is basically a late ‘Empire for the use of’ like this example from Natal We can date the Gibraltar example to probably sometime after 1898 due … Continue reading
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