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
Author Archives: dgm
Austro Hungarian Field Postcard 1915
I’ve acquired an AustroHungarian field postcard for my little collection of world war one ephemera Compared to British examples it’s quite simple. On the front of the card there’s a section on the left – helpfully labelled in the principal … Continue reading
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The Stepaniak code…
Recently, I’ve been rereading Death of a Schoolboy by Hans Koning. Long out of print it’s a novel about Gavrilo Princip, the assassin of Franz Ferdinand and paints a compelling portrait of alienation and radicalisation. It’s also one of the … Continue reading
Stalin in London
Earlier this year I read ‘Young Stalin‘ by Simon Sebag-Montefiore – the book was published nearly twenty years ago but is still an interesting read. (The book is still in print and second hand copies are available online for a … Continue reading
Snow on their boots
I’ve been working up at the Athenaeum for one morning a week cataloguing their historic book collection, and last Friday I catalogued some books written by Ursula Bloom. There seemed to be rather a lot of books by Ms Bloom, … Continue reading
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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Letter cards
Over the past year or so I’ve developed a slow burn fascination with late Victorian and Edwardian postcards. I don’t simply collect them, when I get a new one I try my hand at transcribing the card and trying to … Continue reading
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