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
Cooktown and the Panjdeh crisis of 1885
Over on one of my other blogs I mention that there seems to be some confusion over the provenance of the Cooktown gun. The myth is that in 1885 the town council was worried about a Russian invasion an requested … Continue reading
Another first world war propaganda postcard
A nice example of a British propaganda card entitled ‘One of our tanks’ showing a British Mark IV tank The text is quite legible and written in ink My transcription of the text reads Auchmacoy still exists and is a … Continue reading
Pfennigs and fillers
You may remember that in a previous post I mentioned in passing that during the first world war, the German Empire withdrew the low value cupro nickel coins in favour or iron coins as the metal in the cupro nickel … Continue reading
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Air raids in World War One
Sometimes, it seems that my at times dilettante research is a series of rabbit holes. And so with my attempts to date a world war one propaganda postcard of a cartoon German soldier being pursued by a tank has led … Continue reading
A conundrum from the first world war
I’ve been spending my money again and picked up this example of a British world war 1 propaganda postcard which shows a German soldier running from an advancing (and presumably British) tank. The rear of the postcard is a bit … Continue reading
A ride to Yasnaya Polyana
Off the back of my research into Constance Garnett, and her connections to both the Russian exile community in 1890’s London, I came across the story of her contempories, and competing translators, Louise and Aylmer Maude. The Maudes were supporters … Continue reading
Tolstoy, translators and English utopianism
While spending a little more time with Constance (and the Russian revolutionary community in London at the end of the nineteenth century), I kept coming across the names of Louise and Aylmer Maude who were also translators of Tolstoy’s work … Continue reading
Sergei Stepniak
Sergei Stepniak is obviously key to the story of the Friends of Russian Freedom, in 1890s London, as well as to the life of Constance Garnett. So, as an exercise, I thought I’d try and see what we could learn … Continue reading
The Society of Friends of Russian Freedom
Sometimes a diagram is best. On the back of my looking into the life of Ethel Voynich, I kept on coming across the same names, sometimes in different contexts, so to try and make sense out of it I drew … Continue reading
Lenin in Torquay
Strange one this. There’s apparently an unsubstantiated story that while Lenin was in London in 1907 he had himself a little holiday in Torquay in Devon. Well, maybe he did, or maybe he didn’t, but it is true that Lenin … Continue reading
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