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
Muybridge and hip-baths
Eadweard Muybridge was undoubtedly a most peculiar man, but his huge collection of photographs of naked people doing quite simple things has proved an invaluable resource for studies of human locomotion. His images also help give us an idea of … Continue reading
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Lenin and … fish and chips
While delving into the Okhrana’s presence in London I came across a few snippets about Lenin, and his time in London. Lenin did not really like London. Too grey, too polluted and and the continual damp of an English winter … Continue reading
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Amy Faulkner
Amy Faulkner was clearly a troubled young woman. Only 16, she had had some sort of argument with her parents and was no longer living at home. In May 1892 she boarded a train in Bradford, and somewhere near Leeds … Continue reading
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Harriet Daniels
Not all assault cases ended in favour of the victim. In 1888 a young woman named Harriet Daniels claimed that she had been assaulted by a coal miner, one John Phillips in a first class railway compartment in a train … Continue reading
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Fanny Elizabeth Bull
While train travel undoubtedly revolutionised life for Victorians, it did, especially in the days of non corridor trains, expose women to the risk of being sexually assaulted. The most prominent case that I’ve come across is that of Kate Dickinson, … Continue reading
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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
Female detectives, spies and assassins…
I’ve been reading Sara Lodge’s book on female police detectives in the nineteenth century, and excellent it is too. Understandably, most of the material that she covers comes from the British Isles so, out of interest, I searched both Trove … Continue reading
