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
A post card to Miss Tripp
I’m not a serious post card collector, but I’m fascinated by the way people in the late nineteenth century used post cards much in the way we use text messages and emails, and occasionally, when I’ve some spare cash I’ll … Continue reading
Writing in the nineteenth century
The combination of the penny post and increasing literacy meant that people in the nineteenth century wrote a lot. We are not talking about the good and the great, but about ordinary people writing ordinary letters commiserating a cousin for … Continue reading
Technology and me in 2024 …
For a long time now, I’ve been doing an annual review of my personal use of technology, so following on from last year’s review here’s the review for 2024. In a sense, not much has changed. I have finally bought … Continue reading
A nineteenth century hockey playing cult
While researching something else entirely I came across the story of the Agapemone, a nineteenth century quasi christian cult in England. I came across the cult due to the misuse of the laws governing lunacy in England in the mid … Continue reading
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Sewing machines and bicycles
Down at Lake View yesterday, one of the items I documented was an 1867 Britannia sewing machine made in Colchester in England Britannia machines were extensively advertised at the time and at a cost of GBP 9 – which works … Continue reading
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A short door post box in Echuca
In Victoria, there are still quite a few nineteenth century post boxes around. There’s two common types a cylindrical model with a metal crown on on top and a square design which sometimes has a separate slot for posting newspapers. … Continue reading
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A trip to Lake Tyrell
J had come across some pictures of Lake Tyrell, a salt lake out in Mallee in the west of the state, and thought the landscapes might make a suitable subject for a painting or two. At the same time I’d … Continue reading
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An indecent assault at Lauriston
(digitised 1880’s map from The National Library of Scotland) When I went down an internet rabbit hole about crime and nineteenth century railway carriages, I mentioned that I had come across a report of an incident on the Montrose to … Continue reading
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Crime and the nineteenth century railway carriage
Train travel revolutionised life for Victorians. Suddenly it became possible for people on modest incomes to travel more than they could comfortably walk in a day, and in a shorter time, be it for a school teacher to visit friends … Continue reading
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Not researching Florence Nightingale and PTSD…
A lot of people tend to assume I have some sort of a degree in computing, life sciences, archaeology or archival studies, history even, and while it’s true to say I’ve spent time working in jobs associated with these fields, … Continue reading
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