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
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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
The Featherstone riots of 1893
This past few months I’ve been researching the interconnections between various translators of nineteenth century Russian novels, radical Russian exiles and the birth of the socialist movement in England. Along the way we’ve had a diversion or two, such as … Continue reading
Tea and the English Class System
Three Victorian Ladies drinking tea – public domain Recently, I’ve been reading Sam Llewellyn’s Shadow in the Sands (ignore Amazon’s silly pricing – second hand copies are available for a few dollars). The novel is positioned as a sequel to … Continue reading
The Panjdeh crisis and Australia
As I’ve written before there was a major panic in 1885 that, on the back of the Panjdeh incident, there might be war between Britain and Russia, including the chance of an attack on the east coast of Australia by … Continue reading
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Iron 2 heller
A few weeks ago I wrote about how both Imperial Germany and Austria Hungary replaced their small change during world war one with coins made of base metals such as iron as the as the metal from the original coins … Continue reading
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