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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Goolwa morgue
We were in South Australia for a few days and found ourselves in Goolwa, which is nowadays a pleasant seaside town full of beach side cafes and old stone buildings, but historically was a working port at the mouth of … Continue reading
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Spending a little more time with Katherine Scragg
I’ve been spending a little more time on Katherine Scragg. (And her name was Katherine not Catherine, despite the newspaper reports to the contrary) I finally ran to ground a newspaper transcript of her deposition, which I won’t reproduce as … Continue reading
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Ladies only compartments
Predictably, assaults such as the case of Fanny Elizabeth Bull and Catherine Scragg led to bursts of moral outrage in the newspapers of the time and calls for the railway companies to provide Ladies Only compartments on their trains. While … Continue reading
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
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