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
Tag Archives: books
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
Ethel Voynich
If you’ve been following my blogs you’ll know that I have an interest in both the role of the Okhrana, the tsarist secret police, in penetrating groups of anti tsarist dissident living in London, and also the attempts by the … Continue reading
The time before the internet …
While we were away in South Australia, I took a couple of paperbacks with me to read, rather than an e-reader. J likes to sit and sketch, and in the bright sun of a South Australian autumn an e-ink screen … 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
James Clavell’s Shōgun
In 1975 James Clavell published a best selling novel Shōgun, loosely based on the story of William Adams, an English Tudor period pilot major who was shipwrecked off the coast of Japan in the early 1600s and rose to prominence … Continue reading
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