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: history
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
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
Cooktown and the Panjdeh crisis of 1885
Over on one of my other blogs I mention that there seems to be some confusion over the provenance of the Cooktown gun. The myth is that in 1885 the town council was worried about a Russian invasion an requested … Continue reading
Another first world war propaganda postcard
A nice example of a British propaganda card entitled ‘One of our tanks’ showing a British Mark IV tank The text is quite legible and written in ink My transcription of the text reads Auchmacoy still exists and is a … Continue reading
Air raids in World War One
Sometimes, it seems that my at times dilettante research is a series of rabbit holes. And so with my attempts to date a world war one propaganda postcard of a cartoon German soldier being pursued by a tank has led … Continue reading
A conundrum from the first world war
I’ve been spending my money again and picked up this example of a British world war 1 propaganda postcard which shows a German soldier running from an advancing (and presumably British) tank. The rear of the postcard is a bit … Continue reading
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
Sergei Stepniak
Sergei Stepniak is obviously key to the story of the Friends of Russian Freedom, in 1890s London, as well as to the life of Constance Garnett. So, as an exercise, I thought I’d try and see what we could learn … Continue reading
The Society of Friends of Russian Freedom
Sometimes a diagram is best. On the back of my looking into the life of Ethel Voynich, I kept on coming across the same names, sometimes in different contexts, so to try and make sense out of it I drew … Continue reading
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