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
Ursula’s war…
Over the last few days I’ve been reading Ursula Bloom’s memoir of her life as a young woman during the first world war. It’s not history, it’s very much a personal memoir, but on another level it is an important … Continue reading
The Stepaniak code…
Recently, I’ve been rereading Death of a Schoolboy by Hans Koning. Long out of print it’s a novel about Gavrilo Princip, the assassin of Franz Ferdinand and paints a compelling portrait of alienation and radicalisation. It’s also one of the … Continue reading
Stalin in London
Earlier this year I read ‘Young Stalin‘ by Simon Sebag-Montefiore – the book was published nearly twenty years ago but is still an interesting read. (The book is still in print and second hand copies are available online for a … Continue reading
Snow on their boots
I’ve been working up at the Athenaeum for one morning a week cataloguing their historic book collection, and last Friday I catalogued some books written by Ursula Bloom. There seemed to be rather a lot of books by Ms Bloom, … Continue reading
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
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