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
Mary Wellstead, telegraphist
Earlier this year, we had a road trip in WA, and the furtherest east we got to was Bremer Bay, at the end of a frayed tarmac road running through scrub for 60km. It was a place so remote it … Continue reading
Gurdjieff and Stalin
George Gurdjieff was a remarkable man. To some he was a mystic and a seeker after truth, to some a charlatan, and perhaps he was something in between. Growing up in Kars, which after the 1877 war between Tsarist Russia … Continue reading
The train to Iraq
A couple of days ago, after the evening news, we watched a repeat of Michael Palin’s travel documentary where he visits Iraq. In the opening few minutes of the programme, he rides the train through a wintry Turkey to Diyarbakir … Continue reading
Mechanics Institute, Athenaeum or School of Arts?
I’ve been reading Shirley Barrett’s Rush Oh!, a story about whaling in Eden in the far south east of New South Wales, and an area which I more or less know. When we lived in Canberra, the coast from Pebbly … Continue reading
Flappers
Clara Bow in 1921 – public domain via wikimedia commons Flappers. Usually when we hear the word flapper we think of young women in the 1920s with bobbed hair, short skirts who smoked, drank gin martinis, and might even have … Continue reading
Bicycle soldiers
Personally, I’ve always liked bicycles. When I was a lot younger than I am now a bicycle gave me a freedom to explore, as well as providing cheap and reliable transport. And because I’ve always had a soft spot for … Continue reading
More Balkan ephemera…
An Albanian 1 Lek coin from 1931. Albania, in the early part of the twentieth century, had a complex, and at times farcical history. Emerging from the ruins of the Ottoman Empire after the Balkan wars, at first the European … Continue reading
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
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