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
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
Madeleine and George
A few years ago, I got interested in the story of Madeleine Smith, a youg woman in Glasgow who was put on trial for murdering her clingy boyfriend by putting arsenic in his cocoa when he refused to break off … Continue reading
The afterlife of Katherine Scragg
As I often do, I decided to find out a little of Katherine Scragg’s life after her 1887 assault. I’d already established that in both the 1891 and 1901 censuses she was listed as a school teacher living in Cheslyn … Continue reading
Ethel Voynich’s early life as revealed by the census…
As I’ve said elsewhere I spent part of yesterday afternoon in the library researching Ethel Voynich’s early life to see what I could glean from the England Wales census records Ignoring the 1871 census which unsurprisingly confirms she was living … 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
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
Anarchists, revolutionaries and female spies
I’ve become intrigued by the 1894 story of the anarchist Polti being arrested through the agency of a female detective to whom he showed some documents, and it’s all a little bit strange. The early newspaper accounts mention a female … Continue reading
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