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
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
Female detectives, spies and assassins…
I’ve been reading Sara Lodge’s book on female police detectives in the nineteenth century, and excellent it is too. Understandably, most of the material that she covers comes from the British Isles so, out of interest, I searched both Trove … 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
Other people’s history
History is a strange and slippery thing, full of truths, half-truths, and strange inexplicable seeming events. And so it is when you watch other people’s tv. Sometimes it turns out what you think you know isn’t quite true. For example, … Continue reading
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