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: nineteenth-century
Tea and the English Class System
Three Victorian Ladies drinking tea – public domain Recently, I’ve been reading Sam Llewellyn’s Shadow in the Sands (ignore Amazon’s silly pricing – second hand copies are available for a few dollars). The novel is positioned as a sequel to … Continue reading
Goolwa morgue
We were in South Australia for a few days and found ourselves in Goolwa, which is nowadays a pleasant seaside town full of beach side cafes and old stone buildings, but historically was a working port at the mouth of … Continue reading
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Ladies only compartments
Predictably, assaults such as the case of Fanny Elizabeth Bull and Catherine Scragg led to bursts of moral outrage in the newspapers of the time and calls for the railway companies to provide Ladies Only compartments on their trains. While … 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
The hip bath
I’ve been cataloguing the contents of Lake View House for the National Trust Other than its connection to Henry Handel Richardson the main value in Lake View is that it is a typical 1870’s corridor villa with an external kitchen … Continue reading
Writing in the nineteenth century
The combination of the penny post and increasing literacy meant that people in the nineteenth century wrote a lot. We are not talking about the good and the great, but about ordinary people writing ordinary letters commiserating a cousin for … Continue reading
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