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- 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
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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 →
Austro Hungarian Field Postcard 1915
I’ve acquired an AustroHungarian field postcard for my little collection of world war one ephemera Compared to British examples it’s quite simple. On the front of the card there’s a section on the left – helpfully labelled in the principal … 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 →
Technology and me in 2025
Most years I do a post recording how my personal use of technology over the year. Looking back at last year’s post, I can see there’s been a few changes but perhaps not as many as you might expect. The … Continue reading →
The disappearance of the long s from handwriting
The long s (ſ) and its disappearance from handwriting is a bit of a mystery to me. Printers had more or less abandoned its use at the beginning of the nineteenth century, although it continued to continued to be used … Continue reading →
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