I really think more could be made of this, but it is a slight movement in the right direction when an article on loneliness among the relatively young can say:
using technology to help you meet new people can be beneficial. And if for whatever reason you are unable to venture outside, the internet can bring solace. Mumsnet has been "an absolute ( Read more... )

But I am really rather tempted to invoke this. At the very least, history that has been largely occluded.

I've just started the initial sort for my latest cataloguing job, which is one where inclination and duty nicely coincide, and realising that it is going to illuminate an area that has previously been very obscure except for a few high-profile ( Read more... )

With a certain amount of faff and frazzle, I have managed to move to a different campus apartment which may not start the day ridiculously early with the glare (blinds, large windows facing the morning sun, bed opposite window).

In spite of which I have had a usefully productive day in the archives, even though part of it involved reconstructing ( Read more... )

... but the researcher is quite okay with having several boxfuls of files produced for me to work through, taking notes or snapping images with my phone.

Because who wants to painstakingly transcribe lists of people who were the vice presidents or advisory body to obscure organisations?

I daresay this is well-known in Tolkien circles, but I was not ( Read more... )

Maybe I think this coz I is an archivist - this week I was doing some testing of a digital archive project and was deeply unimpressed that the contextual information for the image being tested was just the not very helpful file title - no indication of the larger collection or part of same that it came from. Hope that gets fixed during beta-testing ( Read more... )

Okay, I will concede that there sometimes seem to be really quite few people in the world, given that phenomenon whereby one not infrequently discovers that someone one knows in a particular context turns out to know another acquaintance in some entirely different context...

Even so, was thinking about the Shakespeare Authorship Controversy and ( Read more... )

Starbucks pretends to be boho coffee-house

And in further news today: Fakes, forgeries and classification blunders to go on display in exhibition at the National Gallery.

Kathryn Hughes ponders on the desire to believe in groups and movements in a column on the Pre-Raph soap-opera Desperate Romantics:
The irony is that in real life a group is only ( Read more... )

I was really excited to learn about this:
Mrs. Delany and Her Circle
which is happening later this year at the Yale Center for British Art and then coming to London, yay!
This exhibition will explore the life, world and work of Mary Delany, née Mary Granville (1700 - 1788). Though best known for her almost one thousand botanical "paper mosaics" now ( Read more... )

Also 'I am a seagull... no, I am a hedgehog'.

Lots of juicy discussion going on hither and yon provoked by this post of
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This sounds absolutely fascinating: The Olive Schreiner Letters Project, not just because Schreiner is a fascinating character and important feminist thinker, but for the theoretical and analytical stuff they're doing around letters, editing letters, publishing them, etc, and in a way that is exquisitely sensitive to the contingencies of survival ( Read more... )