A first: My history research has become obscure enough that right here, in the highly-trafficked Reid Library at the University of Western Australia, I pulled a couple of books in a row off a shelf and had to blow dust off them. (The scatter of dust that leaps into the air as you tug them off the shelf sparkles in the light, and warns you that ( Read more... )

You know you've been concentrating on tutorial readings a lot when, taking a break to read other things on the internet, you have the urge to highlight bits and write margin notes and comments. That a lot of my online reading at the moment is RaceFail09 links... well ( Read more... )

ENABLEnet, the WiFi at the State Library of Western Australia, is... temperamental. I'm having pretty much no luck with it, but I can live with that ( Read more... )

THE MIRROR. No. 83. Tuesday, February 22, 1780 ( Read more... )

So, I accidentally lost my previous draft of this, but ( Read more... )

So, I've finally finished transcribing the first of two articles I photographed today.

The following was first published in April 1740. Note that I have transcribed into modern font (e.g. all those esses I've put in) and that all proper nouns were italicised in the original. I'm not cutting the final paragraph because I think it's brilliantly ( Read more... )

So, I've been hanging out in the library since my lecture ended at 11, both restoring my sanity levels (yesterday I got too overstimulated, I need a quiet, restful day today) and doing necessary work for History.

I'd forgotten how good this feels - the thrill, the charge of reading books, tracking sources, finding texts. In addition to the Times ( Read more... )

It's amazing how much my posting rate goes up when I have interesting-to-me non-angst-based things to write about ( Read more... )

Liveblogging: Tutorial

( Possibly fewer notes. )

I thought my SNAP access had somehow broken today, but it turned out it was just the SNAP deadzone around ALR 8 and 9. (Which I have already reported to a relevant authority. *cough*) Ended up going to the library to download lecture recordings, where, at SISO, I had the reassuring presence of cthulhubitch to keep me from panicking ( Read more... )