Cambridge Digital Library: some shots of one treasure

Treasures of the Library > Life of St Edward the Confessor  by Matthew ParisThe Battle of Stamford Bridge and the death of Harald Hardrada (wielding a battleaxe).(image 70, page 32v)

The landing of King Harald Hardrada near York, and the defeat of the Northumbrian army.(image 67, page 31r)

The battle of Hastings. Harold lies on the ground lower-right, an arrow in his left eye.(image 74, page 34v) 

El Hadjii-Diouf: the jury is out

El Hadji-Diouf- the butt of many a joke and clearly a perfect candidate for clever GIF editing types to work over.
I stumbled on this in a thread that I got to after cursing that I wasn't in New York to visit exhibitions at the Museum of the Moving Image.

Israel road trip in 2010

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View some of the photographs from this trip

Spending a little bit of time looking at maps and Google earth again. Getting excited about what I could do with them. Better not get too carried away with it all.

War memorial (Zulu?) vs Argentinian flag

How confusing. I didn't get chance to inspect this but thought it odd the two things together

War Memorial, George Square, Glasgow

London Street Scene

Another cropping of a scan.

I really should be doing them at higher resolution but I kind of like the effect. This is Lombard street in the City. Probably lugging around gold or something. 

Boy in the photograph

Take another look at the boy in the foreground. The following text explains a little more about him. Surprised? I was:

"Little Mic-Mac Gosling," as the boy with the pitcher is familiarly called by all in his extended circle of friends and acquaintances, is seventeen years old, though he only reaches the height of three feet ten inches. He is, in fact, so small, and, at the same time, so intelligent for his size, that he once held an excellent situation as a lady's page; but I presume he is now getting too old for such an office. His bare feet, I should add, are not necessarily symptoms of poverty; for, as a sailor, and during a long voyage to South Africa, he learnt to dispense with boots and shoes while on deck.

Social media guidance for civil servants

The 29 page report was far too much to enjoy reading but it seems comprehensive enough and the above options made me chuckle a bit. They are options for:

'Tackling the infrastructure issues that can inhibit access to the internet and social media channels'.

Top tip that one about their legacy IE6 and IE7 installations. Truly modern Government running a legacy Civil Service. oO  

• Social media guidance (pdf, 1.87mb)

Book Cut-and-Shut

This is all a bit Catchphrase and perhaps a bit meta. I had a scanned image from a book of a bank scene from the 19th century. There are so many interesting interactions going on in the larger picture I decided to focus on some of them. I'm sure other people are interested in this kind of thing, for me I just like to see what we can easily do nowadays with digitised content using simple digital technologies. 

 Thanks for stopping. Bye!

Quicks Road: I do love an old(ish) sign

The Impressive Crystal Palace

Charles Booth and The Secret History of Our Streets

LSE:Curate #ASSK @LSE

Storify:LSECurate

We'll never get away with it...

...if you don't help

The Galaxy Note is a wonderful thing. Much time spent playing. That is all.

Beit Hanina, Jerusalem

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I visited this area in 2010 and stayed in a room we fondly called the bunker. This was because we weren't used to sleeping in a room with iron doors and a blast shield on the window, but by all accounts it's standard in these parts when it comes to new buildings. 
I remember seeing these green skips about. People filled them with rubbish and then burnt it all out. Quite a sight when they were going but also a real kicker for the environment. You can see all the crap in the background and that is actually one of many endearing memories of the trip. 
If you turn around on the view you will see a wall covered in graffiti. 

Seligman and Malinowski: LSE Anthropology

Even Malinowski had trouble getting grant funding... www2.lse.ac.uk/library/archiv…
— Kristina Killgrove (@BoneGirlPhD) May 26, 2012

via http://www2.lse.ac.uk/library/archive/online_resources/anthropology_at_lse/anthropology_at_lse_1.aspx

Following Up Stairs

Joseph Chamberlain and Beatrice Webb

A new years day diary entry, 1901, recalling relations with

 Joseph Chamberlain, influential politician and father

 of Neville Chamberlain,which began in 1882.

Beatrice Webb, 1900

Joseph Chamberlain

 

 "Then came the catastrophy of my life. At a London dinner party I met Joseph Chamberlain. At once, and I think on both sides, there arose the question of marriage. He was seeking a wife, attractive, docile and capable I was ripe for love: revelling in newly acquired health and freedom, my intelligence wide awake, my heart unclaimed.

[...]

"In all this business of life I remained hardheaded and cold, using whatever feminine charms I possessed to further my intellectual ends. Sentimental relationships I had: but the sentiment was always on the other side! Possibly I owe this debt to Chamberlain. He absorbed the whole of my sexual feeling."(1)

 Further reading:
Beatrice on Joseph
Joseph Chamberlain
Extract

Credit:
 LSE Digital Library and LSE Flickr

Girl in Pink

Girl in pink fading into nothingness. Words on chest 'I hate the way I look' x3. 2002, 1/5.

Moon + River over the course of a Tuesday

Two metres long. Best appreciated from three metres distance.  

Anatomical Artwork

At home in Wimbledon

We have art. Handpicked over the years from friends exhibitions. Worth every penny when I think about it. This is also huge and one of four pieces of anatomical artwork we have. One looks lewd but is in fact a cross-section of brain tissue. Yum, Yum!

Cracking Day

Back streets of Wimbledon

It was a cracking day spent in the office at home drying out a carpet after overnight flooding. I wish the office was not so large or carpeted. Goodbye Tuesday. You have been a strange day mostly involving me staring out of windows and at a computer screen. 

Not Instagram

I'm not passing judgement. How can I? I just haven't gone in for Instagram yet.

 I took these two pictures in a bathroom with funny mirror-glass tiles that are made to distort your reflection. 

I think at the time I'd had a couple and thought i'd stick it to Instagram by not using it. What was I thinking!