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Lesley A Hall, archivist and historian: What's online is < 1% of the primary sources worldwide
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Lesley A Hall, archivist and historian. Sunday, 22 June 2014. If Dan Snow thinks he can do history by searching primary source material from the comfort and convenience of his office. I refer back to my post in late April. Flagging up the problems of what is given priority in digitisation programmes, how complete it is, how much necessary context is there. 23 June 2014 at 12:36. I do appreciate what youre trying to say here and that it relates specifically to comments made by one person. But I do wor...
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Lesley A Hall, archivist and historian: Forthcoming talk
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Lesley A Hall, archivist and historian. Sunday, 25 January 2015. Compared to this time last year, when I seemed to be on an endless treadmill of giving talks on a wide variety of topics in different venues, I don't have much on my dance-card at the moment. However, I shall be giving the following talk to the Queer Studies Forum at the University of Westminster on 9th Feb at 6.30 pm:. 8216;‘‘Bearded Fruit-Juice Drinkers” : the Queerness of Interwar Progressives’. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Last s...
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Lesley A Hall, archivist and historian: New Year message: The bizarre timescales of academic publishing
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Lesley A Hall, archivist and historian. Thursday, 1 January 2015. New Year message: The bizarre timescales of academic publishing. The year, however, when everybody started saying to me 'Wow, you are so prolific. What you see can be quite misleading. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). London, United Kingdom. View my complete profile. Lesley Hall's Web Pages. March of the women. Other sites I'm at. My Academia.edu Page. Other places of interest. H-Albion: British and Irish History Discussion List. Upcomi...
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Lesley A Hall, archivist and historian: Eras are ending all the time, and new ones starting
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Lesley A Hall, archivist and historian. Wednesday, 26 November 2014. Eras are ending all the time, and new ones starting. To anyone who has been keeping up (not that I'm sure I'm entirely kept up, because these things are developing all the time) with the historiographical area of 'Soho Studies', so ably undertaken by Frank Mort in Capital Affairs: The Making of the Permissive Society. 2010) and Judith Walkowitz in Nights Out: Life in Cosmopolitan London (2012). 8220;Bohemia is always yesterday,” w...
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Lesley A Hall, archivist and historian: June 2015
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Lesley A Hall, archivist and historian. Thursday, 11 June 2015. Acquisition is not enough. I meant to post something about the discovery of the missing prints at the Boston Public Library. Last week in connection with the various comments made in press reports and blog posts about the failure of institutions with substantial document and artefact collections to have adequate collection control in the form of an inventory. Is the institution a place where researchers are going to look? Books, manuscripts,...
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Women and medicine
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Hygieia's Handmaids: Women, Health and Healing: A catalogue of an exhibition at the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 19th September-16th December 1988. Women and the medical professions. The text of my lecture given to the Society of Apothecaries Diploma in the History of Medicine Course, 1994-1998, 2001-2003. Some of the material on the C20th featured in my paper on women in medicine and science in Sybil Oldfield's volume,. Plus the associated handouts:. Women in medicine: some figures.
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Lesley A Hall, archivist and historian: Catherine Lee, Policing Prostitution, 1856–1886: Deviance, Surveillance and Morality (Pickering and Chatto, 2012)
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Lesley A Hall, archivist and historian. Monday, 6 July 2015. Catherine Lee, Policing Prostitution, 1856–1886: Deviance, Surveillance and Morality (Pickering and Chatto, 2012). This annoyingly had been announced but came out rather too late for me to incorporate its insights into my revised edition of Sex, Gender and Social Change. 9 July 2015 at 20:24. This comment has been removed by the author. 10 July 2015 at 20:38. Posted on behalf of Judith Walkowitz (edited version):. I want to second Lesley’...
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Lesley A Hall, archivist and historian: Acquisition is not enough
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Lesley A Hall, archivist and historian. Thursday, 11 June 2015. Acquisition is not enough. I meant to post something about the discovery of the missing prints at the Boston Public Library. Last week in connection with the various comments made in press reports and blog posts about the failure of institutions with substantial document and artefact collections to have adequate collection control in the form of an inventory. Is the institution a place where researchers are going to look? Books, manuscripts,...
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Lesley A Hall, archivist and historian: July 2015
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Lesley A Hall, archivist and historian. Monday, 6 July 2015. Catherine Lee, Policing Prostitution, 1856–1886: Deviance, Surveillance and Morality (Pickering and Chatto, 2012). This annoyingly had been announced but came out rather too late for me to incorporate its insights into my revised edition of Sex, Gender and Social Change. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). London, United Kingdom. View my complete profile. Lesley Hall's Web Pages. March of the women. Other sites I'm at. My Academia.edu Page. The FRAGEN ...
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Lesley A Hall, archivist and historian: Twitter is a limited forum for discussing 1920s contraception
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Lesley A Hall, archivist and historian. Monday, 6 October 2014. Twitter is a limited forum for discussing 1920s contraception. Further to an exchange on Twitter apropos of (didn't see this, only reported) instance in Downtown Abbey. And by her and Simon Szreter in Sex before the Sexual Revolution. The really sophisticated cosmopolitan woman might hear about and resort to one of the early forms of intrauterine devices that had been around since the early 1900s, principally the Grafenburg ring,. In England...
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