Suddenly, I seem to have been busy.
A full day down at Lake View, documenting Henry Handel Richardson memorabilia, including a typewriter that certainly wasn't hers, a session of the local family history group, which introduced me to the joys of Trello, and a morning up at the Athenaeum building a controlled vocabulary of book publisher names.
The last part is part of preparing the heritage book collection data for upload to Victorian collections and I realised that the names of the publishers had been entered inconsistently in the original spreadsheet, and that we would need to standardise them.
Fortunately wikipedia is pretty good on nineteenth century publishers, and where it fails there's a couple of other good reliable resources, and I've only found two publishers so far that don't seem to have left a trace - a pre-World War II Australian publisher of thrillers, and an English publisher, Juvenile Productions that seems to have specialised in 1950s editions of out of copyright chilren's classics such as Alice in Wonderland.
As well as all that I've done a little more research on assaults on women in railway carriages in the 1880s, and finally run to ground some nineteenth century photographs of a hip-bath in use, courtesy of an archive of Eadweard Muybridge photographs, and found time to convert my Dell Latitude from Lubuntu to Ubuntu.
All good fun ...
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