• The '£3m scandal' of the lost World War One airfield
  Loch Doon gunnery school was "...one of the most 'striking wastes of public money' on record..."
  with history
• The art of being in the right place at the right time : Street photographs by Lesley Ann Ercolano
  with image-galleries photography
• The best digital slide converters
  Review Geek
  with photography
• The City Observatory
  Site history.
  with buildings-and-architecture edinburgh
• The defensible deletion of government email (J Lappin et al)
  Records Management Journal, 29(1/2), 2019 -- "The paper looks at the policy of The National Archives (TNA) towards UK government email and maps it against the approaches present in records management and information governance thought."
  with records-management
• The Dumb Money
  "The definitive explanation of why Bitcoin is stupid."
  with computers-and-it
• The Edward Clark Collection
  "The Edward Clark Collection [Edinburgh Napier University, Merchiston Campus] illustrates the development of the book from the 15th century, concentrating on the development of typography, the techniques of printing illustrations, and fine bindings."
  with printing-and-publishing
• The Enfield Thunderbolt
  "...the story of the pioneering Enfield 8000, a 1970s electric car built on the Isle of Wight."
  with electric-vehicles
• The first global urban planning conference was mostly about manure
  "The problem was horses. And their copious poop."
  with miscellany
• The future of silk
  "Silk is stronger than steel or kevlar. We are already using it to transport vaccines without cold chains and make automatically dissolving stitches. What else could it be used for?"
  with miscellany
• The gods of Egypt
  Introduction to Egyptian mythology
  Ancient Egyptian Mythology. Meet the Gods of the Pyramids. :
  belief egypt egyptian goddess gods kemet legends mythology nile pharoah pyramids research sphinx worship
  with history
• The grammar of ornament : Illustrated by examples from various styles of ornament
  NLS catalogue entry. "First published in 1856... All styles of ornamental decoration are covered: Egyptian, Persian, Greek, Roman, Indian, Chinese. It also contains the Manifesto of Design that inspired design greats like William Morris."
  with art-and-design
• The great chain of being sure about things
  "The technology [sc. blockchains] behind bitcoin lets people who do not know or trust each other build a dependable ledger. This has implications far beyond the cryptocurrency."
  with computers-and-it
• The Hubris Hub
  "...a resource for managers, researchers and students on the subject of hubris and hubristic leadership. Its aim is to help people to understand the hubris hazard, appreciate the risks it presents and combat the dangers that it poses."
  with management-and-productivity
• The Illustration Archive
  "...over a million illustrations from works of literature, philosophy, history and geography that are in the British Library’s collection and were scanned by Microsoft."
  with image-galleries
• The impact of Copilot on records management : Some predictions
  "Any attempt to shift end-user behaviour to do more work outside of individual accounts or to move content out of individual accounts will face an uphill struggle because Copilot will reinforce rather than challenge the behaviour of working and storing content in individual accounts."
  with records-management
• The Kingpin of Fakers : Colonel Dinshah P. Ghadiali and the Spectro-Chrome
  "…Ghadiali, who invented the Spectro-Chrome in 1920, claimed to be able to cure almost everything with its twelve colors […] 'Stop Insulin at once,' he advised diabetics, 'and irradiate yourself with Yellow Systemic alternated with Magenta [...] and eat plenty of Raw or Brown Sugar and all the Starches!!!.'"
  with miscellany
• The leadership delusion
  [The] 'leadership delusion' is located in a functional approach to leadership where the assumption is that removing dysfunctions from organisations through efficient and effective delivery will automatically bring about changes to standards."
  with management-and-productivity
• The Library Assessment Capability Maturity Model : A means of optimizing how libraries measure effectiveness
  "This paper presents a Library Assessment Capability Maturity Model (LACMM) that can assist library managers to improve assessment. The process of developing the LACMM is detailed to provide an evidence trail to foster confidence in its utility and value."
  with library-management
• The Linux Shop
  "Buy Linux on CD, DVD and USB sticks."
  with computers-and-it

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