Tools and methods

1930s, Australia, Books, Tools and methods

You gotta love the Internet

In a previous post I wondered whether the authors of the 1934 knock-out blow novel Invasion from the Air, Frank McIlraith and Roy Connolly, might have been left-wing, as the artist who (apparently) was supposed to illustrate the book was a communist. I hadn’t been able to turn up any biographical information about either of […]

Tools and methods

Backup or die!

Patahistory notes this horror story about a student having her USB drive stolen – and with it, her only copy of her nearly complete PhD thesis. Although she did manage to recover the drive, Dave suggests that this is a timely reminder to make backups. Absolutely! I work as an IT manager in an academic

1920s, 1930s, Plots and tables, Tools and methods

Climbing

From the just-because-I-can department. As an ex-physicist, I like to see numerical data plotted in a graph, as well as in tabular form – it’s much easier to visualise what’s going on. I don’t have any particular need for this right now, but I’ve been playing around with a few plotting packages anyway. The figure

Thesis, Tools and methods

LaTeX: the pain, the pleasure

As befits a self-respecting Unix geek, I’ve pretty much finally decided that I will write my thesis in LaTeX, and not in Word (which is what I have been using for the last few years). I am a bit nervous about this. Most historians, I’m sure, have never heard of it, and indeed the typical

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