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Glubb Pasha and the Arab Legion: Britain, Jordan, and the end of empire in the Middle East
During the 1950s, John Glubb and the Arab Legion became the 'cornerstone' of Britain's imperial presence in the Middle East. Based on unprecedented access to the unofficial archive of the Arab Legion, including a major accession of Glubb's private papers, Graham Jevon examines and revises Britain's post-1945 retreat from empire...Jevon, Graham
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Book chapter
‘A trifling matter’? State branding on stone bottles, 1812-1834
Nineteenth-century stone bottles used for liquid blacking and alcohol are among the most frequently recovered nineteenth-century objects. Such items often display proprietary marks that provide tantalizing hints about the former owners or use of the bottle and have received considerable attention from collectors, archaeologists and curators. This chapter, based upon...Basford, Jennifer
stone bottle, statehood, Hungate, branding, archaeology, eighteenth century, nineteenth century, York, and Excise
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Book chapter
'Columen Vitae': pharmaceutical packaging, 1750-1850
Medical products, predominantly sold by newspaper and book printers, became the most heavily advertised branded good throughout the eighteenth century. Proprietary medicines were big business and so counterfeits were rife; protecting the brand was crucial. Proprietors aimed to convince consumers of the medicine’s authenticity, its reliability and, on occasion, its...Basford, Jennifer
promotional material, branding, material culture, proprietary medicines, and eighteenth century
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Journal article
Library catalogue records as a research resource : introducing 'A Big Data History of Music'
Librarians and archivists are increasingly collecting and working with large quantities of digital data. In science, business, and now the humanities, the production and analysis of vast amounts of data (so-called ‘big data research’) have become fundamental activities. This article introduces the project A Big Data History of Music, a...Tuppen, Sandra ; Rose, Stephen ; Drosopoulou, Loukia
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Journal article
Writing a Big Data history of music
This article introduces the project A Big Data History of Music, which set out to unlock the bibliographical data held by research libraries in order to create new research opportunities for musicologists. The project cleaned and enhanced aspects of the British Library catalogues of printed and manuscript music, which are...Rose, Stephen ; Tuppen, Sandra ; Drosopoulou, Loukia
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Conference paper (published)
Prospects for a Big Data History of Music
This position paper sets out the possibility of a musicology based on the analysis of musical-bibliographical metadata as Big Data. It outlines the work underway, as part of the AHRC-funded project A Big Data History of Music, to align seven major datasets of musical-bibliographical metadata. After discussing some of the...Rose, Stephen ; Tuppen, Sandra
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Journal article
Complicating the story of popular science: John Maynard Smith’s 'Little Penguin' on The Theory of Evolution
Popular science writing has received increasing interest, especially in its relation to professional science. I extend the current scholarly focus from the nineteenth to the twentieth century by providing a microhistory of the early popular writings of evolutionary biologist John Maynard Smith (1920–2004). Linking them to the state of evolutionary...Piel, Helen
popular science, science communication, Neo-Darwinism, evolutionary theory, and John Maynard Smith
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Journal article
Participation in heritage crowdsourcing
This paper draws upon the experience of several years of running a multi-application crowdsourcing platform, as well as a longitudinal evaluation of participant profiles, motivations and behaviour, to argue that heritage crowdsourcing cannot straightforwardly be considered a democratising form of cultural participation. While we agree that crowdsourcing helps expand public...Bonacchi, Chiara ; Bevan, Andrew ; Keinan-Schoonbaert, Adi ; Pett, Daniel ; Wexler, Jennifer
audience development, crowdsourcing, cultural participation, GLAM, representation, and heritage
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Conference paper (unpublished)
‘If the package is right, the pills are right’: Proprietary medicines, branding, and advertising, 1650-1850
Medical products, predominantly sold by newspaper and book printers, became the most heavily advertised branded good throughout the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. This fact, combined with the ever-increasing availability of digitised contemporary newspapers, has generated important work upon their advertisement and distribution. These studies have considerably enriched our understanding of...Basford, Jennifer
branding, material culture, advertising, proprietary medicine, and packaging