The slideshow from Richard Rodger's talk:
Digital History: Space, place and the City: A simple anti-GIS approach for historians
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On smallpox and pseudomedicine:
http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/index.php/smallpox-and-pseydomedicine/
I've also been reading Michael Willrich's Pox: An American History -- fascinating look at how a smaller-than-microscopic, not-even-really-alive virion could reveal so much about American culture and politics.
http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/index.php/smallpox-and-pseydomedicine/
I've also been reading Michael Willrich's Pox: An American History -- fascinating look at how a smaller-than-microscopic, not-even-really-alive virion could reveal so much about American culture and politics.
And the John Murray archives have hit the big time http:// www .scotsman .com /news /National -Library -archive -gets -Unesco .6773324 .jp . It's been recognized by UNESCO as an archive of "outstanding cultural significance."