Speaking as someone who had two submission deadlines of 31 Dec... Yes. (Though I wish I would remember to remind myself not to agree to such deadlines, which ruin the run up to the festive triple: my birthday, Christmas, New Year. Even when I use 22 Dec as the actual deadline.)
Whether it's a 'rotary' printing machine or not depends on whether we think that righthand cylinder is carrying curved printing plates (=rotary press, Hoe 1843, not common in Britain till 1850+) or sheets of paper printed by a flat platen underneath (=cylinder press, 1814 / Applegath 1827)
See my response on the other place... Compare this image: press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
I love the cover - a 1925 Asafo flag - for the forthcoming "Edinburgh Companion to British Colonial Periodicals", edited by Caroline Davis, David Finkelstein, David Johnson, for which I contributed a chapter on British anarchism and the colonial question. edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-the-edi...
We'd just moved to St Andrews and got the impression that it was a very cold place with lots of snow (only one of those is roughly true). We also had to urgently buy warmer baby clothes for our 4-month-old daughter (since her elder sister's cast-offs had suited life on the west coast in summer)
READ 'Open access research outputs receive more diverse citations' (Huang, Neylon et al): OA generates more citations, and from more sorts of people; apparently there is evidence of greater use in regions that historically have poor access to closed research outputs. hcommons.social/@cameronneyl...
The Oxford University Museum of Natural History is looking for a Project Archivist, to work on the newly-acquired archives relating to the geologist William Buckland (1785-1856). This is a full-time post for 18 months. Apply by 15th January. #histsci#geooumnh.web.ox.ac.uk/project-arch...
JOBS: Calling archivists who'd like to live and work somewhere with lovely beaches, and a great Library/Museums/Archives team... Digital Archivist vacancies.st-andrews.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...vacancies.st-andrews.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...
Don't get me wrong: I'm delighted to be able to read Timothy Alborn's facscinating book Regulated Lives (about the Victorian life insurance industry) from the comfort of my home office but three files??Seriously? (DeGruyter!)
Some publishers need to think a bit more about what readers of academic ebooks need: it's frustrating if, in order to read Chapter 8, I need to download not just its PDF but also the file with the endnotes for the whole book; and also the file with the abbreviations used in those notes...