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Using Google Scholar Alerts as a Research Tool

January 10, 2013by Ross 3 Comments

Historians, and most academics for that matter, can be very parochial. We tend to look in the same sources for information. We tend to look down our own silos. For […]

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Academia, PhD, Research, Technology

The Rise and Fall of…

December 20, 2010by Ross 3 Comments

Thanks to Brett over at Airminded for bringing this to my attention. It is Google’s Ngram Viewer, which I have to admit is rather cool. The basis of it is […]

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Air Power, ILT, PhD, Research, Royal Air Force, Technology

The Importance of Backing up your Work…

September 2, 2010by Ross 4 Comments

This may seem like a fairly obvious thing to do for a PhD student but this past week has really brought home the necessity of making sure that you regularly […]

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ILT, PhD, Research, Technology

War Cabinet (ukwarcabinet) on Twitter

June 2, 2010by Ross 1 Comment

War Cabinet (ukwarcabinet) on Twitter This is a great post-blogging project using the social media Twitter. The purpose of it is to: Watch WWII unfold day by day through original Cabinet […]

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Blogging, Technology

Museum Visits

January 22, 2008by Ross Leave a comment

While doing research over the past few months I been able to visit both sites of the RAF Museum at Hendon and Cosford. Hendon was for research and Cosford was […]

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Air Power, Technology

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