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• Curiosities! (20 Oct 2017)
• The best bit of the WWW website, and what else could be added (12 Oct 2017)
• The fire next time? Part 5, Some comparisons of student protests, 1920s/50s, and 2015/2016 (5 Oct 2017)
• The fire next time? Part 4, Lovedale riots 1920, 1946 & others (28 Sept 2017)
• The fire next time? Part 3, an Eliasian view of the crisis (22 Sept 2017)
• The fire next time? Part 2, making sense of the crisis (14 Sept 2017)
• The fire next time? Part 1, universities in crisis (8 Sept 2017)
• ‘The letter’, by the White Rabbit, the Red King & the Knave of Hearts (1 Sept 2017)
• Ordinary correspondence (24 Aug 2017)
• Exciting announcement (18 Aug 2017)
• More on correspondence (10 Aug 2017)
• Correspondence (3 Aug 2017)
• Lovely letters (27 Jul 2017)
• Where there’s a Will, there’s a way? (20 Jul 2017)
• End of news mags, More on scribbling (13 Jul 2017)
• Busy week (7 Jul 2017)
• Newtonian scribblings (30 Jun 2017)
• ‘Various’ (22 Jun 2017)
• Counting on you (15 Jun 2017)
• News on international archives day, elections, books, e-books and a magazine (8 Jun 2017)
• The Racialising Process: Whites Writing Whiteness in Letters, South Africa 1770s-1970s (1 Jun 2017)
• Whose collection is it? (25 May 2017)
• A book ms update & two thoughts on letters (18 May 2017)
• No news is good news (12 May 2017)
• Is it a website, is it a Kindle, is it a print book? (5 May 2017)
• Who writes a letter? Love to all you folks from Umquaka (27 Apr 2017)
• On the figuration (21 Apr 2017)
• Oh for some letters! (13 Apr 2017)
• Publication ahoy to starboard! (7 Apr 2017)
• 10 Downing Street, Dear President Tusk (30 Mar 2017)
• “…so I go with them to day…” (23 Mar 2017)
• Joseph Stirk’s Journal, some more on reporting, something on conferencing (16 Mar 2017)
• Over the last week… reporting (9 Mar 2017)
• More of the same, and two rings that bound them? (2 Mar 2017)
• On the panikin filled to the brim (24 Feb 2017)
• Housekeeping Progress (16 Feb 2017)
• Not Quite…. (10 Feb 2017)
• Seeing Soweto (2 Feb 2017)
• Spring cleaning! (27 Jan 2017)
• Power of the Metaphorical in Archive Research: Paper Call (20 Jan 2017)
• Women’s History in the Digital World (20 Jan 2017)
• Elizabeth Price Letters – Genre Busting! (20 Jan 2017)
• Tracing the trace (12 Jan 2017)
• Instantiations and ontologies: Part 2 of the Henry Francis Fynn letters (5 Jan 2017)
• A New Year’s blog! (1 Jan 2017)
• Assemblages, absences and heterotopias: The Henry Francis Fynn letters part 1 (29 Dec 2016)
• Signs of growth: new life for letters (22 Dec 2016)
• Falling in archival love – Emagusheni trading station (15 Dec 2016)
• Of Cockroaches, Gunshot and Collections: Durban (8 Dec 2016)
• The Voss Collection, Some Observations (1 Dec 2016)
• The Forbes ‘business’ letters: Overviewing comments (24 Nov 2016)
• Archival silences and sounds (17 Nov 2016)
• Cleaning data files, post-London, pre-Pretoria (10 Nov 2016)
• What is social change and how does it happen? (4 Nov 2016)
• More postcards from the LMS collection (27 Oct 2016)
• 7 postcards from the LMS collection (20 Oct 2016)
• New archival fieldwork! (13 Oct 2016)
• 50,000 letters! (6 Oct 2016)
• Special Announcement – Call for Papers: Archives & traces of the past (4 Oct 2016)
• Screen writing (29 Sept 2016)
• Familiar names in unfamiliar places: networks & connections (22 Sept 2016)
• Some Schreiner letters sold (15 Sept 2016)
• Letter-writing manuals (8 Sept 2016)
• Cultural imperialism, or what? Rethinking Dr Philip (1 Sept 2016)
• Leaving no stone unturned! (25 Aug 2016)
• The oddities of whiteness: ‘injury to his character’ in interesting times (18 Aug 2016)
• ♫ Gimme a ticket for an aeroplane, sincerely L. Stanley ♫ (11 Aug 2016)
• The Manifold Writer (4 Aug 2016)
• Scientific articles and scientific letters (28 Jul 2016)
• When Nixon became ex-President of the US (21 Jul 2016)
• Announcing Publication of The Archives Project (14 Jul 2016)
• The letter and the gun (14 Jul 2016)
• Dear George [Bush]… Yours ever Tony [Blair] (7 Jul 2016)
• Admiral Lord Nelson’s letter: The importance of context (1 Jul 2016)
• Letters from some Romans: the Bloomberg tablets (23 Jun 2016)
• Letters again in the news (16 Jun 2016)
• Envelopes (9 Jun 2016)
• The earliest letter ever discovered in Britain! (2 Jun 2016)
• The archive from your desk? (26 May 2016)
• Notes, scribbles, lists, inventories (19 May 2016)
• Seeing whiteness (12 May 2016)
• Scribbling – a letter to oneself? (7 May 2016)
• The Guptas, state capture and an ‘Oakbay employees’ letter (28 Apr 2016)
• The Lost Art of Letter Writing (21 Apr 2016)
• Mail and post: changing meanings (14 Apr 2016)
• Letters on a train (8 Apr 2016)
• Reasons and excuses for not writing letters (31 Mar 2016)
• Settler colonialism and migrant letters (24 Mar 2016)
• Do men and women write different kinds of letters? (18 Mar 2016)
• A Schreiner Cabinet (10 Mar 2016)
• Announcing The Archive Project! (10 Mar 2016)
• The letters of Charlotte Brontë (3 Mar 2016)
• Another New Collection of Schreiner Letters! (2 Mar 2016)
• Olive Schreiner’s letters and whites writing whiteness (25 Feb 2016)
• Facts: sequence and series, v. biographical claims (18 Feb 2016)
• NEW SCHREINER LETTERS FOUND! (11 Feb 2016)
• Is a blog a letter? (4 Feb 2016)
• Part III: Telling apart: on ellipsis and letters real and fictional (28 Jan 2016)
• Part II: Letters, real (but not ordinary) (21 Jan 2016)
• Part I: Letters, proper and real (14 Jan 2016)
• Seeing: Apartheid in words and pictures (7 Jan 2016)
• A brief 2015 round-up (31 Dec 2015)
• ‘A wicked perversion’ – the other whiteness (26 Dec 2015)
• Not-seeing and whiteness (19 Dec 2015)
• More on Desmond and communication (17 Dec 2015)
• The Rhodes Papers, Summary Thoughts (8 Dec 2015)
• Storm Desmond! (8 Dec 2015)
• Archive time (28 Nov 2015)
• In Oxford: From Rhodes House to the Weston Library (20 Nov 2015)
• How to interpret? To the letter or what? (12 Nov 2015)
• What is the archive? (5 Nov 2015)
• More on ‘the trace’ (29 Oct 2015)
• Some small but important matters (24 Oct 2015)
• Methodology 3: Figure/ground – the writer and the written (15 Oct 2015)
• Methodology 2: curiosity and agape (10 Oct 2015)
• Methodology 1: analysing the Forbes letters (9 Oct 2015)
• The Archive Project Send off! (25 Sept 2015)
• Letterless in Cardiff (20 Sept 2015)
• Faux Letters (10 Sept 2015)
• Stop press – Archives, Art & Activism (5 Sept 2015)
• An archive has no beginning, an archive has no end…? (4 Sept 2015)
• Where there’s a Will… (28 Aug 2015)
• Pringling! (20 Aug 2015)
• Formal letters (15 Aug 2015)
• The order and the letter (10 Aug 2015)
• The form and the letter (2 Aug 2015)
• The trace (24 Jul 2015)
• The now/past (17 Jul 2015)
• What do we do, about the past? (11 Jul 2015)
• Leap seconds! (2 Jul 2015)
• More on what an archive is (26 Jun 2015)
• What is an archive? (24 Jun 2015)
• Norbert Elias – 118 today! (22 Jun 2015)
• Letters, texts, assemblages, R programming (14 Jun 2015)
• Digital Humanities & what is a collection? (9 Jun 2015)
• A discipline, inter-discipline, multi-discipline… (4 Jun 2015)
• Dockets: A parallel form to the letter? (29 May 2015)
• From SOAS, on the LMS (22 May 2015)
• Archive Project book on the way! (15 May 2015)
• Writing, writing, writing… (8 May 2015)
• How to map an archive collection (1 May 2015)
• Analysing a letter in detail (25 Apr 2015)
• Andrea goes, Emilia arrives  (18 Apr 2015)
• WWW Website Use (12 Apr 2015)
• The ‘Weekly Blog’ photo (4 Apr 2015)
• Ending a research project with/out panicking (27 Mar 2015)
• Liz Stanley Awarded Digital Humanities Fellowship, NHRC North Carolina, USA (19 Mar 2015)
• Is the letter now dead? (14 Mar 2015)
• Puzzles, Problems & Possibilities: Archival Fieldwork (Jan – Mar 2015) (10 weekly blog posts!)
• Doing Archival Research: Pointers from the Cory Fieldtrip (Jul – Aug 2014) (49 daily blog posts!)
• What is a migrant letter? (17 Jul 2014)
• Figuring it out – Inventories, figurations and letters to Robert Godlonton (25 Jun 2014)
• Peter Alexander’s ‘Marikana, turning point in South African history’ Review of African Political Economy (15 Apr 2014)
• Review of Giordano Nanni’s The Colonisation of Time on Colonial Families website (14 April 2014)
• Thinking with Norbert Elias, about ‘race’ and the representational order of letter-writing by white South Africans (6 Feb 2014)
• Rhodes the Matrix (21 Oct 2013)
• From Gottlob Schreiner to Cecil Rhodes via the Cape Colony Letters: The development of the WWW Project database (26 Sept 2013)
• Researching social change & whiteness in South Africa 1770s-1970s (16 Apr 2013)
• ‘Whose QLR is QLR?’ (17 Feb 2013)
• ‘Just in time?’ (8 Jan 2013)
• ‘Elephants in the room!’ (23 Nov 2012)