A Grammar of Colouring "A compilation of the 1800s chemist, George Field, intended to give decorative artists information on the origin, composition and properties of various pigments, dyes and paints." with art-and-designcolour
A Quick Guide to Sans-Serif Fonts "The first documented usage of sans-serif type was in 1723, by Scottish scholar Thomas Dempster, in his book De Etruria regali libri VII." [http://main-cat.nls.uk/vwebv/search?searchArg1=etruria&argType1=all&searchCode1=TKEY&combine2=and&searchArg2=dempster&argType2=all&searchCode2=NKEY&combine3=and&searchArg3=&argType3=all&searchCode3=GKEY&year=2013-2013&fromYear=&toYear=&location=all&place=all&type=all&language=all&recCount=25&searchType=2&page.search.search.button=Search] with typography
A Vision of Britain through Time "A Vision of Britain through Time brings together historical surveys of Britain to create a record of how the country and its localities have changed." with history
Abandoned Communities "Since the Middle Ages thousands of towns, villages, and other human communities in Great Britain have been abandoned [...] This website commemorates all abandoned communities..." with history
AccountKiller "AccountKiller collects direct links and deleting instructions to make account termination easy. Websites like Skype that do not allow deleting your profile in an easy way at all get blacklisted..." with computers-internet-databy 4 users
AI on the risks of artificial intelligence in libraries "Last week we asked Chat GPT about the impact of AI on libraries and got a summary of things AI could be used for. DTG felt this was not a balanced view of the full ‘impact’ so we asked a slightly more direct question about the risks." with library-managementwork
An Image of Sound (BBC R4) "Photographer Andrew Heptinstall's quest to represent sound within a photograph [...] He spends a day on Hadrian's Wall with blind photographer Rosita McKenzie and meets Prof. Fiona Macpherson from Glasgow University to gain an insight into human senses and perception." with photography
Andy Goldsworthy Digital Catalogue A sample of entries from the Goldsworthy Digital Catalogue DVD Vol.1 (1976-1986). "The catalogue documents [...] the first ten years of Andy Goldsworthy's ephemeral, outdoor practice [...] and includes previously unpublished material from Goldsworthy's Sketchbook Diaries." with image-galleriesphotography
Archives Hub "The Archives Hub is a free service describing physical and digitised collections held in higher education, specialist, local authority, business and other research archives. It is updated every week with new content." with history
Argleton, Lancashire "The town of Argleton has a postal code and appears on maps and even real estate listings, yet it does not exist." with maps-and-mapping
Art UK "Art UK is the online home for every public art collection in the UK […] and our website represents a collaboration between over 3,200 British institutions." with art-and-designimage-galleries
Articulating value and impact through outcome-centered service delivery "The purpose of this paper is to share the ways in which student and learning support at the University of Sunderland has embedded and matured a new outcome-centered performance model – the Quality Model – in order to create an agile evidence-base of value, outcome and impact evidence." with library-management
Audio restoration "...the home of easy-to-use, high-quality shareware audio restoration software, designed for restoring your own gramophone records and other recordings..." with musicsoftwareby 4 users
Ballast Trust "The Ballast Trust is a charitable foundation that provides a rescue, sorting and cataloguing service for business archives with an emphasis on technical records such as shipbuilding, railway and engineering plans, drawings and photographs..." with history
Beginners’ Latin A beginners' online tutorial for Latin from the period 1086–1733. with history
Benday "The Benday process is so obvious and apparently intuitive that it’s a bit of a surprise to discover that it had to be invented. This took place in 1879 when Benjamin Henry Day Jr. came up with the method." with printing-and-publishing
Bitcoin Energy Consumption Index "Ever since its inception Bitcoin’s trust-minimizing consensus has been enabled by its proof-of-work algorithm. The machines performing the “work” are consuming huge amounts of energy while doing so. The Bitcoin Energy Consumption Index was created to provide insight into this amount, and raise awareness on the unsustainability of the proof-of-work algorithm." with computers-internet-data