• RCAHMS albums on Flickr
  with history image-galleries
• Reading old documents
  "Our range of online tutorials on Latin and palaeography will help you to read documents from the medieval period and beyond, through practical activities and useful examples. [...] Use our online currency converter to find out how old prices compare with new."
  with history
• Recordkeeping for Good Governance Toolkit - PARBICA
  with records-management
• Records Management Masterclass : Cataloguing and File Preparation [TNA]
  "The National Archives’ file preparation e-learning course explains how to physically prepare records for transfer. This course is aimed at staff from government departments and other public record bodies who transfer records to The National Archives."
  with records-management
• Redrawing the map of Great Britain from a network of human interactions
  Ratti C, et al. (2010) Redrawing the Map of Great Britain from a Network of Human Interactions. PLoS ONE 5(12) "Do regional boundaries defined by governments respect the more natural ways that people interact across space? [...] Our partitioning algorithm yields geographically cohesive regions that correspond remarkably well with administrative regions, while unveiling unexpected spatial structures that had previously only been hypothesized..."
  with miscellany
• reMarkable 2 e-paper notebook
  with system:unfiled
• Retro TV Scratch Pad
  with gifts
• Retronaut
  "Retronaut is an online compendium of restored archive photographs. We choose each photograph because we think it won’t fit your map of the past. Or, in other words - we show you the past like you wouldn’t believe."
  with history image-galleries
• RIBApix
  90,000 unique images from the Royal Institute of British Architects' archive.
  with image-galleries
• Riley & Coe (6 Music)
  with music radio
• RIPE Database search
  IP address database.
  with computers-internet-data
• Riverside Museum of Transport, Glasgow
  with cars glam history
• Road sign fonts
  with typography
• Road traffic sign images for reproduction
  with art-and-design
• Robert Blomfield
  with image-galleries photography
• Robert Morham (Our Town Stories)
  "Robert Morham was Edinburgh’s City Architect and Superintendent of Works between 1873 and 1908." "Robert Morham was involved in renovating a number of the monumental buildings situated on Edinburgh's Calton Hill. In 1893 he oversaw alterations to the Observatory House, in 1895 the interior of The City Observatory was overhauled and then in 1895 he designed a new dome for the observatory."
  with buildings-and-architecture edinburgh history
• Rockarchive
  Fine art music photography.
  with gifts image-galleries photography
• Roman Roads of Britain
  A tube-style map
  with art-and-design gifts history maps-and-mapping
• Royal Mail trials refitted black cab electric vans
  with electric-vehicles
• Royal Observatory Calton Hill Edinburgh | Canmore
  with edinburgh electric-vehicles history
• Run of the Angels
  Grant Stinnett - Solo Bass
  with music
• SafeDeposits Scotland
  with my_stuff
• Samuel John Peploe
  The success story of a Scottish Colourist - Art UK
  with art-and-design
• Saul Leiter
  with image-galleries photography
• Scarfolk Council
  "Scarfolk is a town in North West England that did not progress beyond 1979. Instead, the entire decade of the 1970s loops ad infinitum."
  with humour
• Science & Society Picture Library Prints
  "Welcome to the official print sales site of the Science Museum Group, a collection of British museums comprised of the Science Museum, London, the National Railway Museum, York, the Science and Media Museum, Bradford, the Museum of Science and Industry, Manchester and Locomotion, Shildon."
  with gifts image-galleries
• Scotland in 3D - Victorian Virtual Reality
  Pete Blair's book
  with photography
• Scotland's Lost Country Houses
  with buildings-and-architecture history
• Scotland’s Garden and Landscape Heritage
  "...encourages the protection and study of our historic parks, gardens and designed landscapes."
  with history
• Scotland’s Printing Heritage
  "Scotland’s Printing Heritage promotes interest in the history of the printing industry, which is one of Scotland’s oldest and works with institutions across Scotland to ensure that printing archives and artefacts are not lost. It is the public face of the Scottish Printing Archival Trust, formed in 1988 to conserve knowledge and examples of Scotland’s printing heritage."
  with glam printing-and-publishing
• ScotlandsPeople
  "The ScotlandsPeople website is the official Scottish Government site for searching government records and archives. It is used by hundreds of thousands of people each year to apply for copies of official certificates and to research family history, biography, local history and social history. "
  with genealogy glam history
• ScotlandsPeople Image Library
  "Welcome to the image library, where you can search a selection of images from the National Records of Scotland's diverse collections and buy high-quality digital images for publication, broadcast or display."
  with history image-galleries
• ScotlandsPlaces
  "ScotlandsPlaces is a website that allows users to search across different national databases using geographic locations. The user is able to enter a place name or a coordinate to search across these collections or they can use the mapping in the website to both define and refine their search. The results pages provide the data relevant to the search conducted, from each of the project partners. These partners currently include: RCAHMS, NRS and NLS.
  with history
• Scottish Book Trade Index
  Lists details of people involved in printing in Scotland up to 1850. Includes printers, publishers, booksellers, bookbinders, printmakers, stationers, and papermakers.
  with history printing-and-publishing
• Scottish Business Archive
  "...covers almost all types of business and industrial activity in Scotland and the UK with over 400 collections from banking, confectioners and distillers to retail, solicitors and undertakers. Our holdings are particularly strong in relation to industrial concerns in the west of Scotland such as shipbuilding, railway locomotive manufacture, textiles and mining..."
  with history
• Scottish Business Archive (Glasgow University)
  "...covers almost all types of business and industrial activity in Scotland and the UK with over 400 collections... Our holdings are particularly strong in relation to industrial concerns in the west of Scotland such as shipbuilding, railway locomotive manufacture, textiles and mining."
  with glam
• Scottish Government Records Management Plan
  with records-management
• Scottish Monumental Inscriptions
  Transcribed Burial Ground downloads
  with history
• Scottish Motor Museum Trust, Alexandria
  "We preserve Scotland's largest private historic motoring photographic archive – The Robert Grieves Archive."
  with cars glam history image-galleries
• Scottish National Scale Model Show
  with models
• Scottish Post Office directories
  "Over 700 digitised directories covering most of Scotland and dating from 1773 to 1911."
  with glam
• Scottish Records Association
  "The SRA was founded in 1977 and is concerned with the preservation and use of historical records in Scotland. It provides a forum for users, owners and custodians of records to discuss matters relating to the records, their custody and conservation and research."
  with glam
• Scottish Vintage Vehicle Federation
  "The Scottish Vintage Vehicle Federation was established in November 1973 with the aims of publishing an events programme each year and maintaining a register of competitors."
  with cars
• Scran
  "Scran hosts over 400,000 amazing, fully-captioned images, sounds and film from over 300 museums, galleries, and archives..."
  with glam image-galleries
• Scrophularia landroveri
  The plant named after a Land Rover.
  with cars
• Seawards the Great Ships (1960)
  First Scottish film to win an Oscar (Live Action Short, 1961)
  with miscellany
• Second
  xkcd 1334
  with humour
• Section 61 code of practice on records management
  with records-management
• Selection bias
  xkcd 2618
  with humour
• Sentinel-2
  Cloudless map of the world by EOX
  with maps-and-mapping
• Seven Horsemen
  Cartoon depicting the seven horsemen of the apocolypse : War, Pestilence, Death, Famine, Finance Director, PR, and Head of Innovation.
  with gifts humour
• Seventeen splendid Scottish artists
  Art UK
  with art-and-design image-galleries
• Shady Characters - Miscellany No. 99 : minting the dollar
  "Here [in St. Andrews] stood the house of Bailie Bell, who, before 1744, was an eager co-worker with Alexander Wilson, the father of Scottish type-founding, and John Baine in whose type-foundry in Philadelphia the first $ sign was cast in 1797."
  with miscellany typography
• Shodan : the search engine for the Internet of Things
  "Shodan is the world's first search engine for Internet-connected devices."
  with search-engines by 3 users
• Shuffle
  Frequentatives (verbs that happen frequently), e.g. spark/sparkle, crack/crackle, etc.
  with language-and-literature
• SimilarSites.com
  "Discover sites similar to the ones you know and love"
  with search-engines
• Simple Sabotage Field Manual
  "In 1944, CIA’s precursor, the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), created the Simple Sabotage Field Manual [...] This classified booklet described ways to sabotage the US’ World War II enemies." Or, "A Timeless, Kafkaesque Guide to Subverting Any Organization with “Purposeful Stupidity”"
  with work
• SKOS (Simple Knowledge Organization System)
  "SKOS is an area of work developing specifications and standards to support the use of knowledge Organization systems (KOS) such as thesauri, classification schemes, subject heading systems and taxonomies within the framework of the Semantic Web..."
  with cataloguing-and-metadata semantic-web
• Sorry - The page you are trying to access does not exist.
  "Why wasn't this page found? We asked some leading economists."
  with computers-internet-data humour
• Space typography
  xkcd 2863
  with humour
• Space yourself
  "There’s more to spaces than the key you instinctively hit with one of your thumbs between words. Let’s find out what other space characters there are, what their heritage is, and how they can be useful today."
  with typography
• Spreadshirt personalised T-shirts
  with gifts humour
• State Pension forecast
  with personal-finance
• Statutory Instrument No.561 (2001) : The Road Vehicles (Display of Registration Marks) Regulations 2001
  Contains exemplars of numberplate font characters.
  with cars typography
• STICK (Scottish Transport and Industry Collections and Knowledge network)
  "Discover Scotland’s transport and industry collections, both in museums and private collections, and what they can tell us about Scotland’s social and economic history."
  with glam history
• Structured interviews reveal that reference and liaison librarians - as engaged, proactive partners - are vital to the academic
  EBLIP article, 2022
  with library-management
  Note: Lots of good buzzwords
• Student design for a discharge print
  with art-and-design
• Studies in Photography
  The Scottish Society for the History of Photography
  with photography
• Subterranea Britannica
  "We're fascinated by man-made and man-used underground places — from mines to railway tunnels, military defences to nuclear bunkers and everything in between."
  Subterranea Britannica is a society devoted to the study and investigation of man-made (including Nuclear Bunkers) and man-used underground places.
  adit air britannica brittanica bunker corps nuclear observer raid roc royal rsg shel subterranea subterranean ukwmo underground
  with miscellany
• Symbols.com
  "Symbols.com is a unique online encyclopedia that encompasses comprehensive information on symbols, signs, flags, and glyphs — systematically organized into categories such as culture, country, religion, and others."
  with miscellany
• Sympathy for the Devil : novel ways to sell your soul
  A short history of the public relations industry
  with miscellany
• Systems for managing digital media collections
  "This paper provides an overview of a number of different approaches to media management..." [JISC digital Media Guide archived on UK Web Archive]
  with cataloguing-and-metadata photography
• T. S. Eliot
  with language-and-literature
• Tableau Public
  "Tableau Public is a free platform to explore, create and publicly share data visualisations online."
  with data_visualisation
• TagCrowd
  "TagCrowd is a web application for visualizing word frequencies in any user-supplied text by creating what is popularly known as a tag cloud or text cloud."
  with cataloguing-and-metadata data_visualisation
• Tagxedo
  "Tagxedo turns words -- famous speeches, news articles, slogans and themes, even your love letters -- into a visually stunning word cloud."
  with cataloguing-and-metadata data_visualisation by 12 users
• Tall infographics
  xkcd 1273
  with data_visualisation humour
• Taming advanced color palettes in Photoshop, Sketch and Affinity Designer
  Smashing Magazine
  with art-and-design colour
• TelevisionTunes.com
  "Browse our huge archive of 32,913 theme songs."
  with music by 2 users
• Terminological inexactitudes
  Handy translations of Whitehall jargon (Civil Service World)
  with language-and-literature
• Text analysis and visualisation tools for literature searches
  with data_visualisation
• Text Analyzer
  "Free software utility which allows you to find the most frequent phrases and frequencies of words. Non-English language texts are supported. It also counts number of words, characters, sentences and syllables. Also calculates lexical density."
  with cataloguing-and-metadata language-and-literature
• The amazing power of word vectors
  "...vector representations of words (and what you can do with them)."
  with semantic-web
• The Art of Suminagashi Japanese Marbling
  with art-and-design
• The best digital slide converters
  Review Geek
  with photography
• The Cake Server | Joseph's Most Complex Machine Ever! - YouTube
  with miscellany
• The Charleston Advisor
  "Critical reviews of web products for information professionals"
  with work
• The City Observatory
  with edinburgh history by 2 users
• The current state of authentication : we have a password problem
  Smashing magazine, 6 June 2016
  with computers-internet-data
• The defensible deletion of government email (J Lappin et al)
  Records Management Journal, 29(1/2), 2019 -- "The paper looks at the policy of The National Archives (TNA) towards UK government email and maps it against the approaches present in records management and information governance thought."
  with records-management
• The Dumb Money
  "The definitive explanation of why Bitcoin is stupid."
  with computers-internet-data
• The duty to document does not cease in a crisis [International Council on Archives]
  with records-management
• The Enfield Thunderbolt
  Radio 4 programmes about a prototype electric car built in the early 1970s at the height of the energy crisis.
  with electric-vehicles
• The first global urban planning conference was mostly about manure
  "The problem was horses. And their copious poop."
  with miscellany
• The future of silk
  "Silk is stronger than steel or kevlar. We are already using it to transport vaccines without cold chains and make automatically dissolving stitches. What else could it be used for?"
  with miscellany
• The gods of Egypt
  Introduction to Egyptian mythology
  Ancient Egyptian Mythology. Meet the Gods of the Pyramids. :
  belief egypt egyptian goddess gods kemet legends mythology nile pharoah pyramids research sphinx worship
  with history
• The Google Cemetery
  Dead Google products
  with miscellany
• The grammar of ornament : Illustrated by examples from various styles of ornament
  Jones, Owen. The Grammar of Ornament : Illustrated by Examples from Various Styles of Ornament. London: Dorling Kindersley, 2001. NLS catalogue entry.
  with art-and-design
• The great chain of being sure about things - Blockchains
  Economist, 2015 -- "The technology behind bitcoin lets people who do not know or trust each other build a dependable ledger. This has implications far beyond the cryptocurrency."
  with computers-internet-data
• The history of electric vehicles is older than you think
  with electric-vehicles

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