After two days of determined angling, we have a confirmed winner with a formidable top score of 3948! Congratulations to Daniel Kelly who managed to beat tremendously stiff competition to win the Amazon Echo Show 5. We hope you all had…
Category: Thing of the Day
A round-up of the bizarre and brilliant of the web corralled by the University of Portsmouth Library.
We come up with New Year’s resolutions, why not for the new academic year, too?
Have you thought about the ‘new (academic) year – new you’ yet? I was reading the Metro paper the other day and an article by Susan Griffin on productivity caught my eye. Here is the resolutions list she devised: Start…
A Narrative for Nora: from the smallest of clues to an international life story
It was small…only around 5cm by 3cm, a little wonky-looking, and greyscale. Hardly the most ostentatious of signals, tucked away from view on the inside cover of a slightly battered looking book written entirely in French. What it was that…
Productivity at a distance
Everyone loves a good life hack, particularly business leaders. Any new gadget or way of working that promises to make what we did yesterday easier and faster so that we can do more tomorrow than today attract attention. The challenge…
National Book Tokens £1000 (book token) giveaway
How does a free £1000 grab you? Still interested if you can only spend it on books and ebooks (fun ones as well as books for study)? What if you had to give it to a friend and then look…
How to look out for your mate – an expert guide
Helping a mate or family member when they are low or bereaved can be extremely challenging and there is no easy way to know what (or how much) to say. What is clear is that when people are very low…
A brief look at the life of a postgraduate…
Postgraduate study is a totally different animal. What do I mean by this? First of all, you are more mature and experienced than when you started your undergraduate studies. You should be more focussed as well. Which direction do you…
It’s National Writing Day!
It’s 26th June again, which means it must be National Writing Day. I’m celebrating by writing this blog post. I might move onto some emails later, and I will certainly be working on a book chapter for a scholarly monograph…
Happy Refugee Week!
This week people try to focus on the plight of those unwillingly forced from their homes by People desperately seeking refuge have become a stigmatised group in recent years. The term ‘refugee’ has become politically charged and carries with it…
Portsmouth Municipal College survives the Blitz!
In November 2018, I blogged about Portsmouth Municipal College and its students during the First World War. To tie in with the D-Day 75 commemorations, this piece looks at the college in 1944 and the continuing impact of events earlier…
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