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Geraldine Beare @Beare1G

Indexer, writer and collector - interested in history (ancient and modern!) music, film and inconsequential information

Joined August 2012
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This is an original teleprint message declaring the end of the war which was kept by mother, strictly against regulations. Appropriate for @veday80
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As promised, yesterday ODNB posted the Life of G. Norman Knight, founder of the Society of Indexers @indexers in 1957. here is the link - I hope! oxforddnb.com/viewbydoi/10.1…
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The #BattleofMons took place in August 1914. The following month, #ArthurMachen wrote The Bowmen story in which phantom bowmen from #Agincourt came to the aid of the British. So began the #AngelofMons myth. This waltz was published in 1916
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Last night I went to a lecture on the impact of the Hampton Court Conference of 1604. The lecturer brought along several contemporary documents including the Basilikon Doron of 1603. The original owner provided a brief index which may interest @indexers
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Just about to settle down for this at Sadlers Wells
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Something for next year's diary @indexers - yes really! Oxford Dictionary of Biography (ODNB) provides a daily Life of the Day online which is sent free to subscribers. G Norman Knight, our founder, will be featured on 28 March 2025.
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Happy @indexers National Indexing Day #IndexDay Anyone remember this t-shirt?
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....Well, it is my #LeapYear birthday today!
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Pink barricades thoughtfully erected by workman installing new pipes to match the blossom tree outside my front door...
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Just in case you have a tank lying around... this may be useful should we experience another 'big freeze'. Seen at the beautiful #MinterneGardens
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Another small indexing gem. Did you know @indexers that the nutritional physiologist, Isabella Leitch (1890-1980), worked on the UNESCO co-ordinating committee on abstracts and indexing of the medical and biological sciences after WWII?
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I have just received this from a well-known retailer (no, not that online behemoth...). With it, came a sample of Global Protection Day Cream. I had no idea Alexa needed daily tlc...
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In spite of torrential rain, wind and frost, this greeted me in the garden this morning - and there is another nearby. No comment on my pruning skills...I blame it on the weather...
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This is in The National Archives. Has anyone seen it or know anything about it @indexers ?
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Lest we forget: @PoppyLegion Outside a house near me.
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It is 40yrs since my first index (860pp) was published & reviewed in TLS. I joined @indexers, became programme organiser, newsletter editor, vice chair & helped organise conferences. c3,000 indexes later, thank you @indexers for a fantastic indexing life!
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Just visited the #MuseumofSomerset in Taunton to see the magical Axel Scheffler exhibition which is on until the end of the month. Love the @Gruffalo!
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PS. Janet Hogarth Courtney's brother was David Hogarth, archaeologist and friend of T.E. Lawrence. He was also keeper of the @AshmoleanMuseum in succession to Arthur Evans. David also knew Gertrude Bell, a close friend of Janet's.
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Next year it will be 70 years since one of the great, forgotten @indexers died. Her name? Janet Hogarth Courtney (1865-1954), chief indexer of the 11th edition of @Britannica cross-referencing 30,000pp in less than 6 months, a half a million separate entries.
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This accompanies a display of drinking cups at the #LuxuryandPower exhibition at the #BritishMuseum. I particularly like the first few lines...
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