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Texas Tech English PhD student; Middle English Literature Student; Textile History Enthusiast; Knitter, Weaver, and Spinner; Mother of a really cool kid
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I’m not even THAT kind of doctor, and I could absolutely do a better job as HHS than RFK, Jr.
August 15, 2025 at 1:15 AM
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Digital decay, disappearing data, broken links: why it matters and what we can do.

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Cover of the book Preserving Government Information: Past Present, and Future, by James A, Jacobs and James R. Jacobs.
August 14, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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These two pages from a Norwegian medieval manuscript (ca. 1270) were used to stiffen a bishop's mitre. I wonder what the bishops would have said if they had found out they were wearing French love poetry on their head (Norse translations of the lais of Marie de France).
Two manuscript pages on a white background. The top of both pages has been cut in a pyramid shape that slopes about halfway down the page, and then the normal, straight edge continues the rest of the way down.
February 6, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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This is a sewing pattern. It is also a page from a late 14th century manuscript that is one of two primary sources for an important Icelandic saga (Sturlunga saga), but that was probably not important to the 17th century person who really needed a sewing pattern.
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Sewing pattern for part of a shirt. It is clearly made from a dark brown manuscript page with small lettering written in two columns.
January 24, 2025 at 9:17 PM