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S. Manning, MA (Calgary), PhD (Innsbruck)
Blogging https://bookandsword.com/ after travelling suddenly overseas for my health
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While some people are hard on videos and podcasts for not attributing where they get their information, many bestselling popular history books are equally shoddy https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/this-is-what-max-hastings-did-is-this-plagiarism-y (one explanation would be that Hastings' books are written by an army of anonymous research assistants who take shortcuts, and he does not know where their summaries come from)

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New cybersecurity roundup by @violetblue https://www.patreon.com/posts/100650617

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Erik Kwakkel has a classic post on silk needlework repairs to medieval parchment manuscripts https://medievalbooks.nl/2014/10/24/feeling-good-about-bad-skin/

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@ClaireFromClare @medievodons @bookstodon it looks like there is an open-access article by Christine Sciacca on these silk needlework repairs to parchment https://www.academia.edu/6433363/Stitches_Sutures_and_Seams_Embroidered_Parchment_Repairs_in_Medieval_Manuscripts

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