Sport in History

intouea.com Posted on 22 March 2019 by

Sport in History is the quarterly academic journal of the British Society of Sports History.

Some examples of articles:

  • Her own hero: the origin of the women’s self-defense movement
  • Game of privilege: an African American history of Golf
  • The turbulent world of Middle East soccer
  • It’s Rough Game but Good Sport: The Life, Times and Personalities of the Shanghai Rugby Football Club
  • The East Asian Olympiads 1934–2008, Building Bodies and Nations in Japan, Korea, and China

You can read it online through UEA Library.

Celebrity Studies

intouea.com Posted on 21 March 2019 by

Time is out of joint: the transmedial hauntology of David Bowie

If you have no idea what that means, well, it’s the title of an article in the academic journal Celebrity Studies. The current issue is dedicated to the study of Bowie.

Other recent issues have articles on (for example) The Great British Bake-Off, Super Voice Girl, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, X-Men, Doctor Who, Haruki Murakami, Amy Winehouse, Beckham, Beyoncé and Trump.

With access through UEA Library, you can read all of these online.

Society Now

intouea.com Posted on 20 March 2019 by

Society Now is a quarterly magazine from the Economic and Social Research Council. It highlights the results of recent research.

For example, the latest issue has a news item about the use of anti-depressant drugs in Northern Ireland:

Findings show that anti-depressants were prescribed to 12% of NI’s population in 2011 with this rate rising to 14% by 2015. “Over the entire five-year period 24% of the population were prescribed anti-depressants,” says Professor Shevlin. “Existing figures for 2013 show that proportionately more anti-depressants were prescribed in NI than 23 other countries worldwide…”

You can read every issue of the magazine online.

Free Music Archive

intouea.com Posted on 18 March 2019 by

If you need background music for a video or slideshow, you could try the Free Music Archive.

The music is arranged by genre – Blues, Classical, Country, Electronic, etc. – and then sub-genre, such as Rock > Loud-Rock > Noise-Rock > Sludge. (More suitable, perhaps, as background music are genres such as Instrumental > Ambient.)

Tracks can be downloaded as mp3 files and then added to your project. Most of them have Creative Commons licences such as Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike.

Economics essays by students

intouea.com Posted on 13 March 2019 by

The Royal Economic Society holds an annual essay competition for sixth form students. Recent titles have included:

  • Does economics have the answer for the global problem of plastics pollution?
  • “GDP does not measure the output of the economy any more”. Do you agree, and if so, what improvements would you suggest?
  • “Some internet companies have become too big for the good of society and should be broken up”. Do you agree?
  • “If you don’t look after your health, you can’t expect free access to healthcare”. Is this wrong? What are the economic arguments?
  • Should internet companies like Uber and Airbnb be regulated?

You can read the winning essays online.

(There is no mention of the competition for this year, so perhaps it has been abandoned.)

Trial of library resources

intouea.com Posted on 12 March 2019 by

UEA Library has trial access to some online resources. They are expensive, so the library needs to know which are worth keeping. They are:

  • Archives of Sexuality & Gender
  • British Periodicals Collections
  • Cecil Papers
  • Drama Texts Collection
  • Film Scripts Online
  • Informit Indigenous Archive
  • International Herald Tribune
  • LGBT Magazine Archive
  • Nichols Newspapers Collection
  • Picture Post Historical
  • Punch Historical Archive, 1841-1992
  • Revolution and Protest Online
  • The Telegraph Historical Archive, 1855-2000
  • Underground and Independent Comics, Comix, and Graphic Novels
  • US Declassified Documents Online
  • Women’s Studies Archive

There is more information on tag (UEA Library blog). You can access all the resources via Find Databases.

Eating a frog

intouea.com Posted on 12 March 2019 by

The ebook, Eat That Frog! : 21 Great Ways to Stop Procrastinating and Get More Done in Less Time by Brian Tracy, is available through UEA Library. We have a link to it on our study skills page.

As an explanation of the title, the author writes:

Mark Twain once said that if the first thing you do each morning is to eat a live frog, you can go through the day with the satisfaction of knowing that that is probably the worst thing that is going to happen to you all day long.

I could not find the source for this quotation. It appears in various forms on motivational websites, in collections of quotes, etc., but never with any bibliographical details. Project Gutenberg’s collected works of Mark Twain include references to frogs, but nothing that I could see about eating them.

Finally, I came across Quote Investigator, which has a page on this very quotation: Eat a Live Frog Every Morning, and Nothing Worse Will Happen to You the Rest of the Day. Instead of the American writer Mark Twain (1835-1910), it attributes the saying to the French writer Nicolas Chamfort (1741-1794) and he refers to toads rather than frogs.

The moral of the story is: stop doing things in a hurry – and check your sources!