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2025  26

October  8

How to Disable Automatic Tags in Zotero

29 October, 2025 · 2 min · 238 words · Catherine Pope

Why Your MacBook Wi-Fi Keeps Dropping (and how I fixed mine)

24 October, 2025 · 5 min · 969 words · Catherine Pope

How to Use Zotero with Scrivener - Part 2

22 October, 2025 · 7 min · 1378 words · Catherine Pope

How to Use Zotero with Scrivener

21 October, 2025 · 7 min · 1338 words · Catherine Pope

A Catastrophist’s Guide to Backing Up a Mac

17 October, 2025 · 12 min · 2415 words · Catherine Pope

How to Safely Eject an External Drive on a Mac

10 October, 2025 · 3 min · 471 words · Catherine Pope

How to Create a Book Database with Hugo and YAML - Part 3

5 October, 2025 · 3 min · 569 words · Catherine Pope

Time Tracking for Researchers: Improve Your Project Management with Data-Driven Planning

2 October, 2025 · 4 min · 740 words · Catherine Pope

September  7

How to Create a Book Database With Hugo and YAML - Part 2

30 September, 2025 · 5 min · 948 words · Catherine Pope

How to Create a Book Database with Hugo and YAML - Part 1

29 September, 2025 · 5 min · 979 words · Catherine Pope

Beyond the Feedback Sandwich

20 September, 2025 · 5 min · 994 words · Catherine Pope

How to Keep Your Mac Awake

19 September, 2025 · 2 min · 404 words · Catherine Pope

Open External Links in a New Tab With Hugo

18 September, 2025 · 3 min · 582 words · Catherine Pope

How to Automatically Sync AudioPen Notes with Obsidian

15 September, 2025 · 3 min · 479 words · Catherine Pope

Manage Multiple Hugo Versions with Docker

15 September, 2025 · 4 min · 684 words · Catherine Pope

August  1

Linda Tressel by Anthony Trollope

25 August, 2025 · 7 min · 1286 words · Catherine Pope

March  7

A Reflection on My Tiny Experiments

17 March, 2025 · 3 min · 615 words · Catherine Pope

You Need an Ashtray

7 March, 2025 · 2 min · 379 words · Catherine Pope

How I Spent £120 on Two CDs

6 March, 2025 · 2 min · 355 words · Catherine Pope

Liberated but Not Empowered

5 March, 2025 · 3 min · 445 words · Catherine Pope

What My Cat Taught Me About Money

4 March, 2025 · 2 min · 309 words · Catherine Pope

The Confidence Game

3 March, 2025 · 3 min · 489 words · Catherine Pope

Tiny Experiments by Anne-Laure Le Cunff

2 March, 2025 · 3 min · 557 words · Catherine Pope

February  1

Repeat for the Other Shoe

25 February, 2025 · 4 min · 696 words · Catherine Pope

January  2

Diderot’s Dishwasher

25 January, 2025 · 4 min · 779 words · Catherine Pope

How to Signpost Your Academic Writing

25 January, 2025 · 4 min · 779 words · Catherine Pope

2024  10

October  4

Saturday Morning Experiments

18 October, 2024 · 2 min · 271 words · Catherine Pope

Playing Piano With Dinosaurs

13 October, 2024 · 4 min · 703 words · Catherine Pope

Let’s Talk German to Owls

9 October, 2024 · 4 min · 851 words · Catherine Pope

Why We Should All Be Slackers

6 October, 2024 · 3 min · 615 words · Catherine Pope

September  3

Keeping Up with the Victorians

29 September, 2024 · 3 min · 588 words · Catherine Pope

Avoiding the Complexity Trap

28 September, 2024 · 3 min · 616 words · Catherine Pope

88 Keys to Happiness: Learning to Play Piano at 50

26 September, 2024 · 7 min · 1332 words · Catherine Pope

June  2

How to Map Your Thesis or Book

27 June, 2024 · 3 min · 608 words · Catherine Pope

Improve Your Flow with Reverse Outlining

26 June, 2024 · 4 min · 745 words · Catherine Pope

March  1

Creating a Minimum Viable Thesis

18 March, 2024 · 2 min · 337 words · Catherine Pope

2022  3

September  1

Creating a Jekyll Site with Docker

25 September, 2022 · 3 min · 593 words · Catherine Pope

August  2

Creating and Running a Docker Image of Your Website

21 August, 2022 · 4 min · 691 words · Catherine Pope

Previewing Jekyll Sites with Docker

14 August, 2022 · 3 min · 590 words · Catherine Pope

2021  7

March  2

How to Create an Interactive Checklist in InDesign

18 March, 2021 · 1 min · 39 words · Catherine Pope

How to Create a Content Library with Readwise

11 March, 2021 · 1 min · 54 words · Catherine Pope

February  2

Capture Handwritten Notes with a Rocketbook

11 February, 2021 · 1 min · 38 words · Catherine Pope

Conquer Boring Tasks with the Pomodoro Technique

4 February, 2021 · 1 min · 50 words · Catherine Pope

January  3

Boost Your Productivity with TextExpander

30 January, 2021 · 1 min · 80 words · Catherine Pope

Easy Noise Reduction with Audacity

14 January, 2021 · 1 min · 53 words · Catherine Pope

Insights from 2020

5 January, 2021 · 7 min · 1383 words · Catherine Pope

2020  10

October  2

Should You Quit Your PhD?

12 October, 2020 · 6 min · 1162 words · Catherine Pope

Dealing with Darwin Days

8 October, 2020 · 2 min · 342 words · Catherine Pope

September  2

Should You Hire a Professional Proofreader for Your Thesis?

14 September, 2020 · 4 min · 750 words · Catherine Pope

Implementing Feedback from Your Supervisor

9 September, 2020 · 6 min · 1118 words · Catherine Pope

August  2

Organising and Annotating Research Photos With Tropy

21 August, 2020 · 2 min · 407 words · Catherine Pope

Improving Writing Accountability With Focusmate

20 August, 2020 · 4 min · 692 words · Catherine Pope

July  4

Preparing for an Online Viva

30 July, 2020 · 6 min · 1094 words · Catherine Pope

How to Write a Thesis Abstract

18 July, 2020 · 4 min · 671 words · Catherine Pope

Who Do You Include in Your Thesis Acknowledgements?

8 July, 2020 · 3 min · 490 words · Catherine Pope

The Art of Deliberate Practice

6 July, 2020 · 3 min · 545 words · Catherine Pope

2019  2

March  1

Open Up: The Power of Talking About Money by Alex Holder

20 March, 2019 · 4 min · 775 words · Catherine Pope

January  1

The Kindness Method by Shahroo Izadi

5 January, 2019 · 3 min · 512 words · Catherine Pope

2017  1

June  1

The Great Sussex Book Sprint

26 June, 2017 · 7 min · 1329 words · Catherine Pope

2016  2

March  1

Miss Florence Marryat vs Mr Charles Dickens

10 March, 2016 · 3 min · 536 words · Catherine Pope

January  1

Life According to Literature 2015

6 January, 2016 · 1 min · 173 words · Catherine Pope

2015  4

April  1

Harriet by Elizabeth Jenkins

6 April, 2015 · 3 min · 490 words · Catherine Pope

March  1

Mrs Grundy’s Enemies: Censorship, Realist Fiction and the Politics of Sexual Representation by Anthony Patterson

8 March, 2015 · 5 min · 959 words · Catherine Pope

February  2

Life in the Victorian Asylum: The World of Nineteenth-Century Mental Health Care by Mark Stevens

14 February, 2015 · 3 min · 501 words · Catherine Pope

Sowing the Wind by Eliza Lynn Linton

8 February, 2015 · 5 min · 892 words · Catherine Pope

2014  6

December  1

Life According to Literature 2014

24 December, 2014 · 2 min · 223 words · Catherine Pope

November  1

Seventy Years a Showman by ‘Lord’ George Sanger

15 November, 2014 · 4 min · 762 words · Catherine Pope

June  1

George Eliot: The Last Victorian

5 June, 2014 · 4 min · 801 words · Catherine Pope

May  1

The Victorian Guide to Sex by Fern Riddell

25 May, 2014 · 4 min · 827 words · Catherine Pope

March  2

Did She Kill Him? A Victorian Tale of Deception, Adultery and Arsenic by Kate Colquhoun

23 March, 2014 · 4 min · 814 words · Catherine Pope

The Mystery of Princess Louise: Queen Victoria’s Rebellious Daughter by Lucinda Hawksley

16 March, 2014 · 5 min · 922 words · Catherine Pope

2013  9

December  2

Will Warburton by George Gissing

31 December, 2013 · 3 min · 579 words · Catherine Pope

Life According to Literature 2013

27 December, 2013 · 1 min · 170 words · Catherine Pope

September  1

The Alice Behind Wonderland by Simon Winchester

9 September, 2013 · 4 min · 810 words · Catherine Pope

August  1

How to Create the Perfect Wife: Georgian Britain’s Most Ineligible Bachelor and His Quest to Cultivate the Ideal Woman

4 August, 2013 · 4 min · 846 words · Catherine Pope

May  2

Fanny and Stella: The Young Men Who Shocked Victorian England by Neil McKenna

20 May, 2013 · 3 min · 579 words · Catherine Pope

Inconvenient People: Lunacy, Liberty and the Mad-Doctors in Victorian England by Sarah Wise

9 May, 2013 · 4 min · 683 words · Catherine Pope

April  1

Capturing the Light: The Birth of Photography by Helen Rappaport and Roger Watson

25 April, 2013 · 3 min · 566 words · Catherine Pope

March  2

No Place for Ladies: The Untold Story of Women in the Crimean War by Helen Rappaport

8 March, 2013 · 3 min · 526 words · Catherine Pope

Thyrza by George Gissing

5 March, 2013 · 2 min · 356 words · Catherine Pope

2012  26

December  4

The Victorian City: Everyday Life in Dickens’ London by Judith Flanders

18 December, 2012 · 3 min · 493 words · Catherine Pope

The Day Parliament Burned Down by Caroline Shenton

16 December, 2012 · 3 min · 468 words · Catherine Pope

Life According to Literature 2012

14 December, 2012 · 1 min · 190 words · Catherine Pope

The Duke’s Children by Anthony Trollope

13 December, 2012 · 3 min · 548 words · Catherine Pope

November  1

The Excellent Dr Blackwell: The Life of the First Woman Physician by Julia Boyd

18 November, 2012 · 6 min · 1209 words · Catherine Pope

October  1

Weeds by Jerome K. Jerome

31 October, 2012 · 2 min · 338 words · Catherine Pope

September  1

Below the Fairy City: A Life of Jerome K. Jerome by Carolyn W. de la L. Oulton

30 September, 2012 · 3 min · 470 words · Catherine Pope

August  3

John Caldigate by Anthony Trollope

8 August, 2012 · 3 min · 458 words · Catherine Pope

Effie: The Passionate Lives of Effie Gray, Ruskin and Millais by Suzanne Fagence Cooper

3 August, 2012 · 5 min · 1048 words · Catherine Pope

The Way We Live Now by Anthony Trollope

2 August, 2012 · 3 min · 605 words · Catherine Pope

July  5

Mr Briggs’ Hat: A Sensational Account of Britain’s First Railway Murder by Kate Colquhoun

31 July, 2012 · 3 min · 482 words · Catherine Pope

Into the Frame: The Four Loves of Ford Madox Brown by Angela Thirlwell

27 July, 2012 · 4 min · 709 words · Catherine Pope

Is He Popenjoy? by Anthony Trollope

25 July, 2012 · 4 min · 762 words · Catherine Pope

A Thing in Disguise: The Visionary Life of Joseph Paxton by Kate Colquhoun

23 July, 2012 · 3 min · 537 words · Catherine Pope

The Angel of the Revolution: A Tale of the Coming Terror by George Chetwynd Griffith

18 July, 2012 · 2 min · 399 words · Catherine Pope

May  1

The Woman Who Saved the Children: A Biography of Eglantyne Jebb by Clare Mulley

20 May, 2012 · 7 min · 1362 words · Catherine Pope

March  1

Can You Forgive Her? by Anthony Trollope

18 March, 2012 · 4 min · 714 words · Catherine Pope

January  9

Lady Worsley’s Whim: An Eighteenth-Century Tale of Sex, Scandal and Divorce by Hallie Rubenhold

25 January, 2012 · 5 min · 888 words · Catherine Pope

Top Ten Trollopes

12 January, 2012 · 7 min · 1328 words · Catherine Pope

The Golden Lion of Granpère by Anthony Trollope

12 January, 2012 · 3 min · 436 words · Catherine Pope

Ten Terrible Trollopes

10 January, 2012 · 6 min · 1252 words · Catherine Pope

Ralph the Heir by Anthony Trollope

5 January, 2012 · 3 min · 570 words · Catherine Pope

Sir Harry Hotspur of Humblethwaite by Anthony Trollope

4 January, 2012 · 4 min · 682 words · Catherine Pope

Harry Heathcote of Gangoil by Anthony Trollope

3 January, 2012 · 3 min · 459 words · Catherine Pope

The Somnambulist by Essie Fox

2 January, 2012 · 2 min · 418 words · Catherine Pope

Wedlock: How Georgian Britain’s Worst Husband Met His Match by Wendy Moore

1 January, 2012 · 5 min · 884 words · Catherine Pope

2011  29

December  5

The English Marriage: Tales of Love, Money and Adultery

31 December, 2011 · 3 min · 608 words · Catherine Pope

The Struggles of Brown, Jones and Robinson by Anthony Trollope

30 December, 2011 · 3 min · 486 words · Catherine Pope

Life According to Literature 2011

16 December, 2011 · 1 min · 189 words · Catherine Pope

The Landleaguers by Anthony Trollope

15 December, 2011 · 4 min · 706 words · Catherine Pope

Magnificent Obsession: Victoria, Albert and the Death that Changed the Monarchy by Helen Rappaport

14 December, 2011 · 4 min · 660 words · Catherine Pope

August  1

The Trollope Challenge

17 August, 2011 · 2 min · 259 words · Catherine Pope

June  1

A Mummer’s Wife by George Moore

11 June, 2011 · 3 min · 520 words · Catherine Pope

April  1

Nina Balatka by Anthony Trollope

4 April, 2011 · 4 min · 720 words · Catherine Pope

March  2

Mr Scarborough’s Family by Anthony Trollope

14 March, 2011 · 5 min · 860 words · Catherine Pope

Black Beauty by Anna Sewell

1 March, 2011 · 3 min · 500 words · Catherine Pope

February  7

Marion Fay by Anthony Trollope

23 February, 2011 · 3 min · 472 words · Catherine Pope

Demos by George Gissing

22 February, 2011 · 4 min · 703 words · Catherine Pope

Madame Tussaud and the History of Waxworks by Pamela Pilbeam

13 February, 2011 · 6 min · 1187 words · Catherine Pope

The Last Chronicle of Barset by Anthony Trollope

7 February, 2011 · 6 min · 1261 words · Catherine Pope

The Small House at Allington by Anthony Trollope

4 February, 2011 · 6 min · 1190 words · Catherine Pope

Framley Parsonage by Anthony Trollope

2 February, 2011 · 3 min · 593 words · Catherine Pope

The Light That Failed by Rudyard Kipling

1 February, 2011 · 3 min · 613 words · Catherine Pope

January  12

An Eye for an Eye by Anthony Trollope

31 January, 2011 · 3 min · 465 words · Catherine Pope

Doctor Thorne by Anthony Trollope

29 January, 2011 · 4 min · 771 words · Catherine Pope

The Invention of Murder: How the Victorians Revelled in Death and Detection and Created Modern Crime by Judith Flanders

24 January, 2011 · 4 min · 693 words · Catherine Pope

Blind Love by Wilkie Collins

23 January, 2011 · 3 min · 461 words · Catherine Pope

Barchester Towers by Anthony Trollope

22 January, 2011 · 4 min · 754 words · Catherine Pope

East of Suez by Alice Perrin

15 January, 2011 · 3 min · 519 words · Catherine Pope

The Warden by Anthony Trollope

14 January, 2011 · 2 min · 411 words · Catherine Pope

An Old Man’s Love by Anthony Trollope

10 January, 2011 · 3 min · 599 words · Catherine Pope

The Bazalgettes by E M Delafield

9 January, 2011 · 3 min · 445 words · Catherine Pope

The Fixed Period by Anthony Trollope

7 January, 2011 · 2 min · 413 words · Catherine Pope

Ayala’s Angel by Anthony Trollope

4 January, 2011 · 3 min · 541 words · Catherine Pope

Wild Romance: The True Story of a Victorian Scandal by Chloe Schama

2 January, 2011 · 5 min · 866 words · Catherine Pope

2010  26

December  10

The Fallen Leaves by Wilkie Collins

31 December, 2010 · 3 min · 612 words · Catherine Pope

The Evil Genius by Wilkie Collins

28 December, 2010 · 2 min · 413 words · Catherine Pope

Love Well the Hour: The Life of Lady Colin Campbell by Anne Jordan

20 December, 2010 · 2 min · 277 words · Catherine Pope

The Wing of Azrael by Mona Caird

17 December, 2010 · 5 min · 904 words · Catherine Pope

Phineas Redux by Anthony Trollope

15 December, 2010 · 3 min · 475 words · Catherine Pope

Jezebel’s Daughter by Wilkie Collins

14 December, 2010 · 2 min · 390 words · Catherine Pope

Blessed Days of Anaesthesia: How Anaesthetics Changed the World by Stephanie Snow

12 December, 2010 · 5 min · 934 words · Catherine Pope

The New Magdalen by Wilkie Collins

11 December, 2010 · 2 min · 288 words · Catherine Pope

The Prime Minister by Anthony Trollope

10 December, 2010 · 4 min · 681 words · Catherine Pope

Life According to Literature 2010

6 December, 2010 · 1 min · 196 words · Catherine Pope

October  1

He Knew He Was Right by Anthony Trollope

30 October, 2010 · 4 min · 752 words · Catherine Pope

August  2

Legacy of Cain by Wilkie Collins

5 August, 2010 · 2 min · 362 words · Catherine Pope

The American Senator by Anthony Trollope

3 August, 2010 · 3 min · 522 words · Catherine Pope

June  1

Henry Dunbar by Mary Elizabeth Braddon

27 June, 2010 · 3 min · 609 words · Catherine Pope

April  3

Beautiful for Ever: Madame Rachel of Bond Street by Helen Rappaport

11 April, 2010 · 5 min · 1045 words · Catherine Pope

The Beth Book by Sarah Grand

6 April, 2010 · 3 min · 429 words · Catherine Pope

The Claverings by Anthony Trollope

4 April, 2010 · 3 min · 568 words · Catherine Pope

March  2

Lady Anna by Anthony Trollope

17 March, 2010 · 3 min · 562 words · Catherine Pope

Ruth by Elizabeth Gaskell

17 March, 2010 · 2 min · 404 words · Catherine Pope

January  7

Esther Waters by George Moore

17 January, 2010 · 3 min · 495 words · Catherine Pope

Ouida: A Passionate Victorian by Eileen Bigland

13 January, 2010 · 8 min · 1518 words · Catherine Pope

Moths by Ouida

11 January, 2010 · 5 min · 865 words · Catherine Pope

Hidden Depths by Felicia Skene

8 January, 2010 · 4 min · 655 words · Catherine Pope

Workers in the Dawn by George Gissing

7 January, 2010 · 4 min · 761 words · Catherine Pope

Charles Dickens and the House of Fallen Women

6 January, 2010 · 4 min · 844 words · Catherine Pope

The Belton Estate by Anthony Trollope

4 January, 2010 · 3 min · 620 words · Catherine Pope

2009  22

December  1

Life According to Literature 2009

3 December, 2009 · 1 min · 172 words · Catherine Pope

September  1

Hysteria: The Biography by Andrew Scull

19 September, 2009 · 6 min · 1086 words · Catherine Pope

August  3

Gissing: a Life in Books by John Halperin

18 August, 2009 · 10 min · 2027 words · Catherine Pope

The Plimsoll Sensation: The Great Campaign to Save Lives at Sea by Nicolette Jones

17 August, 2009 · 6 min · 1168 words · Catherine Pope

The Eustace Diamonds by Anthony Trollope

16 August, 2009 · 3 min · 542 words · Catherine Pope

June  2

Phineas Finn by Anthony Trollope

29 June, 2009 · 3 min · 607 words · Catherine Pope

Lady Colin Campbell: Victorian Sex Goddess by G H Fleming

12 June, 2009 · 6 min · 1093 words · Catherine Pope

May  5

Paul Ferroll by Caroline Clive

16 May, 2009 · 3 min · 563 words · Catherine Pope

The Mysterious Miss Marie Corelli: Queen of Bestsellers by Teresa Ransom

12 May, 2009 · 8 min · 1561 words · Catherine Pope

Servants of the Supernatural

11 May, 2009 · 4 min · 794 words · Catherine Pope

The Sorrows of Satan by Marie Corelli

7 May, 2009 · 4 min · 824 words · Catherine Pope

George Grossmith: Biography of a Savoyard by Tony Joseph

2 May, 2009 · 6 min · 1143 words · Catherine Pope

April  6

Aubrey Beardsley by Matthew Sturgis

24 April, 2009 · 5 min · 1013 words · Catherine Pope

The Story of a Modern Woman by Ella Hepworth Dixon

17 April, 2009 · 4 min · 727 words · Catherine Pope

Mrs Humphry Ward: Eminent Victorian, Pre-Eminent Edwardian by John Sutherland

16 April, 2009 · 9 min · 1780 words · Catherine Pope

Thou Art the Man by Mary Elizabeth Braddon

2 April, 2009 · 2 min · 385 words · Catherine Pope

Dr Wortle’s School by Anthony Trollope

1 April, 2009 · 2 min · 426 words · Catherine Pope

Ideala by Sarah Grand

1 April, 2009 · 4 min · 747 words · Catherine Pope

March  2

The Vicar of Bullhampton by Anthony Trollope

25 March, 2009 · 3 min · 431 words · Catherine Pope

Miss Mackenzie by Anthony Trollope

22 March, 2009 · 3 min · 613 words · Catherine Pope

January  2

The Disastrous Mrs Weldon by Brian Thompson

11 January, 2009 · 6 min · 1151 words · Catherine Pope

Rachel Ray by Anthony Trollope

4 January, 2009 · 3 min · 594 words · Catherine Pope

2008  2

December  2

Cousin Henry by Anthony Trollope

13 December, 2008 · 2 min · 344 words · Catherine Pope

Harry Price the Psychic Detective by Richard Morris

4 December, 2008 · 2 min · 391 words · Catherine Pope