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Commonplace Books Yale's Beinicke Library has a nice collection of digital images of commonplace books. more inside

Speculation is rife that the IRA are due to make a statement winding up their existence as an armed force. The release of Seán Kelly seems to point to an announcement tomorrow. This momentous news may also serve to intoroduce the excellent Slugger O'Toole, a blog on Northern Ireland's politics and culture.

Dark Alliance The late Gary Webb's classic series of articles written in the mid-90s for the San Jose Mercury News, detailing the links between the CIA, crack cocaine and the 'contra' campaign against the Sandinista government in Nicaragua, are now available in full on line again, with added background and documentation.

The Differences Slavery Made A comparison of two communities near the Mason-Dixon Line "designed to isolate the role of slavery in shaping societies of similar location and histories", "an applied experiment in digital scholarship".

Overheard in Dublin Current favourite

Imaging the French Revolution. Seven scholars present essays analysing images of the crowd and violence in revolutionary France. via AHR. Flash required for image comparison tool.

Goodbye Hola. Melita Norwood, revealed as a spy thanks to archives former KGB officer Vasili Mitrokhin brought with hime when he defected to the west in 1992, has died. Ms. Norwood was never prosecuted and remained proud of her actions.

Pornokrates "Historic smut for the discerning voyeur". I ahem came across this whilst searching for some of Rochester's works, but it seems to be a rich resource. For example, how have I lived this long without knowing 69 Ways to say "You Whore!"? Not safe for one's place of employ, I would hazard

A new poem from Sappho . Its publication adds greatly to the sadly little that has survived from the oeuvre of thegreat poet of Lesbos. The TLS publishes Dr. Martin West's translation.

The Tigers roar! Jubilant crowds spilled onto the streets of Dhaka in celebration of one of the most amazing upsets in the lengthy annals of international cricket. Rank outsiders Bangladesh beat world champions and highest rated ODI team of all time, Australia. more inside

Nepal : Pankaj Mishra writes on the ongoing "People's War ".

Europe's oldest civilisation discovered: "a network of dozens of temples, 2,000 years older than Stonehenge and the Pyramids" spread across sites in what are now Germany, Austria and Slovakia.

Bapa Phünsto Wangye , founder of the Tibetan Communist Party. The first chapter of his recently published memoirs can be read on line, a story that challenges overly simplistic readings of the Tibetan experience in "New China".

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The International Institute of Social History "is one of the world's largest documentary and research institutions in the field of social history in general and the history of the labour movement in particular". Online exhibitions include a collection of early Japanese print depictions of foreigners, facsimiles of some works of William Morris, photographs by Ravi Agarwal and Art to the People. more inside

Rude food I'm not normally one for chuckling at Chinglish, but this is a spectacularly bad effort (and NSFW).

Arthur Wharton was Britain's first Black professional footballer and also an accomplished sprinter. He lead an eventful life, but died in poverty and obscurity. more inside

Three inch golden lotus Meeting some of the last surving Chinese women with bound feet. more inside

Ancient Chinese sex-toys [NSFW if 3000 year bronze dildos aren't your workplace thing] The text is in Chinese but the pictures speak for themselves via Danwei