amandycat

I had an ex MP tell me that Julian Huppert was a 'terrible bore' a little while ago. Was pleased to be able to tell this individual that most of us are glad that our political representatives concern themselves with reporting facts to develop policy rather than pandering to misinformation.

edit: spelling

One of my first jobs was an admin post in a UK hospital, and nobody had told me this. I 'corrected' lots of surgeons titles on name badges etc. before anyone told me.

I am a researcher of early modern books, and I'm currently part of a research group working on a project to digitise marginalia. I frequently come across books that have been subject to some sketchy attempts at 'conservation' and 'cleaning' which have really done a number on the handwritten ink and chalk. These are almost always a result of the varying values we place on these books - 400 year old marginal annotations are valuable now, but once radically decreased the value of the book, hence the attempts to remove them.

Do you work on things like this, where you're 'undoing' the work of early conservation, and if so, how do you do it?