Copying projects - then and now
Posted in Fancy that on Nov 26th, 2007 9 Comments »
In a post a few weeks ago I marveled at the Australian historian Kathleen Fitzpatrick having in the 1940s taken out a loan to fund a trip to Britain to undertake the research for her book Sir John Franklin in Tasmania 1837-1843. The fare to Cambridge alone cost her a year’s salary, she later admitted. […]