Clare's Lair

Friday, April 12, 2002

Kids, this is just for reference, not for entertainment. Useful if you're doing a dissertation at Royal Holloway though!
ROYAL HOLLOWAY, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON
HISTORY DEPARTMENT

STANDARD PRESENTATIONAL/FOOTNOTE CONVENTIONS
FOR LONG ESSAYS, DISSERTATIONS AND THESES
COMPILED BY: PENELOPE J. CORFIELD

TITLEPAGE

Give author, title, College, degree for which is submitted and at which University. All pages are numbered sequentially so that titlepage = 1.

ABSTRACT [if required]

Ph.D. and M.Phil. theses require brief Abstract of main argument to follow immediately after Titlepage [see exam.regs. for specifications].

PREFACE [if relevant]

Keep this very brief and technical - give thanks to all who have given help, especially any libraries or archives, and including supervisor if appropriate, but nothing too florid.

CONTENTS

Table of contents should indicate everything that follows, including all frontmatter, as well as main chapters, endmatter (appendices), and bibliography.

FRONTMATTER

Table of contents, plus lists of illustrations, tables, maps, if applicable.

CONVENTIONS

At end of frontmatter, insert Conventions, with standard abbreviations for commonly cited libraries, archives and printed works. E.g. BL for British Library, OED for Oxford English Dictionary etc. - plus names of any local record office(s) that you have consulted. Also explain ‘Place of publication is assumed to be London, unless indicated otherwise’ - [this statement should be repeated at head of Bibliography as well]. As a result, you don’t have to repeat London every time - saves a lot of wordage.

TEXT LAYOUT

Text should be word processed in double line or 1.5 line spacing, with good left hand margin [at least one inch] to allow room for binding. Latin and foreign terminology into italics or underlined. Italics are preferred, if your wp package permits.

Each chapter should start on a new page. Within chapters, you may use numbered or named sub-sections at your discretion and as appropriate.

DATES

Dates should be given simply as: 4 June 1900, 3 Sept. 1901, etc; not the 4th of June.

FOOTNOTES/ENDNOTES

Footnotes/endnotes should be in single line spacing - clearly demarcated from text - and numbered sequentially throughout each essay or chapter. Footnotes are strongly preferred, if your wp package permits.

REFERENCING STYLE

Footnotes must be clear and internally consistent, for ease of checking. Note the general principle: published titles are underlined or italicised, unpublished are not. Italics are preferred, if your wp package permits. Unless there are strong reasons to the contrary, the History Department prefers the following style:

BOOKS
A.N. Author, The Full Title, 1921-5: With Subtitle, if Given (Brighton, 1999) 1982), pp. 2-4, 12-14, 22-4, 102-4, 132-4.

[Avoid unnecessary repetition of numbers - so don't duplicate decade; or century (i.e. 1921-5). The exception = the ’teens, where to avoid confusion with single numbers, the ‘1’ is repeated (so it’s 1914-18)].

ESSAYS
A.N. Author, ‘A Key Point: A Study in Citations, 1707-21’, in A.N. Other (ed.), Full Title Again: With Subtitle (1983), pp. 1-100. [I.e. this is published in London]

Note: Page references are required for articles in journals and chapters in books.

JOURNALS
A.N. Author, ‘Full Title of Essay’, Past & Present, 45 (1978), pp. 1-35.

REPEATS
Ibid., p. 2. [Ibid. = short for ibidem = the same. It is used only if the identical source is cited in immediately following fn.]

Op. cit. [= work already cited] is not now used. So when referring in a later note to a text already cited in full, use surname + abbreviated but recognisable version of title. Eg. E.P. Thompson, The Making of the English Working Class (1963) = Thompson, Making, pp. 3-4.

REFERENCES - DOCUMENTS

Name the archive first, then the documents, followed by the numerical ref. and pagination: eg. British Library (subsequently B.L.) Place Papers, Add. Ms. 35,505, f. 45. [f= folio]. Same sequence for other archives: eg. Local Record Office (subsequently L.R.O.), Corporation Minutes, Box 350, f. 23. If folios are unnumbered, give date or details of document: eg. Box 351, letter dated 31/1/1781.
APPENDICES
Statistical or documentary or any other appendices can be added at the conclusion of the text but only if really necessary and if fully discussed within the substantive text.

SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY

Select Bibliography comes at the very end, after appendices. Restate here ‘Place of publication is assumed to be London, unless indicated otherwise’.

Then sequence of citation is usually
(1) Primary Sources
(a) manuscript
(b) printed - eg. Newspapers; printed texts
(2) Secondary Authorities
(a) printed
- can be sub-divided into books and articles if you prefer
(b) unpublished - eg. unpublished theses
Please note that book references should give place (if outside London) & date of publication; and essay/article references should give volume number & year & and full page references.

WORD COUNT

For BA Long Essays and MA Dissertations, wordcount includes all text and
footnotes but not appendices and bibliography.
For Ph.D., wordcount includes everything from start to finish. In very exceptional circumstances, it is possible to include a technical appendix outside the wordcount - speak to your supervisor about this.

BINDING

For undergraduate LONG ESSAY: Binding and illustrations are optional but it is helpful to pay careful attention to presentation for a good overall impression.

For MA DISSERTATION: Three copies of thesis are required, bound or affixed in a permanent binding. It is acceptable to provide your own binding. But the Department encourages use of ‘hot-melt binding’ which is cheap and efficient. For details, please see History Postgrad. Sec. (McCrae 319) tel: 01784-443311; or email pg.hist.@rhul.ac.uk.

NOTE: Successful MA Dissertations will be deposited in the Bedford Library at Royal
Holloway, on restricted access and subject to the normal copyright safeguards.

For PhD THESIS: Three copies of thesis must be presented and it is advisable to retain a fourth for your own usage. Binding and presentation details as specified by University regulations.

NOTE: Successful London University Ph.D. theses are made available for consultation in University libraries, subject to normal copyright safeguards. [July 2001]



Posted by Clare at 11:41 PM [+]
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A traversal

This is inspired by the Blogsnob practice of bouncing through the adverts advertised over on the left there and reviewing what you find. Here's my journey…

From mine
To Tallulah - rather intellectual, all personality analysis and webtests which is all very well but hmmm
To An Eighth - why not call it Plush Velcro, a much nicer name! I liked this one, in West Lafayette, Indiana, they have Bug Bowls. Quite nice graphics
To Rooma.net - quite funny, kind of a collection of forwards mostly
to Soul Illustrations - more dreams
To Bumblebee - like this! Cool mouse following thing and she went curling, which always makes me giggle.Very nice graphics generally, but there's weeks of posts on the front page, p'raps a bit much. But a cool ending.
The End
Posted by Clare at 10:23 PM [+]
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crime watching
week 42: april 13th - 19th
Written for Payback by Clare-Marie White.
NB Schedules may be subject to change so it's worth checking a daily paper or www.radiotimes.com for up-to-date listings.

television programmes
classics, "Must See TV"
None this week.

programmes worth watching out for, which don't make it to MSTV status
None this week

criminal justice programmes
Monday April 15th, 02.50, C4 The Great Train
Robbery

Monday April 15th, 19.30, BBC1 Undercover Cops: 4x4 Reports

Tuesday April 16th, 20.00, C5 Post Mortem

Tuesday April 16th, 20.30, C5 Arrest and Trial

Tuesday April 16th, 22.00, C4 Undercover Cops
Director: Edmund Coulthard Producer: Susan Jones

Wednesday April 17th, 21.10, BBC1 Shops, Robbers and Videotapes
Producers: Becky Clarke and Lance Williams

Thursday April 18th, 02.10, ITV Judge Judy

Thursday April 18th, 01.00, C4 Public Enemy No 1
Thursday April 18th, 21.00, C4 The Lost Girls: the Missing Stories of the West Murders
Director: Gwyneth Hughes Producer: Jane Bowler

social issues documentaries
Sunday April 14th, 20.05 and Monday 15th, 04.35, C4 Wasted
Problems of debt for a single mother on Sunday, and a repeat of last week's look at a prostitute on Monday morning.
Producer: Pamela Gordon

real life documentaries/'docusoaps'.
Sunday April 14th, 23.10, C5 Memphis Homicide Squad

crime dramas/serials
Saturday April 13th, 12.30, C4 The Fugitive

Saturday April 13th and Sunday 14th, 21.00, BBC1
The Secret
Two part drama, being much hyped, featuring many different crimes.
Director: Alrick Riley Producer: Paul Rutman

Saturday April 13th, 21.00, C5 CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
[Repeated Monday 15th, 22.55]
Related website: www.cbs.com/primetime/csi

Saturday April 13th, 21.55, C5 Law and Order
[Repeated Monday 15th, 00.15]
Related website: www.studiosusa.com/laworder

Sunday April 14th, 03.35, C4 Codename Eternity

Sunday April 14th, 15.05, ITV Nash Bridges

Sunday April 14th, 23.00, BBC2 The X Files
A lawyer is in prison for a crime he cannot remember.
Related website: www.bbc.co.uk/cult

Sunday April 14th, 20.00, and weekdays (except Friday), 14.10, ITV
Heartbeat
More heartbeat than you could ever wish for. The last in the current series on
Sunday, preceded at 18.30 by Ten years of Heartbeat for fans to catch up on
everything that has ever happened. Then, as if that weren't enough watch Nick
Berry in the first ever series on weekdays. When will anyone get any work done?

Sunday April 14th, 19.05, C5 Martial Law

Weekdays, 14.40, BBC1 Diagnosis Murder

Weekdays, 11.00, C5 TJ Hooker

Monday April 15th, 20.30, BBC1 The Inspector Linley
Mysteries
Director: Kim Flitcroft Producer: Ruth Baumgarten

Monday April 15th, 21.00, ITV The Cry

Tuesday April 16th, 20.30, Wednesday 17th, 20.00 and Thursday 18th, 20.00, ITV The Bill
Yet another three part, high budget explosive ratings booster that will see six regular characters killed off as they once again find themselves caught up in the anarchic fiery hell that is now Sunhill. Expect a raft of lovely blonde and beautiful officers to replace the deadwood that we all knew and liked.
Director: Steve Finn Producer: Tom Cotter
Related website: www.thebill.com

Tuesday April 16th, 23.55, C5 La Femme Nikita

Wednesday April 17th, 23.35, C4 Ally McBeal

Thursday April 18th, 21.00, ITV Bad Girls
Director: Brett Fallis Producer: Claire Phillips
Related website: www.badgirls.co.uk - with factsheets from the CCJS.

Friday April 19th, 20.30, ITV Inspector Morse
Director: John Madden Producer: David Lascelles

Other programmes of interest
Monday April 15th, 19.30, BBC2 Life Etc
Rosie Boycott talks to Lady Sally Moon, turned into a vandal and a wine thief by her adulterous husband. She probably didn't get quite the same treatment as teenage car-thieves, of course.
Director: Belinda Cherington

Monday April 15th, 20.30, C5 The Most Evil Men and Women in History
A look at the terrifying lives of prisoners at Buchenwald concentration camp who
suffered at the hands of Ilse Koch.

Tuesday April 16th, 21.00, BBC2 Body Hunt
How DNA developments are being used to identify the bodies of children killed in Bosnia.
Director/producer: Duncan Staff

Tuesday April 16th, 20.00, C4 The Tower
Producer: Richard Bond

clare's personal choice of the week
Saturday Aril 13th, 14.25, BBC2 Sunset Boulevard
Showing in tribute to director Billy Wilder, this is a remarkable film that spans a fascinating period of Hollywood history and puts stars of the silent eras such as Gloria Swanson into the totally different context of 1943. Bitter and satirical, it is a showcase for the great talent of a man who also made Some Like it Hot and numerous other classics.

criminal justice story lines in the main soaps during april/may
The big CJ storyline this month is in Eastenders, where Little Mo finally goes to trial for attacking Trevor. With two versions of the outcome ready, not even the actors know whether she will go to jail. All four episodes will be set in the courtroom in what should be a well researched look at the issues involved.
In Brookside, Ron is having problems coping with life outside jail and in Emmerdale, will Marc get released from his young offenders' wing?
Coronation Street sees the return of Linda, so it turns out that Mike did not murder her after all. Phew.
Related websites:
www.bbc.co.uk/eastenders
www.corrie.net
www.brookside.com
www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/archers

radio programmes
must hear radio
None this week.

criminal justice programmes
Tuesday April 16th, 20.00, Radio 4 Staunching the Flow
Looking at fraud, which costs the UK £15 billion a year.
Producer: David Lewis

social issues documentaries
Sunday April 14th, 17.00, Radio 4 Here for a Month, Here for a Day
Repeated look at fostering.
Producer: Miles Warde

crime dramas/serials
Wednesday April 17th, 14.15, Radio 4 Afternoon Play:
Truman
A murder investigation.
Director/producer: Toby Swift

other programmes of interest
Friday April 19th, 16.30, Radio 4 The Message
Jenni Murray and guests engage in conversation about current media trends.
Producer: Kevin Mousley
Related website: http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/themessage.


crime writing in the TV guides
The Radio Times carries special features on Little Mo's trial, with information on the research behind the storyline, and also outlines the new cast in The Bill.


daily listings
NB As schedules may be subject to change, it's worth checking a daily paper or www.radiotimes.com for up-to-date listings.

saturday april 13th
12.30 C4 The Fugitive
14.45 BBC2 Sunset Boulevard
21.00 BBC1 The Secret
21.00 C5 CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
21.55 C5 Law and Order

sunday april 14th
03.35 C4 Codename Eternity
15.05 ITV Nash Bridges
17.00 BBCR4 Here for a Month, Here for a Day
18.30 ITV Ten Years of Heartbeat
19.05 C5 Martial Law
20.05 C4 Wasted
20.00 ITV Heartbeat
21.00 BBC1 The Secret
23.00 BBC2 The X Files
23.10 C5 Memphis Homicide Squad

monday april 15th
00.15 C5 Law and Order
02.50 C4 The Great Train Robbery
04.35 C4 Wasted
11.00 C5 TJ Hooker
14.10 ITV Heartbeat
14.40 BBC1 Diagnosis Murder
19.30 BBC1 Undercover Cops: 4x4 Reports
19.30 BBC2 Life Etc
20.30 BBC1 The Inspector Lynley Mysteries
20.30 C5 The Most Evil Men and Women in
History
21.00 ITV The Cry
22.55 C5 CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
tuesday april 16th
11.00 C5 TJ Hooker
14.10 ITV Heartbeat
14.40 BBC1 Diagnosis Murder
20.00 C4 The Tower
20.00 C5 Post Mortem
20.00 BBCR4 Staunching the Flow
20.30 ITV The Bill
20.30 C5 Arrest and Trial
21.00 BBC2 Bodyhunt
22.00 C4 Undercover Cops
23.55 C5 La Femme Nikita

wednesday april 17th
11.00 C5 TJ Hooker
14.10 ITV Heartbeat
14.15 BBCR4 Afternoon Play: Truman
14.40 BBC1 Diagnosis Murder
20.00 ITV The Bill
21.10 BBC1 Shops, Robbers and Videotape
23.35 C4 Ally McBeal

thursday april 18th
01.00 C4 Public Enemy No 1
02.10 ITV Judge Judy
11.00 C5 TJ Hooker
14.10 ITV Heartbeat
14.40 BBC1 Diagnosis Murder
20.00 ITV The Bill
21.00 ITV Bad Girls
21.00 C4 The Lost Girls

friday april 19th
11.00 C5 TJ Hooker
14.40 BBC1 Diagnosis Murder
16.30 BBCR4 The Message
20.30 ITV Inspector Morse



Posted by Clare at 5:01 PM [+]
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Nothing to say now... Frank is free, the news is still dominated by nothing much except VERY bad things (The QM's death has been replaced by Beckham's broken leg, an equally national tragedy) and the Lair is still based on a dial-up connection which makes aimless surfing expensive.
Wandered over to Typical Situation...Typical Times which is a new blog. Very nice colours. Might make it an Admirable Blog once it's up and running - how kind am I? Hehe :)
Which leads me onto another question that I was wondering about - is is good form to write to people you recommend and tell them you have? I thought they'd figure it out themselves from referrals, as Mike Poofle did and some others obviously have, but is it? What does anyone think? I'm only a relative newbie so I don't want it to come over all 'hey, Clare's Lair's great and we've recommended you and now you'll get 200 hits a second' because they won't. So hmm.

Posted by Clare at 6:06 PM [+]
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* * Frank is Free Celebration Gallery * *

Now that Frank is free to roam around a room, our chances of seeing the little morsel asleep are going to be quite slim, so here's a few pictures to remind us of his time in jail...












Posted by Clare at 11:54 AM [+]
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How is Frank update!! (having actually read the news)

Woohoo!! FRANK IS FREE!!!

Hoorah! Let the gallery of joy go up tomorrow...
Posted by Clare at 9:58 PM [+]
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How is Frank?

His cameras are down a the moment and there is no news so we still don't know if he's frolicking in the valleys of freedom. As I'm clearing out e-mails, and in case Cat Hospital gets deleted upon Frank's triumphant recovery, here is the story of his rescue:
‘We were driving along when I spotted something grey and white in the road. As we got closer I realised it was not an escaped pet rabbit (that is what I at first thought) but a badly injured cat (Frank). We pulled up and as I put the hazard lights on, David got out to look at the cat. When I got out of the car, I realised that the cat was very badly injured. There was some gunk on the road and I at first thought that this was part of the cat. We did not want to risk picking him up. I stayed with Frank in the road and David went to investigate at the nearest house with a light on. The cat then began to haul himself to the side of the road and I stayed with him. As he managed to haul himself onto the verge, a bus came along so I was glad we were now out of the road. The cat was totally exhausted by his efforts and semi-collapsed in a hole in the ground. Amazingly David had found the owner's house (the first one he had tried!). When I realised we had found Frank's owners, I risked picking him up and took him inside. As you know, we then put him down somewhere quiet. I asked for something to cover him and he was covered up in a blanket to try to immobilise him and stop him going into too much of a state of shock. The vet was then called...I remember that you and your wife were very shocked and upset. We then left as Frank was to be rushed to the vet and we didn't want to get in the way. We then kept our fingers crossed as I thought he probably had a broken pelvis and might have internal injuries. I just hoped that I had not done any harm when I picked him up. We thought about the cat many times but totally failed to hear about his new found fame until weeks later.’

Aw.
Posted by Clare at 9:55 PM [+]
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Phew... it is always sheer naivety that tells one that the 'safe mode' is for those less intelligent that oneself.
Posted by Clare at 9:15 PM [+]
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Hmm, blogjumping looks fun...
Posted by Clare at 9:02 PM [+]
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Fame!



Courtesy of the BBC, here's me in my library reading a book on Cornish history. I am their 'Student' for next week's budget. This is why my photo and financial details have all been posted on the world's most popular site. But if it could happen to the Queen Mother, I'll put up with it.


Posted by Clare at 8:23 PM [+]
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How is Frank?

Well, it's back to the slow connection so who knows!! Did he get freed last night? Someone please tell me if he gets out
Posted by Clare at 5:03 PM [+]
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Yay!

Got a comment!!

Thanks Rob :)
Posted by Clare at 3:53 PM [+]
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70,000 queue to see Queen Mother

The queue to see the Queen Mother now stretches all the way along the river to Southwark Bridge. People may face a twelve hour wait.


Posted by Clare at 2:11 PM [+]
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Lair irritations

1. Netscape is rubbish. Everything looks wrong on Netscape.
2. There are too many awful bars in London. Avoid any bar that has neon lights within the West End. There are plenty of good bars in the West End but they are not the ones where the bartenders have to ring bells for no reasons, throw bottles around and where there is any sort of 'guestlist'. The same applies for clubs.
3. The water supply of Gower Street has been filled with acid.


Posted by Clare at 1:59 PM [+]
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New admirable blog

Poofle is quite a funny blog. Pretty simple and bitchy, but funny.


Posted by Clare at 1:55 PM [+]
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What's going on with Blogger??? It's been down for ages and has now gone into superfast mode, which I don't trust...


Posted by Clare at 1:53 PM [+]
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More interesting stories in The Observer

Life in British asylums

Society will suffer because of rising house prices

Princes talk about Queen Mother

Peter Sissons may sue Mail over 'abuse'

Posted by Clare at 1:52 PM [+]
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So much for last week's note of caution: Blair is once again backing military action against Iraq, according to the Observer.
Posted by Clare at 11:40 AM [+]
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Review: Giselle at the Royal Opera House (London)

The Royal Opera House, rebuilt a few years ago at huge cost, is now the best theatre in London. From the immense glass foyer to the lovely red interior, it is all designed to impress the tourists (and remind them that there is a bit of space in London.

We sat quite far up, which gave us a good view of the orchestra as well as the ballerinas. Giselle, simply, is the story of a pretty girl who falls in love witha count who calls himself a peasant and upon discovering his engagement to the local countess 'loses her reason' and kills herself. She then joins a group of ghosts called the Wilis (as in to get the..?) whose hobby it is to lurk in forests dancing unsuspecting men to death for larks.

The second act was decidedly the best, with some great group dancing. The scene in a forest was also very atmospheric. Even for people who don't know too much about ballet, Giselle is highly recommended.
Posted by Clare at 11:32 AM [+]
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