User:Pigsonthewing



I am Andy Mabbett, from Birmingham , England.

About me
I have been a Wikimedia volunteer since 2003. Additionally, I am (pro bono) with. You can find more about me on my English Wikipedia user page or my website: http://pigsonthewing.org.uk, or follow me as @pigsonthewing on Twitter or @Pigsonthewing@mastodon.social on Mastodon.

My contributions
Works I've transcribed or uploaded - and in all cases I acknowledge the colleagues who have worked collegially with me on them - include:

Books

 * Her Benny
 * Bird Haunts and Nature Memories
 * Some Particulars of the Life and Adventures of James Guidney - third edition
 * Territory in Bird Life
 * The British Warblers A History with Problems of Their Lives
 * The South Staffordshire Coalfield
 * Aircraft in Warfare
 * Notes of a journey across the Isthmus of Krà
 * Aerial Flight, Volume 1: Aerodynamics
 * Aerial Flight, Volume 2: Aerodoetics - in prep.
 * Showell's Dictionary of Birmingham
 * The Trial, at Large, of William Booth and his Associates
 * The Trial of William Booth, of Perry Barr
 * The Monumental Inscriptions in the Parish Church of S. Michael, Coventry
 * Walks in the Black Country and its Green Border-Land
 * A Catalogue of the Birmingham Collection - in prep (very long!)
 * The Grand Junction Railway Companion to Liverpool, Manchester, and Birmingham
 * A Poetic Survey Round Birmingham
 * Boy Scouts and What They Do
 * Account of the Boys' Charity School founded, in 1733, by Mrs. Katherine Bayley, in the city of Coventry
 * Report from the Select Committee on Steam Carriages
 * Inland Transit
 * Wild Nature Won by Kindness
 * Incandescent Electric Lighting
 * The Philosophy of Beards
 * The Peregrine Falcon at the Eyrie
 * Aerial Travel for Business or Pleasure - (note: two pages missing)
 * The Gospel by Wireless
 * A Selection of Original Songs, Scraps, Etc., by Ned Farmer (1st ed.)
 * Ohio State Exhibit - A Century of Progress International Exposition
 * Engines and Men

in prep

 * A Century of Birmingham Life
 * Vol I
 * Vol II
 * Index:Harmonia ruralis (Bolton, 1794) (IA harmoniaruraliso00bolt).pdf
 * A Selection of Original Songs, Scraps, Etc., by Ned Farmer (3rd ed.)
 * Final Report of the Northwest Territory Celebration Commission
 * Index:Midland naturalist (IA midlandnaturalis01lond).pdf
 * The Pictorial Flora; or British Botany Delineated
 * Sweet Home; or Friendships Golden Altar

To do

 * File:Handbook of Birmingham (1886).djvu
 * File:Reference to some of the works executed in stained glass - William Raphael Eginton.pdf
 * https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/34271

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Articles etc.

 * Craftsmanship
 * Glasgow Advertiser/1792-08-13 - Richard Arkwright
 * John Gray - Mercury, Hobart - 1873-01-03
 * Examiner (Launceston, Tasmania)/1929/"A Romany in the Fields"
 * Memoir of Mr John Legg of Market Lavington, Wilts
 * Natural History of the Nightingale
 * Prominent Californian Ornithologists. III. A. M. Shields
 * The Grasshopper Warbler in North Worcestershire (partly)
 * Specification of William Alltoft Summers and Nathaniel Ogle : steam-engine and other boilers
 * Contra-Props
 * Lucy Etheldred Broadwood. Born August 9th, 1858. Died August 22nd, 1929
 * Art in a Garret, Nottingham Journal, 7 May 1920, Page 1
 * Playing Cards. Reprinted from The Times of Dec. 3rd, 1874
 * Chance's the Cuckoo's Secret
 * The New Zealand and South Australian Exhibition
 * Which Sex Selects the Nesting Locality
 * Howard's 'Territory in Bird Life'
 * The Singing Tree
 * The Late Hon Evelyn A. Denison
 * The life, trial, and execution, of Wm. Booth
 * The trial and execution of William Booth
 * On the Atmospheric Bude-Light
 * index:A note on grappling tail-hooks in anopheline larvae - M.O.T. Iyengar - 1922.pdf - in prep
 * An Accommodating Advertisement and an Awkward Accident
 * A Nesting Reeve in Norfolk
 * Notes and Comments (The Fan-tailed Squirrel)
 * Aborigines of South Australia
 * Edward Warrulan, an Australian Lad
 * The Medal for China
 * Sailing of the 'Symmetry'
 * Welsh Artist - Death of Mr George Howell Baker
 * Death of Mr G Howell Baker
 * The Ideas of an Artist
 * South Wales Artist's Career
 * Cornelius J. Field dies of Typhoid
 * The Röntgen Rays
 * Sciagraphs of British Batrachians and Reptiles
 * 112 Days' Hard Labour
 * UK Parliamentary White Paper Cmd 1704
 * UK Parliamentary White Paper Cmd 1760
 * Samuel Fleming, M.B., C.M.
 * Physics on Wikipedia
 * A Bridgend Artist
 * The Flora of Warwickshire (review)

The Radio Times

 * My message to "Listeners"
 * The Romance of the "Old Vic"
 * Do We Inherit Our Habits?
 * Why Do We?
 * The Chief Engineer
 * Modern Witchcraft
 * My Ideal Wireless Set
 * Wireless In Every Home
 * Broadcasting the "Old Vic"
 * Why Does a Cat Purr?
 * How Plays Will be Broadcast
 * My Microphonic Debut
 * Comets and Their Story
 * Burma: The Land of Thrills
 * A Plea for World Peace
 * Cardiff Calling!
 * Should Parliament be Broadcast?
 * The Prize I Didn't Win
 * Do You Enjoy Grand Opera?
 * Birthday Reminiscences
 * The Magic of Folk Song
 * The Songs I Like to Sing
 * Why Opera Should be Broadcast
 * Animals in Disguise
 * My Aerial Adventures
 * Looking Back—In 1965!
 * Negro Rhymes and Melodies
 * A Happy Idea
 * The Mystery of the Ether
 * What Women Listeners Gain
 * My Struggle for Fame
 * The Art of Merrymaking
 * The Centipede

The Times

 * The New America: The Melting Pot (1917-07-16)
 * The New America: Influences (1917-07-17)
 * The New America: "Der Tag" (1917-07-18)
 * The New America: National Spirit (1917-07-19)
 * The New America: The Call and the Response (1917-07-20)
 * The New America: The Army, Old and New (1917-07-21)
 * America At War: Military Effort (1918-03-21)
 * America At War: Civilian Effort (1918-03-22)
 * America At War: Successes and Difficulties (1918-03-23)
 * America At War: The President and His Colleagues (1918-03-25)
 * America At War: Home Troubles (1918-03-26)
 * America At War: The Future (1918-03-27)
 * What We Owe To France (1918-07-15)

Poems/ songs

 * The Nightingale at Great Barr
 * An Old Man's Reverie
 * Saint Cecilia
 * The Old Man's Angelus
 * Forty Years On
 * In a Wood
 * Ode to Spring
 * After the Storm
 * The Fox
 * Hope
 * Summer Is—
 * Twilight
 * In Sunset's Hour
 * S.S. Bremen

Correspondence

 * Alexander Graham Bell to John Adams Kingsbury - 1922-04-18
 * Admiral Forbes's reasons for not signing Admiral Byng's Death Warrant
 * Letter from Reginald Oswald Pearson to Sydney Langford Jones
 * Message to the Joint Force
 * Letter from Dr Lettsom

Miscellanea

 * Coalbrookdale Company auction poster, 1910
 * Report on the Shrivenham train crash of 15 January 1936
 * 'Birth of Burns' programme, 1859
 * Petition of John Wilkes to the House of Lords, 1768
 * Birmingham Police Act 1839
 * Youdan Football Cup - General Rules
 * A Warning Voice to the Inhabitants of Bilston
 * Rules for the Girls School at Coalbrookdale
 * The Laying of the Foundation Stone of the Railway Station at Huddersfield
 * The Sausage Man

Useful

 * https://ia-upload.toolforge.org/
 * https://ia-upload.wmcloud.org/
 * /Cheatsheet
 * Sections:
 * Example
 * NOugat in browser (Maths OCR)
 * Search in pages:
 * 
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External

 * https://combinepdf.com/

Templates

 * Author
 * PD-old; 1951


 * works
 * PD-old; 1946

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Auxiliary Table of Contents

DNB link

EB1911 link

Scripts

 * User:Pigsonthewing/common.css
 * User:Pigsonthewing/common.js