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“Hanging on in quiet desperation is the English way.”

Office software

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footpedals.eu  is the home of online foot pedals, especially for transcribing your recordings. Order online for quickest response.

Firefox

Firefox is a fully featured, fast, efficient, secure and powerful web browser which takes us away from the Microsoft hegemony. And it’s free.

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Oral history sites

Oral History Society (UK)

Waltham Forest Oral History Workshop

Book choice

Captain John Orrok’s frank and engaging letters give a graphic account of the life of a young Scottish army officer serving with Wellington's army in India in the early nineteenth century. They tell of the ups and downs of his developing career in the 33rd Regiment, his deep love for his wife Betsy and their growing family, and his yearning for the fireside back home in Banff.

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