Welcome Wellcome

Today Wellcome has made available a wonderful collection of images,"thousands of years of visual culture"  with Creative Commons licensing. The image above comes with the following details:

A humorous image of two men wearing revolving top hats with several attachments for optical aids and tobacco etc. Coloured etching. 1830 Published: T. McLean,London (26 Haymarket) :  1 January 1830 
Copyrighted work available under Creative Commons Attribution only licence CC BY 2.0, see http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ 

It is wonderful to see the increase in Creative Commons works being made available for all to use and share. Browse and enjoy this newly available selection of images.

Historical fiction

2014 Reading challenge

I've joined the challenge for 2014 at Historical Tapestry. This is my favourite genre and by joining the challenge I will be reminded to write reviews for each of the titles I read. I'm aiming for the Ancient History level of 25 historical novels in 2014.

My Historical Fiction tag in LibraryThing reveals that I read 23 in this genre in the last 12 months but I did not write reviews. Here's hoping for a year of great reads.
The first three lined up are Eleanor Catton's The Luminaries, Fiona McIntosh's The Tailor's Girl and The Aviator's Wife by Melanie Benjamin.

What will you be reading this year?

Christmas tree 2013

Over at Genea-Musings there's an ancestors' surname Christmas tree, the idea came from Ancestors Live Here.
Rather than use ancestors' surnames, I've created one for my extended family.
I used Tagxedo for the tree shape and fonts, added just first names of siblings, our children, nephews, nieces and their partners and children. The baubles were added in MS Word and the screen clipping tool did the rest.

Merry Christmas to you and yours too!