User talk:Ritchie333

Hi Ritchie!

Not sure what you think or whether you can be bothered - but it might be nice to start making listings of things on Hansard here, in the same way as we have categorised and provided commentary on files in archives.

Depends how "into" research you are, but for me, I find this place very useful for keeping track of what I've found previously. Without it I'm left scrabbling around for bits of paper and trying to remember where I found a particular detail. If it would be useful for you to catalogue things other than National Archive files then do as you please - I think I enabled general users to do pretty much anything on here so fill your boots. --Chris5156 10:36, 4 December 2009 (UTC)

Well ideally I'd take a laptop into the National Archives and type everything up on a text editor - since I can scribble down information several orders of magnitude faster than on pen and paper. Nevertheless, that would still be "rough" notes, and I'd use this place to flesh out the vague scribbles so they make sense to everybody else.

To be honest, the main thing I've always been interested in is the history of roads, particularly any social, political and geographical reasons behind picking a particular main route. I think I've played down this interest a bit since Guy banged on about route numbering until everybody was sick of it. Still, I would definitely like to get hold of a published copy of the 1922 Roads List and get every route logged, probably by transcribing it via camera copies (or getting somebody with lots of time and motiviation like ooooh Jeni perhaps ;-D). I'll drop DavidB a line to see where he got his copy from and what the actual published title is.

You have a very good point about Hansard - I didn't keep any references of the notes I used for the Winchester Bypass page on the wiki, for example. I think is primarily because I could google for them again if I had to, but obviously this will take time and effort. The main thing I would say is that "files" in Hansard are a lot shorter, they're typically analogous to an individual letter or paper inside an MT file. So we're likely to find more of them. Still, might as well give it a go and see what happens. --Ritchie333 11:03, 4 December 2009 (UTC)