H-ALBION WELCOME
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problems of British and Irish history. Subscription is free
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Sharon Michalove of the University of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign;
Terry Taylor of Louisiana School for Math, Science, and
the Arts;
Richard Gorrie of the University of Guelph;
and Dave Postles of the University of Leicester.
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Terry Taylor: taylort@nsula.edu
Richard Gorrie: rgorrie@uoguelph.ca
Dave Postles: pot@leicester.ac.uk
g) Commercial email operations like CompuServe and America On
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contribution (we will add the name/address otherwise.) To
send them, use one of the following:
1. Send a short email note directly to H-ALBION@msu.edu
2. When you read a message from H-ALBION, use the reply command
(enter REPLY, type a response, and SEND it)
3. Mail a diskette. Save the file on a floppy diskette (we can
handle 3.5" IBM or 5.25" IBM or Macintosh 1.4 Mb format.)
It would be a good idea to save one copy in the original
word processor format (i.e. Word Perfect, Microsoft Word,
etc.) and a second copy in plain vanilla ascii ("text"/
"DOS") format.
Mailing Address:
H-ALBION c/o Sharon Michalove
Department of History
U of Illinois-Urbana
309 Gregory Hall
810 S. Wright Street
Urbana, IL 61801
Phone: (217)333-4145
or
H-ALBION c/o Terry Taylor
Department of History
Louisiana School for Math, Science, and the Arts
715 College Ave.
Natchitoches, LA 71457
Phone: (318)357-3176
or
H-ALBION c/o Richard Gorrie
History Department
University of Guelph
Guelph, Ontario, Canada N1G 2W1
(519) 824-4120 ext.3888
or
H-ALBION c/o Dave Postles
Department of English Local History
University of Leicester
5, Salisbury Rd.,
Leicester LE1 7RH
UK
Phone: 0116 2522766 Fax: 0116 2525769
4. UIUC History Dept. fax number is 217-333-2297. The
department phone number is 217-333-1155.
5. Eventually we hope to get a scanner to read typescript, but
we do not now have that capability.
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judgment of the editor they do not aid the scholarly dialogue. The
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necessary, add name and e-address).
H-ALBION Fileserver
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The weekly files of messages are made available from the H-ALBION
fileserver.
To obtain a list of available messages, send a note to Listserv@msu.edu
with the following command:
Index H-ALBION
To obtain a specific document, send Listserv the command
GET filename filetype
Thus, to obtain this document (entitled "H-ALBION Welcome")
from the fileserver, send a note to Listserv with the
command
GET H-ALBION Welcome
H-ALBION and H-NET gopher servers
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H-Net maintains a gopher server at the University of Illinois at
Chicago, which can be accessed by gopher (USA/Illinois/Illinois-
Chicago/Researcher/History/H-Net or by gopher command gopher UIC.edu).
The H-Net gopher has a linkage to H-Albion's own gopher server, described
below.
Information of interest to H-Albion subscribers is available
via the gopher server at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Job lists, conference calls, bibliographies, etc. are stored on the gopher.
To access it from the UIUC gopher, choose University of Illinois at Urbana-
Champaign Campus Information, then Departmental Information,
then History. You will see a directory for H-Albion. (If you are
using a web browser, the URL is: gopher://gopher.uiuc.edu/11/
UI/DInfo/History/H-Albion).
Contributions to the archive are welcome, and should be sent as files to
H-ALBION@msu.edu.
H-ALBION is sponsored by the H-Net project of the UIC and MSU
history departments. H-Net is a broad initiative to establish electronic
communications among historians and to educate historians in the use of
electronic media. Professor Richard Jensen is the director
of H-Net; write to him anytime at u08946@uicvm.uic.edu for further
information about H-Net (or phone him at home at
615-552-9923). Or send this message to LISTSERV@msu.edu:
GET H-ALBION H-PLAN
H-Net sponsors many other lists pitched to academics.
H-ALBION Editorial Board
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Luc Borot Universite' Paul-Valery, Montpellier (Fr)
Richard Spall Ohio Wesleyan University (US)
Denis Paz Clemson University (US)
Larry Poos Catholic University Of America (US)
Donald Spaeth University of Glasgow (GB)
Marion Diamond University of Queensland (Aus)
Joseph Coohill University of Oxford (GB)
Mark Hall UC Berkeley (US)
Sarah Richardson University of Warwick (GB)
Lamar Hill UC Irvine (US)
Newton Key Eastern Illinois University (US)
Caroline Hibbard UIUC (US)
Carolyn Schribner Rhodes College (US)
Susan Mumm York University (Can)
Nicholas Whyte Queen's University, Belfast (UK)
We hope that you will enjoy H-Albion.