User:Pigsonthewing

I am Andy Mabbett, from Birmingham, England.

I have been a Wikimedia volunteer since 2003. Additionally, I am Wikimedian in Residence at Coventry University (a paid role) and at ORCID (pro bono).

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.

Pigsonthewing's Wikimedia accounts:
Commons	Wikipedia	Wiktionary	Wikibooks	Wikinews	Wikivoyage
Wikidata	Wikiquote	Wikiversity	Wikispecies	Meta	Foundation

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 - in prep.
• The South Staffordshire Coalfield - in prep.
• Aircraft in Warfare - in prep.
• Notes of a journey across the Isthmus of Krà
• Aerial Flight, Volume 1: Aerodynamics - in prep.
• Showell's Dictionary of Birmingham - in prep.

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
• Specification of William Alltoft Summers and Nathaniel Ogle : steam-engine and other boilers
• Contra-Props - in prep
• 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

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

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

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

Miscellanea

• Coalbrookdale Company auction poster, 1910

Useful

• https://tools.wmflabs.org/ia-upload/
• /Cheatsheet

External

• https://combinepdf.com/

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To do

• https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/34271
• File:Inland Transit - Cundy - 1834.djvu
• File:Report from the Select Committee on Steam Carriages.pdf

Scripts

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