User:Pigsonthewing

I am Andy Mabbett, from Birmingham, England.

I have been a Wikimedia volunteer since 2003. Additionally, I am Wikimedian in Residence (pro bono) with ORCID. 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
• The South Staffordshire Coalfield
• Aircraft in Warfare
• Notes of a journey across the Isthmus of Krà
• Aerial Flight, Volume 1: Aerodynamics
• Aerial Flight, Volume 2: Aerodoetics - in prep.
• Showell's Dictionary of Birmingham
• The Trial, at Large, of William Booth and his Associates
• The Trial of William Booth, of Perry Barr
• The Monumental Inscriptions in the Parish Church of S. Michael, Coventry
• Walks in the Black Country and its Green Border-Land
• A Catalogue of the Birmingham Collection - in prep (very long!)
• The Grand Junction Railway Companion to Liverpool, Manchester, and Birmingham - in prep
• A Poetic Survey Round Birmingham
• Boy Scouts and What They Do
• Account of the Boys' Charity School founded, in 1733, by Mrs. Katherine Bayley, in the city of Coventry
• Report from the Select Committee on Steam Carriages
• Inland Transit

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
• 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
• Chance's the Cuckoo's Secret
• The New Zealand and South Australian Exhibition
• Which Sex Selects the Nesting Locality
• Howard's 'Territory in Bird Life'
• The Singing Tree
• The Late Hon Evelyn A. Denison
• The life, trial, and execution, of Wm. Booth
• The trial and execution of William Booth
• On the Atmospheric Bude-Light
• index:A note on grappling tail-hooks in anopheline larvae - M.O.T. Iyengar - 1922.pdf - in prep
• An Accommodating Advertisement and an Awkward Accident
• A Nesting Reeve in Norfolk
• Notes and Comments (The Fan-tailed Squirrel)
• Aborigines of South Australia
• Edward Warrulan, an Australian Lad
• The Medal for China
• Sailing of the 'Symmetry'
• Welsh Artist - Death of Mr George Howell Baker
• Death of Mr G Howell Baker
• The Ideas of an Artist
• South Wales Artist's Career

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
• My Aerial Adventures
• Looking Back—In 1965!
• Negro Rhymes and Melodies
• A Happy Idea
• The Mystery of the Ether

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
• Ode to Spring
• After the Storm
• The Fox
• Hope
• Summer Is—
• Twilight
• In Sunset's Hour
• S.S. Bremen

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
• Message to the Joint Force
• Letter from Dr Lettsom

Miscellanea

• Coalbrookdale Company auction poster, 1910
• Report on the Shrivenham train crash of 15 January 1936
• 'Birth of Burns' programme, 1859
• Petition of John Wilkes to the House of Lords, 1768
• Birmingham Police Act 1839
• Youdan Football Cup - General Rules

Useful

• https://ia-upload.toolforge.org/
  • https://ia-upload.wmcloud.org/
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External

• https://combinepdf.com/

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To do

• https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/34271

Scripts

• User:Pigsonthewing/common.css
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