BiblioPhilous
@bibliophilous.bsky.social
He/him. Bookish, bikeish, brewish, bluish. Kjipuktuk. Burgeoning #DalhousieU Digipres/Archives person, former tome-slinger & metadataist. Coffee crusher. #Critcat, #Critarch, #digipres.
Feel for their fans, the league, et al.; one step forward, two steps back.
Hard to succeed when they were considered an afterthought by their own ownership (if considered at all).
Hard to succeed when they were considered an afterthought by their own ownership (if considered at all).
November 21, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Feel for their fans, the league, et al.; one step forward, two steps back.
Hard to succeed when they were considered an afterthought by their own ownership (if considered at all).
Hard to succeed when they were considered an afterthought by their own ownership (if considered at all).
From our own holdings, a photograph of The Dumbells while on tour in London in 1918, including two members of the troupe -- Ross Hamilton and Allan Murray -- dressed in drag.
![A black-and-white studio portrait of 16 members of The Dumbells troupe, taken while on tour in London, showing two troupe members in drag. [Dalhousie University Archives, PC2 (Waldren Studios Photograph Collection), Box 260, Folder 10]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:slvyok6xucq2neh2zknfh4yf/bafkreih6hbq2bi7ukwitc4dojmhh4xdshmc2tdhkwgsv7owux3yav2ae44@jpeg)
November 18, 2025 at 5:41 PM
From our own holdings, a photograph of The Dumbells while on tour in London in 1918, including two members of the troupe -- Ross Hamilton and Allan Murray -- dressed in drag.
Not only that a Dal campus newspaper was found by a Dal grad, caked in mud in a Flanders trench, but that he had also SPOTTED HIS OWN NAME in that newspaper!
findingaids.library.dal.ca
November 14, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Not only that a Dal campus newspaper was found by a Dal grad, caked in mud in a Flanders trench, but that he had also SPOTTED HIS OWN NAME in that newspaper!
Addendum: for more on the subject of the article on the cover of the recovered paper, George William Stairs, please consult Matt Reeder's Dal News article from last November: www.dal.ca/news/2024/11...
A former student's sacrifice: Mud‑stained newspaper chronicles story of the first Dalhousian killed in The Great War
George Stairs set a new academic record for marks when he was a student at Dalhousie. Just a few years later, he perished serving in the First World War — a story of sacrifice captured in compelling f...
www.dal.ca
November 11, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Addendum: for more on the subject of the article on the cover of the recovered paper, George William Stairs, please consult Matt Reeder's Dal News article from last November: www.dal.ca/news/2024/11...
"Not only," MacMechan adds, "did it pass the censor, but it reached the point from which it set out in a fair state of preservation, in fact quite fresh, but for a coating of Flanders mud." /thread
![The front page of the November 17th, 1915 issue of the Dalhousie Gazette found in a Flanders trench by Lt. Owen Bell Jones on December 20th, sent to Archibald MacMechan, bypassing the censors. The front cover features an article about the first-known Dalhousie-related death during the Great War, that of George William Stairs. [from MS-1-Ref, OS Box 18, Folder 32, Dalhousie University Archives]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:slvyok6xucq2neh2zknfh4yf/bafkreidmv2vosx4tongjypzy2khvqqts24paul3yvwfoyidipb5xqs3toa@jpeg)
![Page 4 of the November 17th, 1915 issue of the Dalhousie Gazette, found by Owen Bell Jones in a Flanders trench, caked in mud. [from MS-1-Ref, OS Box 18, Folder 32, Dalhousie University Archives]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:slvyok6xucq2neh2zknfh4yf/bafkreidbczlxuyyz5agunyuyvrsxq76azva6phn2oz46t5onwwxs3nbd5a@jpeg)
November 11, 2025 at 2:48 PM
"Not only," MacMechan adds, "did it pass the censor, but it reached the point from which it set out in a fair state of preservation, in fact quite fresh, but for a coating of Flanders mud." /thread
While Jones was unsure of its origin, MacMechan posed a possibility [unverified]: "There are several Dalhousians in the 25th, notably Captain Jothan Logan [&] as the Gazette as printed on the 17th & unearthed in Flanders a month later, it could not have been very ong in the particular dug-out."
November 11, 2025 at 2:48 PM
While Jones was unsure of its origin, MacMechan posed a possibility [unverified]: "There are several Dalhousians in the 25th, notably Captain Jothan Logan [&] as the Gazette as printed on the 17th & unearthed in Flanders a month later, it could not have been very ong in the particular dug-out."