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Day: February 8, 2017

The drummer

Having written blog posts on the guitar solo and the bassline, I had been planning a follow-up on drum beats. The need to do so now has been triggered by the sad news of the death last month of the greatest of all drummers – sorry, but I will brook no argument here – JakiRead More

Luke McKernan February 8, 2017January 1, 2019Comments (3)

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How many newspapers does the @britishlibrary @BL_newsroom hold per county? Using the dataset available here: https://doi.org/10.23636/1136 I mapped the UK and Irish collection, by volume. Spoiler: I have made many compromises 1/4

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