Sunday Sundries: Halloween Special

Miscellaneous items I found of interest during the week.


Divining the Witch of York: Propaganda and Prophecy
Thanks to Brenda Turner for the tip.

Older than Dracula: in search of the English vampire

Grave Week from Atlas Obscura
From Herschel Island to the Namibian Desert and Beyond

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BitTorrent: Voltage Pictures and the Massive Mass Litigation Mess in Canada
From Excess Copyright, reverse class action lawsuit gets a rough legal ride.

Ancestry.com Is In Cahoots With Public Records Agencies, A Group Suspects

Signatures: the Magazine of Library and Archives Canada
The theme of the Fall/Winter 2018 issue of Signatures is acquisitions of all types, including those that bolster LAC’s claim to be “Canada’s memory”: archives, government records and publications.