the internet has changed some things
Jan. 6th, 2011 10:56 amFrom scholar Susan Reynolds, talking about doing research after coming home from her day job in the mid-1960s: "I thought I might toy with some 19th-century history, because medieval history’s unsuitable to do in the evenings, or the sort of medieval history I was thinking of with documents and so on." A lot of documents are online now, although certainly not all (or maybe not enough).