Nicky's Page

Nicky was born in London. She's actually a Cockney (that is born within the sound of the Bow Bells) by accident. The ambulance driver who was taking her mother to hospital in North London got lost and they ended up in the East End. Nicky did a degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering at Brunel University, West London. She married AJ in December 1992. She is a part time Technical Writer and Internet Librarian working from home, is studying for an MSc in Information Management and is also a full time mother of two. Her interests include Medieval Re-enactment, calligraphy (fancy writing), photography, family tree research and mopping up puddles on the carpet (see also Hazel and Mairi). click here to send e-mail to Nicky

Publications

work

Internet for Petroleum and Offshore Engineering tutorial
Internet Resources for Environmental Engineering booklet
Internet Resources Newsletter - issue 123 - Book Review - Ethics for the Information Age by Michael J. Quinn
Internet Resources Newsletter - issue 120 - Book Review - Firewalls and Internet Security - Repelling the Wily Hacker by WR Cheswick, S Bellovin and AR Addison
Internet Resources Newsletter - issue 119 - Book Review - A Gift of Fire by Sara Baase
Using the Internet for Historical Research article in "Echoes from the Past" magazine, Oct 2003
Ariadne - issue 35 - Free full-text e-journals and EEVL's Engineering E-journal Search Engine
Ariadne - issue 20 - Getting the most out of Patent information on the Internet (The article is listed at Loughborough University - Patents Page)
Ariadne - issue 19 - Electronic Engineering Resources on the Internet
Ariadne - issue 17 - Teleworking from Home (This article is listed in the Documents in Information Science database, Universität Göttingen Bibliothek and Homeworking.com)
Internet Electrical, Electronic and Communications Engineer tutorial. See also a report on the tutorial launch from Internet Resources Newsletter.
Case Study at the Homeworking without scams site.

see also The Herald and Post, 15/9/5, The Edinburgh Evening News, 8/9/5 and The Scotsman, 8/11/99 article about working from home.
"Teleworking for library and information professionals" - Monica Blake - Aslib, 1999 - ISBN 0 85142 416 3 (pages 64-67)
Brunel University Alumni Office - "Where Are They Now?" Page
"Half a million hits to the EEVL Service!"

my webpage designs

Kenny Young and the Eggplants
Edinburgh University Medieval Re-enactment Society
Leon the God
Anne Forte - artist
(contact me for more details and prices)

hobbies

"Meet a Norman - 1. Queen Matilda" article in Conquest newsletter, Feb 2004
"Using the Internet for Historical Research" article in "Echoes from the Past" magazine, Oct 2003
"Basic Kit Making - Hose" article in Conquest newsletter, Feb 2003
"A Short History of Women Soldiers" article in "Call to Arms" magazine 2002-2003
"James IV and the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh" article in "Echoes from the Past" magazine, Oct 2001
"An Introduction to Early Medieval Textile Techniques" article in "Echoes from the Past" magazine, Feb 2001
"A Viking Wedding" article in "Echoes from the Past" magazine, Oct 2000
"Lothene Experimental Archaeology" article in "Echoes from the Past" magazine, Feb 2000

"Women in the Medieval Guilds" article in "Feudalist Overlord" , Edinburgh University Medieval Re-enactment Society newsletter.
"Oath of the Chivalry of Albion" article in "Feudalist Overlord" , Edinburgh University Medieval Re-enactment Society newsletter.
"Chronicles of the Realm of Perfidious Albion" article in "Feudalist Overlord" , Edinburgh University Medieval Re-enactment Society newsletter.
"Five Medieval Recipes"article in "Feudalist Overlord" , Edinburgh University Medieval Re-enactment Society newsletter.

Some of my favorite books:

"Unofficial Rosie" - Alan McDonald - Futura - 0-7088-3074-9
The story of an unemployed single parent who decides to become a private eye and uncovers corruption in the Council Refuse Collection Department.

"Twopence to Cross the Mersey" - Helen Forrester - Fontana
Autobiographical novel about a girl's life in Liverpool during the depression of the 1930s. There are two sequels "Liverpool Miss" and "By the Waters of Liverpool"

"The Liar" - Stephen Fry - Mandarin - 0-7493-0540-1
Comic novel about British public schools and the secret service.

"Life Before Man" - Margaret Atwood - Virago Press - 0-86068-192-0
Complex story of the breakup of a marriage from the points of view of three characters.

"Fludd" - Hilary Mantel - Penguin - 0-14-010816-5
The story centres on the effect of a new curate arriving in a 1950's traditional English moorland village.

"A Suitable Boy" - Vikram Seth - Phoenix - 1-85799-088-9
Novel about Indian Independence, culture and arranged marriages.

"Egg Dancing" - Liz Jensen - Bloomsbury Publishing Inc - 0 7475 1997 8
A black comedy of genetic engineering, fertility treatments and mental illness.

"Good Behaviour" - Molly Keane - Abacus - 0-349-12075-7
The decline of an Anglo-Irish aristocratic family after the First World War.

"Zodiac" - Neal Stephenson - Bloomsbury - 0-7475-0262-5
An environmental thriller, with very accurate science thrown in.

"The Atrocity Archives" - Charles Stross - Golden Gryphon Press - 1-930846-25-8
A cross between HP Lovecraft stories and a spy thriller. Set in a laundry.

Family Album Index
McAskie Family Tree, Harrison Family Tree
Lothene Home Page