Hello all,
I rarely contribute to Friday afternoon postings (in fact I usually
recommend suspending archives-nra on Friday lunchtime and resuming on Monday
morning), but...
Doesn't the fact that the United Kingdom (of GB and NI) is one state made up
of several nations pose a potential interoperability problem?
I appreciate that the gazetteer presently being constructed is of 'Great
Britain' only (not even 'the British Isles', then?), but colleagues in the
US and Australia, for example, where multiple states make up a single
nation, would probably scratch their heads at the reversal.
How would we go about constructing an international typology, if we wanted
to?
Now there's a Friday afternoon question...
Colin S. Gale
Archives & Museum
Bethlem Royal Hospital
Monks Orchard Road
Beckenham, Kent BR3 3BX
Tel: 020 8776 4053
Opening hours: Mon-Fri 9.30am-5.00pm (Archives by appointment only). The
Museum contains a remarkable collection of pictures by artists who have
suffered from mental disorder, including Richard Dadd and Louis Wain.
The Archives document the history of Bethlem Hospital and the Maudsley
Hospital.
The South London and Maudsley NHS Trust provides mental health and
substance misuse services to people from Croydon, Lambeth, Southwark and
Lewisham, substance misuse services in Bexley, Greenwich and Bromley,
and specialist services to people across the UK.
Visit http://www.slam.nhs.uk for information about the trust
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