Weekly round-up and open thread, 25 February 2013

Here’s this week’s open thread for discussion and our regular round-up of some of the articles and blogs we’ve noticed over the last week or so, but not had time to post about.

If you have a link or comment that doesn’t fit anywhere else and would like to share it, feel free to drop it in the comments here.

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This week’s closing video is a live performance of “Gentleman Jack”, a song about Anne Lister, by O’Hooley & Tidow from their album The Fragile:

Image attribution and description: The image at the head of this post is called AmphitheaterNPS1; it is a public domain pictogram for an amphitheatre and was found at Wikimedia Commons.