Iain Bell

Awards for participation

	Proofread of the Month October 2009 Old-Time Recipes for Home Made Wines Cordials and Liqueurs

	Proofread of the Month February 2010 The Craftsmanship of Writing

	Proofread of the Month September 2010 Picturesque New Zealand

	Proofread of the Month March 2011 The Art of Bookbinding

	Proofread of the Month December 2011 Yule Logs

	Proofread of the Month March 2012 Sawdust and Spangles

	Proofread of the Month April 2012 Merry Muses of Caledonia

	Proofread of the Month May 2012 Octavia Hill's work

	Proofread of the Month July 2012 Picturesque Jamaica

	Proofread of the Month July 2012 A Wayfarer in China

	Proofread of the Month August 2012 The Oak

	Proofread of the Month September 2012 The European Concert in the Eastern Question

	Proofread of the Month October 2012 The American Indian

	Proofread of the Month January 2013 Short works (8 completed)

	Proofread of the Month March 2013 Japanese Plays and Playfellows

	Proofread of the Month September 2013 First Voyage Round the World

	Wikisource's Tenth Anniversary Contest

	Proofread of the Month December 2013 How to Play Chess

	Proofread of the Month January 2014 British Pamphlets

	Proofread of the Month April 2014 The Spirit of the Nation

	Proofread of the Month May 2014 Lake Ngami

	Proofread of the Month February 2015 Kopal-Kundala

	Proofread of the Month May 2015 Provincial Geographies of India: Burma

	Proofread of the Month July 2015 Chuang Tzŭ

	Proofread of the Month September 2015 My Climbs in the Alps and Caucasus

	Proofread of the Month October 2015 Moll Flanders

	Proofread of the Month January 2016 (first work) The Kiss and its History

	Proofread of the Month August 2016 Index:The Mythology of the Aryan Nations.djvu

My interest is mainly railways, but the vast majority of railway literature is still in copyright. Most of the material in the Public Domain is pre-World War I. What there is, however, is targeted at the professional reader, rather than the hobbyist or enthusiast.

Consequently, I make occasional forays into military history or Proofread of the Month.

Works that I have helped with

• Historical Record of the Fifty-Sixth, or the West Essex Regiment of Foot
• One Hundred English Folksongs (but not the sheet music — that’s just too hard at the moment!)
• Steam Locomotive Construction and Maintenance