BibliographyMr. Martin Probert
Links are available to publications that are attested online.
Books & Monographs
1995
Four Ball Juggling: From Simple Patterns to Advanced Theory
2018
String Figures from Malawi, Including some from Rwanda, South Africa, and China
(with Alisoun Probert, Richard Hewitt, Samson Phiri, Chikondi Medson)
Bulletin of the International String Figure Association 25 (2018)
2020
Almost Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Astronomy
http://guineaflower.org/wp/the_yellow_books/non-fiction/astronomy
2020
Love Letters of a Swiss Doctor & English Poet
(with Veronika Probert née Bentz)
http://guineaflower.org/wp/the_yellow_books/non_fiction/love_letters
2020
Shakespeare & the Itinerant Street Conjurers
http://guineaflower.org/wp/the_yellow_books/non_fiction/shakespeare
2020
The Adventures of Woodlouse & Earwig
http://guineaflower.org/wp/the_yellow_books/childrens_fiction/woodlouse_and_earwig
2020
The Arms I've Loved & Other Poems
http://guineaflower.org/wp/the_yellow_books/non_fiction/poems
2020
The Awfulness of Tom & Kate
http://guineaflower.org/wp/the_yellow_books/illustrated_humour/tom_and_kate
Articles in Learned Journals
Volume 70 – Number 499 – December 2011
A searchable archive of Bulletin contents listings – how you can help
(with K. Pitts)
Volume 71 – Number 500 – February 2012
A study of gregariousness – larvae of the Buff-tip Phalera bucephala (L.) (Lep. Notodontidae), and similarities with Thaumetopoeidae
Volume 71 – Number 502 – June / July 2012
Processionary larvae in a closed circuit (Lep.: Thaumetopoeidae)
Volume 71 – Number 503 – August / September 2012
Sailor Beetles Cantharis rustica (Col.: Cantharidae), leks, and Müllerian mimicry-rings
Volume 71 – Number 504 – October / November 2012
Damselfly with two abdomens (Odonata: Coenagriidae)
Volume 71 – Number 505 – December 2012
Can caterpillars count? – the Grey Dagger, Acronicta psi (Lep.: Noctuidae)
Volume 72 – Number 506 – February / March 2013
The Vapourer Orgyia antiqua Part 1: from Egg to Pupa (Lep.: Lymantriidae)
Volume 72 – Number 510 – October / November 2013
The Vapourer Orgyia antiqua Part 2: Variation in number of larval instars (Lep.: Lymantriidae)
Volume 73 – Number 514 – September 2014
Larvae of the Emperor moth (Saturnia pavonia, Lep.: Saturniidae) and formation of the chevaux de frise
Volume 73 – Number 515 – December 2014
A study of gregariousness – larvae of the Buff-tip Phalera bucephala (L.) (Notodontidae) – Part 2
Volume 74 – Number 518 – September 2015
Ants in the pants: Lasius niger beneath the skirts of Fuchsia magellanica
Volume 75 – Number 522 – September 2016
Insect behaviour: head burying in Sisyphus schaefferi and walking backward in Pyrrhocoris apterus
Volume 77 – Number 528 – March 2018
A 135-year mystery: why do hawk-moth larvae have abdominal horns (Lep.: Sphingidae)
Volume 77 – Number 530 – September 2018
Rapid evolutionary change in Tricodes alvearius (Col: Cleridae)?
Volume 77 – Number 531 – December 2018
Re “Rapid evolutionary change in Tricodes alvearius?” [Letter]
Volume 79 – Number 536 – March 2020
The Vapourer Orgyia antiqua (Lep.: Lymantriidae) Part 3: males queue patiently to mate with a female
Volume 79 – Number 538 – September 2020
Do wasps (Vespula sp.) ‘begin with the upper flowers and work downwards’?
Volume 4 – 1997 – Pages 185 - 202
New String Figures for the Performing Artist (plus miscellaneous patterns and notes)
Volume 20 – 2013 – Pages 1 - 8
Double Diamonds, Mirror Images, Optical Illusions, Coloured Loops, Red Setters, and a Moral Ending
Volume 20 – 2013 – Pages 9 - 17
The Ultimate Ladder Constructor: An infinity of ladders from a few memorised instructions
Volume 25 – 2018 – Pages 1 - 208
The String Figures of Malawi
(with Alisoun Probert, Richard Hewitt, Samson Phiri)
Volume 25 – 2018 – Pages 209 - 217
Six Rwandan String Figures
(with Richard Hewitt, Samson Phiri, Chikondi Medson)
Volume 25 – 2018 – Pages 218 - 219
Two South African String Figures
(with Richard Hewitt, Samson Phiri)
Volume 25 – 2018 – Pages 220 - 221
A ‘New’ Chinese String Figure
(with Richard Hewitt, Samson Phiri)
Volume 26 – 2019 – Pages 1 - 6
Of snakes and hippopotamuses, and on the identification of individual string-figure makers from an examination of the historical record
Volume 16 – 2004 – Pages 140 - 156
The Torres Strait String Figures in the British Museum A. C. Haddon Collection
Website & Computer Programme
c. 1998 - 2003
The Survival, Origin and Mathematics of String Figures
Unpublished Manuscript
2019
“Love-in-Idleness” – A Drama Adapted from Shakespeare’s ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ for Performance by Learners from Mua School for Deaf Children
(with Veronika Probert, Alisoun Probert)
http://fritillary.org/wp/shakespeare_schools_festival_malawi/love_in_idleness