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  • FutureLearn AI in Education Course Week 2

    As part of our training in Artificial Intelligence, a number of staff in the Faculty of Creative Arts and Humanities at Liverpool Hope University were given the opportunity to undertake the King’s College, London, FutureLearn course on AI in Education. It’s a subject about which I have very mixed feelings, so here are my reflections…

  • FutureLearn AI in Education Course Week 1

    As part of our training in Artificial Intelligence, a number of staff in the Faculty of Creative Arts and Humanities at Liverpool Hope University were given the opportunity to undertake the King’s College, London, FutureLearn course on AI in Education. It’s a subject about which I have very mixed feelings, so here are my reflections…

  • Update

    Looking back at the blog, it appears that it is nearly two years since I last posted a blog. And it turns out a lot can happen in two years. Lancaster has seen a lot of changes… The history department was subsumed into a School of Global Affairs last summer, and my fixed term contract…

  • John Roberts and Malfeasance in the Early Seventeenth-Century Prison System

    I’m really proud to announce that my John Roberts article has finally been published. After more than 13 years of work, today the article was published in Volume 12 of Law, Crime and History. ‘Patronage, Recusancy and Malfeasance in the Early Modern Prison System: A New Source Related to Saint John Roberts and Robert Cecil’…

  • SHS Conference 2024 Part 3

    This is third in a series of three posts about the Social History Society Conference. On Wednesday I woke up early and couldn’t get back to sleep. This gave me plenty of chance to ponder what we’d heard so far. That morning I chaired a panel in the Environment, Heritage, Spaces, and Places strand: ‘Landscape, Environment…