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  • Where did the summer go?

    It’s Friday evening, and for once, I’m actually going to publish my blog on the evening I write it. What that means is that what I say I’ve done this week, I’ve actually done this week, as opposed to several weeks ago because the post was scheduled. Today, I have been on annual leave. I’m…

  • Providence, News and Editorial in Early Modern Ballads

    Back in January, the Historical Journal published an article I’d been working on since my trip to the English Broadside Ballad Archive Conference celebrating the database’s 25th anniversary back in 2023. Entitled ‘Providence, Editorial and News in Early Modern Ballads‘, it examines the role of religious moralising in early modern ballads. I’m very fond of…

  • Anglesey

    Just a quick post, to keep up the routine really but also to point out that I took a holiday. An actual holiday in Anglesey during which I did no research, looked at no emails, and didn’t check my calendar. What I did look at was the sea and the sunset. I took a day…

  • Festival-Adjacent Weekend Working on the Pilgrimage of Grace

    At the end of July, I took my daughter and her friend to the Fantasy Forest Festival at Sudeley Castle, near Winchcombe in Gloucestershire. They’ve been going for a few years, and I act as the taxi, running them down there, and to and from the bed and breakfast, and I then spend the weekend…

  • FutureLearn AI in Education Course Week 3

    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…