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  • Media Magazine

    As well as my day job, I am an editor of the Historical Association’s members’ magazine, The Historian. It’s an interesting thing to do, and brings me into contact with all sorts of people – not just academic historians, but also our members who write for us too. We produce four magazines a year, and…

  • Jimmy Dyer’s Statue

    As I write, it’s early on a Saturday morning and I’m in a Carlisle hotel room. I am up here visiting family, and spent yesterday evening writing lectures on gender, social conflict and witchcraft, but what was more interesting was the statue I found when we went for a walk round the city centre. Frankly,…

  • Silent Discussion

    On Thursday, I tried a new teaching technique – well, new to me anyway. One of the perennial problems in teaching seminars is getting everyone to join in. They are often dominated by just a few voices, while others don’t want to speak. Every week, we set a couple of readings and a source or…

  • New instagram account

    Just a quick post tonight. It’s been a busy week as it was the first week of teaching and it’s a new module on witchcraft, but I wanted to mention that I’ve set up a new instagram account for my work and research (not that there’s a lot of research going on at the moment,…

  • 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…