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  • Primary research

    I’ve changed tack a bit this week.  Instead of doing random keyword searches or looking up all the records in English for each year on EEBO, I looked up recusant women on the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, made some notes on them and then started trying to find references to them on EEBO, State…

  • Weekly update

    I didn’t do my update last night, so here it is. Yesterday was much more productive. I checked all the records for 1555, which was interesting, if a little on the slow side. In the afteroon I carried on with my secondary reading – I’ve moved on to Megan Matchinske, because it was shorter. I…

  • Archers Break

    That’s ‘The Archers’ on Radio 4, not an alcoholic drink of some sort, in case you were wondering! The children went back to school yesterday, so I did a bit of work on my John Roberts piece (I think I might have finished it and I’m certainly pleased with my progress) and proofread a couple…

  • Christmas update

    Well, I did get a couple more days’ work done, which was good.  I’ve got lots of potentially interesting records to look at on EEBO when I get chance.  I’ve started reading Anne Dillon’s ‘Construction of Martyrdom’ book, which I have to say I’m finding heavy going.  It’s very repetitive.  I’ve also read some interesting…

  • Coming up to Christmas

    This week’s most important news is that I’ve managed to order a turkey for Christmas without having to remortgage the house!  I also went to four different school Christmas concerts on Wednesday.  The children are going rather loopy with excitement. On Tuesday evening I had my Spanish exam, which I sat while recovering from a…