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  • Planning one conference and catching up on another

    This week has mainly been taken up with preparing for the Social History Society Conference (largely sending emails and trying to chase things that haven’t been finalised yet) and catching up on many of the papers I missed at the Soundscapes in the Early Modern World Conference last summer! Because I was running the SHS…

  • Two concerts in 3 days

    I can’t actually remember the last time I went to two concerts in three days, nor can I remember the last time I was still up at 2am… but this week I have done just that. I went with family to see Johnny McEvoy in Stockport on Thursday and then in Leeds last night. It…

  • Big in Brindle

    It’s been an eventful week. On Monday evening, I was privileged to be able to take my talk about John Balshaw to Brindle, where he wrote his Jigge in the mid-17th century. It was a fabulous evening – I travelled in thunderstorms and the sunset on the way home was amazing. The talk seemed to…

  • It’s Saturday evening

    And I’m not yet back in the habit of writing a blog post on a Friday afternoon. But yesterday I’d have been a bit busy – I was marking essays for the PGCert course I’ve been teaching and then in the evening I was singing in a concert with The Valley Singers in Hurst Green.…

  • Long Week

    It’s been a long week. The early bird rate for the Social History Society Conference closes this evening, so I’ve spent a lot of time answering emails and recording bookings – much more than normal. On top of that, I’ve had to teach an extra three-hour session for my Special Subject, because it had to…