Blog Posts

  • New Office

    I have a new office. This is important, because it marks my transition to my permanent role in the History Department at Lancaster. In early February, I will be handing over the role of Administrator for the Social History Society to my successor so that I can concentrate on my 4-day teaching role but still…

  • Reblogged from Early Modern Female Book Ownership – The Worckes of Thomas Becon (1564)

    by Jake Arthur In the hunt for women’s marginalia, the libraries of one of the oldest colleges in Oxford is not the likeliest port of call. Unlike … The Worckes of Thomas Becon (1564)

  • Book Contract

    It’s been a particularly long week – not really sure why, I just seem to be very tired – but I have had some good news. I seem to have had a contract through for our co-authored Cambridge Elements book on news in early modern Europe. It’s based on the EDPOP panel I gave in…

  • Week 4…

    Today is the end of week 4… I had planned to write a weekly update this term saying what I’d been up to, but as it’s already week 4, that’s clearly not happened. Anyway, I’ve been auditing one of the digital humanities MA course on digital texts, and this morning we were talking about writing…