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  • 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…

  • Busy, busy, busy

    I knew I hadn’t posted much lately, but I didn’t realise that there had been quite so little for so long… I’ve got lots to catch up on, then. So this post will be a brief rundown of what I’ve been up to, and there will, I hope, be more on many of these points…

  • Field Trip to the John Rylands Library

    In early December I took my third-year special subject students on a field trip to the John Rylands Library in Manchester. At least that was the plan. In the event, I took part remotely while the students visited in person, but even so, it was really interesting to get out of the university and to…