Thursday 14 October, at 7.30pm BST (online) John Balshaw’s Jigge by Dr Jenni Hyde – online book launch of the latest Lancaster University Regional Heritage Centre publication (joint event with Friends of Lancashire Archives) This new book presents the first published transcription of a little-known manuscript, originating in 17th century Lancashire and now held by the British Library (Add. MS  68891).  The document…

It’s been a long old summer, and there hasn’t been a lot of rest. I’ve spent most of it revising my article on John Haywood for publication, checking the proofs for John Balshaw’s Jigge (more to come on this soon, but… Spoiler Alert- it’s now on sale through the Regional Heritage Centre at Lancaster University)…

This is the second of two posts about some of the papers I managed to catch up on after the Soundscapes in the Early Modern World Conference. Unfortunately, I didn’t have time to listen to everything and I only managed to listen to two of the Keynotes. One was by Rosa Salzberg (Warwick) on ‘The…

Because I was administering the Social History Society Conference a couple of weeks ago, I largely missed two other conferences at which I was actually speaking! I’m glad to say that both were recorded, so I’ve been able to catch up on them later, although to be honest, I simply haven’t had the time to…

Much of my time over the last couple of months has been taken up by organising the Social History Society Online Conference and by the time you read this, it will just have finished. My role has been to co-ordinate more than 100 speakers and host most of the panels (quietly in the background –…