This year, the Historical Association conference moved online, with mainly pre-recorded lectures available for several weeks before the conference and live Q&A sessions during the conference week itself. This meant that I could not only flit about between lectures much more, but also access them in an order that suited me. This is the third…

This year, the Historical Association conference moved online, with mainly pre-recorded lectures available for several weeks before the conference and live Q&A sessions during the conference week itself. This meant that I could not only flit about between lectures much more, but also access them in an order that suited me. This is the second…

This year, the Historical Association conference moved online, with mainly pre-recorded lectures available for several weeks before the conference and live Q&A sessions during the conference week itself. This meant that I could not only flit about between lectures much more, but also access them in an order that suited me. This is the first…

My fiend hasn’t featured much lately in the blog (so if you’ve only arrived here recently, you can be forgiven for wondering what I’m on about), but a few weeks ago, when I was completely snowed under with work that meant I was working 14 hour days, he sent me Mary Lindemann’s presidential address to…

For the first time since I go tmy PhD, I know before the summer vacation that I’m going to be teaching next academic year. I’ve got 5 dissertations to supervise and the possibility of a module on a distance learning course, but the thing I’m really looking foward to is creating my own 3rd year…