On Tuesday morning, I taught my last seminar of the academic year. Yes, I’ve still got a stack of grading to do and various bits of admin, I’ve got a supervision meeting with my doctoral student and a report to write for the impact project based on the Lancaster Castle MOOC, but I’ve taught my…

Like most of the rest of the education community in this country, I’ve suddenly had to move my teaching online. Fortunately, in my department the decision was made to record the Week 20 lectures and upload them to the Moodle, but to put the Week 20 seminars, tutorials and workshops off until Week 21 (after…

I’m used to working from home. Up until last September, I did it a lot. I’ve never found it particularly difficult to motivate myself, nor fallen prey to the many possible distractions. Even having three children and my other half in the house, I’m pretty good at either ignoring them, or dropping things for a…

This is just a quick announcement that History has accepted my article ‘Gender, Authority and the Image of Queenship in English and Scottish Ballads, 1553-1603‘. It’s based on papers I gave to the Mary I Quincentenary Conference in 2016 and the EFDSS Broadside Ballad Day in 2019, and it should appear at the end of…