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  • Teaching the Later Stuarts

    This term, I’m convening a course on the Later Stuarts and the early Hanoverian period. It meant that I had a busy Christmas pulling all the materials together, but I’m pleased with how it’s turned out, and it’s the first time I’ve ever put together a whole module. So far, it seems to be going…

  • Precarity Story: the Blog

    Today, for the first time ever, I am on strike. @LancasterUCU You will not see me on the picket line (at least not yet) because frankly, I’m exhausted. @ucu here’s my #precaritystory On Thursday morning, I posted a series of tweets which look set to be the most-read thing I’ve ever written, or am ever…

  • The End of the Year

    As 2019 draws to a close, I find myself with a lot on which to reflect. There has been much to celebrate: I was invited to speak at a major conference in Spain, I’ve had two articles accepted by important journals, and my teaching continues to go well. I even wrote a blog post about…

  • Mentoring on a MOOC

    Given the number of FutureLearn courses that I’ve undertaken over the last few years, it’s been interesting to spend 5 weeks as a mentor on the Lancaster University/FutureLearn course on Lancaster Castle: The View From the Stronghold. The course takes participants through the region’s history from the Romans to the twentieth century, although obviously in…

  • Soundscapes Workshop Part 2

    Just before the start of the Michaelmas term, I went to the Archiving the Soundscape workshop at the Wellcome Institute, London, organised by the Soundscapes in the Early Modern World project. Day 2 began with a panel which opened with an archaeologist from the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge, Catrina Cooper, who worked on the Virtual…