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  • New Starts part 1

    The new academic year is approaching fast and things are changing. While I wait to hear what work I’ve got and where, I’ve been getting on with my own research. Several of my projects are almost at an end, so I need to work out which of my projects to dive into next. There are…

  • Jigs

    A couple of years ago I was sitting in the British Library calling up various documents that might be ballad-related, when I came across John Balshaw’s Jig. What really captured my interest was the fact that Balshaw apparently wrote the piece in Brindle, Lancashire, in 1660. Now Brindle is a little place near Chorley, and…

  • Re-blogged from The Research Whisperer: Stitching together an intellectual life

    Stitching together an intellectual life Stitching together an intellectual life — Read on researchwhisperer.org/2019/08/20/stitching-together-an-intellectual-life/

  • Repost – Una McIlvenna: Getting Emotional…

    Thought I’d just post a link to a really interesting piece by Una McIlvenna, about her experience of finding some previously undocumented ballads while teaching a class in Melbourne. https://www.objectsandemotions.org/blog/getting-emotional-about-handling-a-cache-of-early-modern-print

  • Good news

    Just a quick post to say that an article based on my paper at the Medieval and Renaissance Music Conference in Maynooth last year has been accepted for publication by Renaissance Studies, and that the Musici Trust has given me funding to have some digital images created of different examples of sixteenth century printed music…