By the time you read this, I’ll be part-way through teaching my very own course for the first time (Edge Hill summer school excepted).  It’s exciting, but also a bit nerve-wracking, especially since I didn’t have very long to pull it together. It’s an 8 week module on The Making of Modern Britain for an…

I have spent much of the summer wrestling with a conundrum, which I still haven’t solved.  As regular readers will know, I have been working on the Pilgrimage of Grace.  I submitted my article to a peer-reviewed journal and at the beginning of summer, I got word back that they had decided not to publish…

A couple of weeks ago I went down to London for a few days, killing several birds with one stone.  The main purpose of the visit was to go to a meeting of the Historical Association Branches and Members Committee, but I went down two days early so that I could get some work done…

I’m going to make a confession: I’m not particularly good at role play. I was never very good at taking part in them, and experience of trying to use them in the classroom has usually left me slightly disappointed. There have been two exceptions to this.  The mock trial of Charles I with the summer…