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…

I’m writing this in late August, while Twitter is alive with posts on what people have accomplished, or not, over the summer, and the guilt they feel or don’t. It’s got me thinking. There were so many things I planned to do this summer: Rewrite and resubmit my Pilgrimage of Grace article. Write and submit…

This is the final post in a short series about my trip to the Medieval and Renaissance Music Conference in Maynooth during July 2018. The final day of the conference dawned bright and clear (again!), so once I’d packed up and checked out of my accommodation, I headed over to the south campus for the…

This is the third in a short series of posts about my trip to the Medieval and Renaissance Music Conference in Maynooth during July 2018. Saturday morning was D-day.  Our panel, on musical prints and misprints, put together by the delightful Samantha Arten.  Anne Heminger was unable to be with us in person, so her…