This is the third post in a short series about my trip to Utrecht, to the EDPOP conference European Dimensions of Popular Print Culture: A Comparative Approach. The second day of the conference (which was, thankfully, slightly cooler than the first) began with our news panel: News – Intermediality and mobility, coordinated and chaired by…

This is the second in a short series of posts about my trip to Utrecht, to the EDPOP conference: European Dimensions of Popular Print Culture: A Comparative Approach. After the various opening and introductory sessions (which took more than 3 hours), it was time for Session 1: The circulation and materiality of parodic and comic…

This is the first of a short series of posts about my trip to Utrecht, to the EDPOP conference. After my delightful trip to the EDPOP Turku workshop, where my panel prepared its ideas, I was really looking forward to visiting Utrecht for the full conference, European Dimensions of Popular Print Culture: A Comparative Approach. …

The eagle-eyed among you (if indeed anyone other than me ever looks at the list of what I’m reading – they probably don’t!) will have spotted that I’ve been reading some rather unusual books lately.  And a lot of them.  That’s because I was asked to be a judge for the Historical Association’s Young Quills…

At the beginning of May, the North West Early Modern Seminar met at Lancaster University.  In the past there have been two twenty minute papers and several 5 minute presentations which briefly introduced research topics.  This session was different in having 3 twenty minute papers. The first was given by Prof. Naomi Tadmor (Lancaster), on…