This is the final post in a short series about the 2024 Historical Association Conference, held in Birmingham in May. The final session of Day 1 was a Roundtable which discussed the value historians can add to contemporary and future issues? Jonathan Phillips opened by suggesting that the main contribution is perspective born of context.…

This is the second in a series of three posts about the Historical Association Conference, held in Birmingham on 10 and 11 May 2024. After lunch on day 1, I went to hear Ann Hughes talk about the role and reputation of Birmingham during the civil wars. She acknowledged that this stage Birmingham was less…

This is the first in a short series of posts about the 2024 Historical Association Conference in Birmingham. I haven’t been to the HA Conference since it was online during COVID, so it was lovely to go back this year. I went down the day before the conference started and spent a few hours looking…

After Easter, I attended three sessions of training on Transkribus, the Handwriting Recognition Software that works a bit like Optical Character Recognition to create automatic transcriptions of manuscripts. This is the last in a series of three posts about the training. Our third session, we started by looking at our own case studies. I started…

This week I escaped the university. I did my teaching on Monday, of course – a two hour workshop on sources related to Luther’s Reformation, as well as an extra lecture on preparing for the exams aimed at our third years, who are taking their first in person Lancaster exams this year. Then on Tuesday…