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  • The way we work

    I was   I was fascinated by this series of posts on Twitter by Bradley Irish…  It’s true, I think.  I was reminded of some interviews done by the Marine Lives project last year which looked at the way historians carry out research using electronic databases.  I wrote a short blog post at the time,…

  • North West Early Modern Seminar in Liverpool

    I recently attended the latest meeting of the North West Early Modern Seminar Series, which was held at Liverpool University on 1 November.  It came at the end of a particularly busy few days for me, so I was really quite tired, but happily there was lovely homemade spiced apple cake from Elaine Chalus and…

  • Chris Marsh on Gender Roles in Popular Ballads

    At the end of September I killed several birds with one stone by taking a short trip to London.  As well as attending a Historical Association committee meeting, I spent an afternoon in the British Library and an evening at the Royal Historical Society lecture given by Professor Christopher Marsh, ‘The woman to the plow…

  • Pilgrimage of Grace

    The end of the summer brought quite a few productive weeks, if I do say so myself.  While I was waiting for various things to do with the book manuscript to come together, I was also working on my Pilgrimage of Grace article.  It looks at a cluster of references to ballads and rhymes in…

  • Reblogged from Katherine Butler – The Earliest Surviving Song in Praise of Queen Elizabeth I?

    Came across this interesting ballad post while I was looking for something else. Source: The Earliest Surviving Song in Praise of Queen Elizabeth I?