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  • Teaching witchcraft

    In the run up to Christmas, I taught for four weeks on Liverpool Hope’s second year witchcraft and witch-hunting course.  It was interesting to look into the subject in more depth than we do on the first year survey course, especially as I had lectures to write as well as seminars and tutorials to run.…

  • Over the next hill

    When your wheels are burning up the miles and you’re wearing down shoe leather, When your face is frozen in a smile and the road goes on forever, Forever, forever, the road goes on forever, Over the next hill maybe there’s good weather.” (Steve Tilston) That song seemed to have been specially written for the…

  • 1st January 2018

    1st January 2018. The start of the year when my first book will be published.  And it came as something of a surprise to me to see that Amazon is telling me it will be released on 22 February, as I was expecting it to be March, and what’s more, I am still checking the…

  • Teaching the Twentieth Century

    My portfolio career is such that among my teaching is an introductory module for Liverpool Hope University on twentieth century Europe. This is ‘flipped learning’ course, where the students access recorded lectures and course materials via the course moodle and then attend seminars and tutorials ready to discuss the issues that they’ve come across. Last…