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  • 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?

  • European Dimensions of Popular Print Culture (EDPOP)

    Sadly, I can’t make this event at the John Rylands, but I’d be interested to hear all about it. John Rylands Library Special Collections Blog Source: European Dimensions of Popular Print Culture (EDPOP)

  • The Reformation of the People? The View from the Alebench

    The Reformation of the People? The View from the Alebench

    Originally posted on the many-headed monster: Mark Hailwood It’s not every day the Protestant Reformation gets to celebrate its 500th birthday – well, only on one day, really. And it’s no surprise that yesterday’s anniversary of that fateful day when Martin Luther nailed his 95 theses to the church door of Wittenberg – the first…

  • Snowed under

    Just a quick post to say that normal service will be resumed shortly – I’ve got lots of things on my list to write posts about, but I simply haven’t got the time at the moment to write them because I’m busy writing lectures and marking.  Normally I write a stack of posts and schedule…