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  • Academics with chameleons

    I don’t spend a lot of time on Twitter, but I have noticed the hashtag ‘academics with cats’.  Cats are a big thing on Twitter. Personally, I’m not keen on cats – they interfere with the birds and shrews in my garden and leave behind unpleasant deposits that threaten my children’s health.  So I’ve started…

  • Happy Marking Day

    I have a confession to make… I quite enjoy marking. There.  I said it aloud. I know we all moan about marking – grading papers is laborious and can take up a lot of time, especially if you have a lot of students.  But actually, there are several aspects of it that I enjoy.  One…

  • Patricia Fumerton on Moving Media

    At the end of January, I happened to be down in London for a Historical Association committee meeting, so I couldn’t pass up the opportunity to go to the London Renaissance Seminar in order to hear Patricia Fumerton talk about ‘Moving Media, Tactical Publics – The British Broadside Ballad in Early Modern England’. I was…

  • Singing Across the Channel

    In early January, I was privileged to be invited to speak at the singing across the channel workshop at the University of Kent.  I travelled down the morning before the conference, passing through King’s Cross Station on the way.  Now, I must have done that before, but I can’t remember ever noticing the architecture in…

  • Oxford Seminar

    Back in November, I was privileged to be invited  to give a paper at the Oxford University Early Modern Britain Seminar Series.  It was a truly amazing experience, not just to give a paper in such opulent surroundings but also in the questions that were raised about my research – as someone who researches mainly…