Yesterday, I picked up my first payslip for many years.  It’s one of the reasons that the blog has been so quiet over the last few months.  I started teaching a few hours a week at Liverpool Hope University at the end of January and now I’m into the swing of it, I’m really enjoying…

Over the last few weeks I’ve been investigating the publication of ballads in mid-Tudor England, looking at the Stationers’ Registers  in detail. It’s been really interesting to look at which publishers specialised in ballads. It’s also shown that there were some printers who only printed occasionally, and when they did, they printed ballads.  I went…

News has just reached me via Twitter of a fascinating project hosted by the IHR: http://londonist.com/2016/01/layers-of-london-londons-new-mapping-project

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2015 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: A San Francisco cable car holds 60 people. This blog was viewed about 1,000 times in 2015. If it were a cable car, it would take about 17 trips to carry that many people. Click here to see the…