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  • Bolton School 500/100

    ‘An extraordinary item of business’. So the Manchester Courier and Lancashire Advertiser described the decision to amalgamate Bolton Grammar School and the High School for Boys in December 1897. It went on to comment that ‘much will be said before it becomes – if ever – an accomplished fact’. Eighteen months later the first issue…

  • MySpace

    I left Facebook, for a variety of reasons, last autumn and I haven’t really missed it.  But I have just rediscovered my MySpace page.  I had completely forgotten that I’d had it, if I’m honest.  I’ve just spent a while playing with it, but the reason that I wanted to mention it here is that,…

  • Reading Writing About Epitaphs

    Reading Writing About Epitaphs

    it might change the way we think about the early modern epitaph

  • Beginning Life as an ‘Independent Researcher’

    Today I started a new phase of my life: I am officially an independent researcher.  It’s not a role I’d have chosen, if I’m honest, and, so far at least, it’s not one I’m particularly enjoying.  In fact, after one day on the job, I’m finding it incredibly frustrating. My institutional access ran out last…

  • Conference Season

    I seem to have been doing a lot of travelling lately, whizzing up and down the country on the pendolino and tootling across country on local trains.  I am, in the words of Doctor Seuss, a north going zax so frankly the journey through the valley in the Lakes where the west coast mainline and…