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Academically Homeless
Yesterday I logged in to my Manchester University library account and discovered that I can no longer renew my books. This came as a bit of a surprise. There’s nothing urgent, you understand, it just brought home to me the fact that, slowly and surely, I’m being set adrift in the big, wide world again. …
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Time slip
Having spent the first few days this week putting together junior fellowship and bursary applications, for the last couple of days I’ve been working on John Roberts. Mostly, this has involved a major crisis of confidence and a long time spent re-acquainting myself with the sources that I was using. First I panicked that I…
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A little announcement
Happy to announce that I am now, officially, Dr Hyde.
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Ballads Across Borders
Over the last few months I have been privileged to give some lectures for Sovereign Education, who provide study days for A-level students. The two most recent lectures were on the subject of ‘the King’s Great Matter’. Sadly, there were no ballads involved, but at least I got to talk about Henry VIII, Catherine of…
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How to write a simple research methods section
Originally posted on The Research Whisperer: Photo by Mel Hattie | unsplash.com Yesterday I read a research application that contained no research methods at all. Well, that’s not exactly true. In an eight-page project description, there were exactly three sentences that described the methods. Let’s say it went something like this: There was to be…
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