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  • Reblogged: on not quitting the doctorate, by Pat Thomson

    Originally posted on patter: We hear a lot these days about people quitting the PhD – they have institutional difficulties, experience appalling discrimination, have serious supervision troubles, struggle with funding. These are dreadful experiences and we do need to hear about them. We also hear quite a lot about how hard the PhD is and…

  • Easter vacation

      With the children on their Easter break, work over the last couple of weeks has been rather hit and miss.  Mainly miss, to be honest.  But I have spent some time working on a short historiographical piece about the relationship between ballads and news, which I’m happy to say is nearly finished.  In the…

  • Fountains Abbey

    We have been enjoying the Easter sunshine with a day out at Fountains  Abbey.  For the first time (I’ve been there many times before) I walked along the one of the top paths to Anne Boleyn’s view, which is apparently so called because a headless statue once stood there!  It was a beautiful day.  …

  • Research Fundermentals: Peer Review & Changing a Lightbulb: a Historian’s View

      Very amusing! Research Fundermentals: Peer Review & Changing a Lightbulb: a Historian’s View.

  • Easter holidays

    This week is the first week of my children’s Easter holiday, so I am juggling childcare with work. Cramming little bits of work into wherever it will fit isn’t easy and it certainly doesn’t allow for extended research or writing, for example. But there are little things that I can do. I went through a…