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  • Parenting your way to a PhD

    So much of this is so true and relevant to those of us juggling a family with a full time PhD workload. The Thesis Whisperer This post is by Susan Stewart Loane, who is a PhD student at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia.  Susan left a career as a management consultant when her first child…

  • On the move

    As I write this, I’m speeding through the countryside on the train to London again for another Historical Association committee meeting. I’m armed with an enormous cup of tea, a book about sound in the early modern world, some paper and my ipod. If the meeting finishes early, I will pop into the British Museum…

  • Rosy Rickett @ The Museum of Transport

    Rosy Rickett @ The Museum of Transport

    Another of my PhD colleagues is a Researcher in Residence, so here is a piece by the lovely Rosy Rickett.

  • Musical musings part 2.

    After last week’s musical musings, I had great fun on Thursday discussing the terminology of sixteenth century music with my music supervisor. I freely admit to butterflies before the meeting, but in a change of insect metaphor, I came out buzzing. I think we have come up with a solution concerning how to talk about…

  • Lyndal Roper and news

    I’ve spent a lot of time in the company of Luther in the last few days, courtesy of Professor Lyndal Roper and Manchester’s Dr Jenny Spinks.  Prof Roper’s seminar on Thursday evening described Luther’s polemical writing as an expression of his masculinity, but surprised many of the audience with his scatology and lewdness.  On Friday…