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  • Musical musings

    Last week, during my panel meeting, one of my supervisors pointed out that my use of the phrase ‘based on the tonic, sub-dominant and dominant chords’ to describe a seventeenth-century tune was anachronistic, but conceded that finding terms to describe Renaissance music was difficult. We arranged to discuss it further next week, but in the…

  • Bethan Foulkes @ the People’s History Museum | Researchers in Residence

    Blog post by my friend and Manchester PhD colleague, Bethan Foulkes, on her work with the Researchers in Residence Project. Bethan Foulkes @ the People’s History Museum | Researchers in Residence.

  • How I turned into the woman who can stare at a single word for half an hour…

    …wondering if it is exactly the right one to use in that particular place and if there is any way possible in which it could be misunderstood. I love words.  I love the way there is always a perfect word no matter what you want to say, if you can only find it.  But one…

  • Panel and Paper

      This week has been half term, so I’ve spent quite a bit of time playing with my children.  We’ve been on a couple of walks, one round Tarn Hows in the Lake District and one from Wrea Green on the Fylde, close to where I grew up.  But this has also been the week…

  • Print and Materiality Seminar Series at The John Rylands Library

    Originally posted on The History Fox: Print and Materiality Seminar Series at The John Rylands Library It’s a busy week this week as I will also be giving a paper in Manchester on Wednesday (19th) about the domestic object and magic in the childbirth process.