After Easter, I attended three sessions of training on Transkribus, the Handwriting Recognition Software that works a bit like Optical Character Recognition to create automatic transcriptions of manuscripts. This is the first in a series of three posts about the training. The first session was a bit of an epic – 4 hours of training…

We’re over the hump. Week 6 was, in the words of our excellent part 2 administrator, the week that was trying to kill me. In an already crowded teaching timetable, I had an extra six hours of teaching. This was self-inflicted. Another way of looking at it is that I am a victim of my…

I’ve just found out what I’m teaching next year, and it’s quite a change from previous years. Of course, I’m going to be teaching my new Crisis and Continuity Course at Part II (second and third year), and I’m still teaching Hist401, the MA Core Course, to the students on campus. This means that my…

On Saturday 17 June 2023, I led a cast of students and professionals to put on the world premiere of John Balshaw’s Jigge in Brindle, where it was first written around 350 years ago. It was a fantastic experience for all concerned, and I’m pleased to say that the audience seemed to enjoy it as…