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  • Reblogged from BBC News – Fylde Guitars’ Roger Bucknall looks back at 40 years of acoustic adventures

    I am lucky enough to own one of Roger’s custom-made models (though it wasn’t custom-made for me!).  It will always be one of my most treasured possessions.  Beautiful to look at; beautiful to hold; beautiful to listen to; beautiful to play. BBC News – Fylde Guitars’ Roger Bucknall looks back at 40 years of acoustic…

  • Christmas 2013

    I’ve been rather unpredictable in my blog posts lately, mainly because I used to write them on Friday evenings as a review of what I’d done during the ‘normal working week’ (Show me a scholar who works a normal working week?  No? No, me neither…), but since the summer the whole family has been going…

  • ▶ Reno erat Rudolphus by eyolfos

    ▶ Reno erat Rudolphus by eyolfos. I will get back to my blog properly by the end of the week, I promise.  But in the meantime, this appealed to my sense of fun.  The strangest stuff turns up on Facebook.  Earlier in the week one of my friends posted a video of a group of…

  • A winter’s tale

    I’ve been trying to fight off this cold for nearly two weeks, but it’s finally floored me.  I’ve been given antibiotics for an upper respiratory tract infection, having spent yesterday shivering under two duvets.  On Tuesday I finally submitted my epitaph ballad article, so fingers crossed.  I’m pleased with it, but I’m under no illusions…

  • The North West Early Modern Seminar at Lancaster University

    Originally posted on North West Early Modern Seminar: Our 5 minute “speed-daters”. From left to right: Naomi Tadmor who chaired the event, Michael Smith (University of Manchester), Sarah Ann Robin (Lancaster University), Naya Tsentourou (Lancaster University), Stephen Pumfrey (Lancaster University) and Helen Davies (Lancaster University).   Jennifer Hyde, (University of Manchester), delivering her paper ‘Kowingness…