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  • A Change is as Good as a Rest?

    This week has been rather different to normal.  Foolishly, at 8am on Monday morning I was at Preston station in the hope of travelling to London, but the storm rather got  in the way.  Instead of arriving in London at 10, it was lunchtime when I got there, so I missed a few hours’ work…

  • The Way Through the Woods

    Yesterday I met my supervisors to Discuss the Chapter.  I took a list of questions and comments, a piece of work on some manuscript miscellanies that I’ve been studying and some examples of ballads that fitted some of the categories I’d been working on.  Between us, I think we’ve managed to find an approach that…

  • Registration is now open for the workshop on 1st November

    Originally posted on History Lab North West: The programme has now been finalised for our workshop at the University of Manchester on Friday 1st November.  It’s free to attend and lunch and refreshments will be provided.  If you’d like to come along, just email us at historylab.northwest@hotmail.com to register. We hope to see you there!…

  • Having ‘the chat’ with your supervisor: what I talk about when I talk about depression.

    Considering the state I’ve been in over the last few weeks, this seemed apposite…

  • The Bog – Part 2

    You may  have noticed that there wasn’t a blog post on Friday evening.  Nor was there one the Friday before.  There reason was that I didn’t feel like it; I didn’t want to acknowledge in public that I’m still stuck in the bog, probably waist rather than ankle-deep now.  In fact, if truth be told,…