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  • I really can sing…

    Honestly, I can. There aren’t many things in this world that I’m sure of, but that is one of them. Up to now, most of the videos on my YouTube channel have been of Tudor ballads, for the obvious reason that that is what I spend my time working on and my public engagement tends…

  • Happy Birthday RHC!

    This year is the 50th birthday of Lancaster University’s Regional Heritage Centre, an organisation I’m proud to be involved with – I’ve mentored on their excellent FutureLearn MOOC, Lancaster Castle: the View from the Stronghold; I teach on their PGCert course; and of course I published John Balshaw through them a couple of years ago.…

  • New Year

    As I write this, I’m sitting on a train going to London for an HA Historian editorial board meeting. It’s our first in person meeting in 3 years, since the beginning of the covid pandemic. It will be an interesting meeting, where we will be discussing where the magazine will be going over the next…

  • New Office

    I have a new office. This is important, because it marks my transition to my permanent role in the History Department at Lancaster. In early February, I will be handing over the role of Administrator for the Social History Society to my successor so that I can concentrate on my 4-day teaching role but still…