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  • Reblogged from Early Modern Female Book Ownership – The Worckes of Thomas Becon (1564)

    by Jake Arthur In the hunt for women’s marginalia, the libraries of one of the oldest colleges in Oxford is not the likeliest port of call. Unlike … The Worckes of Thomas Becon (1564)

  • Book Contract

    It’s been a particularly long week – not really sure why, I just seem to be very tired – but I have had some good news. I seem to have had a contract through for our co-authored Cambridge Elements book on news in early modern Europe. It’s based on the EDPOP panel I gave in…

  • Week 4…

    Today is the end of week 4… I had planned to write a weekly update this term saying what I’d been up to, but as it’s already week 4, that’s clearly not happened. Anyway, I’ve been auditing one of the digital humanities MA course on digital texts, and this morning we were talking about writing…

  • My article for The Conversation – Comparing news of the deaths of Queens Elizabeth I and II

    How news of the death of Elizabeth I in the 17th century was communicated in ballads and proclamations Jenni Hyde, Lancaster University When Queen Elizabeth II passed away on September 8, 2022, there can’t have been many people in the UK who hadn’t heard about it within hours of her death. The media was on high…

  • Whalley Abbey

    By the time you read this, it will be a few weeks ago, but today I made my first ever trip to Whalley Abbey. I’ve been intending to go for several years, ever since I started working on the Pilgrimage of Grace, but I have never made it. To be honest, it wasn’t that I…