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  • Society for Renaissance Studies Conference

    I’ve just spent three days at the Society for Renaissance Studies Conference in Manchester, and very stimulating it was too. It was nice to meet some new people and hear about their work, and a few people I’ve spoken to have been interested in my work and offered to keep in touch. There were some…

  • The Doldrums

    It hasn’t been a particularly good week for research and writing, I must say. The persistent, rainy weather hasn’t helped, and neither has the extra stress caused by the impending house move, but I really lost my way this week. After the writing group, I tried to implement some of the more useful changes they…

  • Originally posted on Avoiding The Bears: In my most recent meeting with my supervisor, he made an observation that I think I’m going to come to regard as fateful. ‘There comes a time in a PhD’, he said, ‘when you have to stop lying’. It wasn’t quite as devastating as that appears. My supervisor has…

  • Under Pressure…

    I’ve not posted for a couple of weeks because I’ve been incredibly busy with life, the universe and everything. We are in the process of moving house, in as much as someone is buying ours and we are buying another, but as there is no chain at either end we need to be ready to…

  • Commenting – a new method in my madness

    This week I’ve been using the comment feature in word to mark up bits of my work that I’d had ideas about, or needed to do a bit more digging on. It was a new idea, brought on in part by a lack of confidence that they way I’d been working, the way I’ve always…