Category: ballads
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Sawley Abbey and the Pilgrimage of Grace
It’s been an interesting week for my Pilgrimage of Grace project, despite not having done any work on the book itself. Last week, my friend Kate and I visited Sawley Abbey in the November drizzle. Like my visit to Whalley Abbey earlier in the year, it was really quite evocative, with clouds rolling across Pendle…
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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…
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EFDSS Broadside Day Part 1
At the end of February, I travelled up to Glasgow to speak at the English Folk Dance and Song Society’s Broadside Day at the Unviersity of Strathclyde. This is the first in a short series of posts about the day. Due to a series of unfortunate cricumstances, I didn’t reach Glasgow until 11am, so I…
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Performing Reformation Ballads in Manchester
The end of October was very busy, what with several Historical Association meetings in London as well as two public engagements. The first of these was a speaking engagement at Ewecross, but the second was something a bit different – a 45 minute performance of Tudor ballads at the John Rylands Library event to commemorate…
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Singing the News at Ewecross
I was delighted earlier this year to be asked to give my talk on Singing the News in mid-Tudor England at Ewecross Historical Society which meets in High Bentham on the top edge of the Forest of Bowland (being a forest, there’s no direct route there from here, so it’s actually about an hour’s journey…
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Chris Marsh on Gender Roles in Popular Ballads
At the end of September I killed several birds with one stone by taking a short trip to London. As well as attending a Historical Association committee meeting, I spent an afternoon in the British Library and an evening at the Royal Historical Society lecture given by Professor Christopher Marsh, ‘The woman to the plow…
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Back to the book
Since my children returned to school the push has been on to complete the final stages of my book manuscript. It’s due to go to the publisher at the end of September, so I’ve been doing all the tedious things that come with completion. Things like making sure all the images that I am using…
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Patricia Fumerton on Moving Media
At the end of January, I happened to be down in London for a Historical Association committee meeting, so I couldn’t pass up the opportunity to go to the London Renaissance Seminar in order to hear Patricia Fumerton talk about ‘Moving Media, Tactical Publics – The British Broadside Ballad in Early Modern England’. I was…
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November news
Last Friday saw the publication of my first full length, peer-reviewed article, Verse Epitaphs and the Memorialisation of Women in Reformation England, commissioned by Liz Oakley-Brown when she was editor of the Renaissance section of Literature Compass. I’m happy to say that it comes with its own teaching and learning guide, as well as supporting…
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Video, eo, eo
Sorry for the naff title, which I nabbed from a song from my all-time favourite film, but over the last couple of days video seems to have been one of the twin centres of my life. On Friday, I will speak at the Mary I conference in London the conference, but I won’t actually be…
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