Category: Historical Association
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Redrafting
This week I’ve been working from home again. I’ve redrafted my chapter on ballad music ready for my panel meeting and redrafted my article, although I’m not certain where I’m going to send it to. Between them, they have taken me all week. I’m going to proofread them tomorrow, as I think it’s more or…
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Panic!
Almost. Not quite. Well, perhaps sometimes. It comes over me in waves, usually on a Saturday or Sunday. This weekend it was Sunday, today, that the enormity of trying to perfect my chapter before my panel meeting. Now, if I only had to perfect my chapter in time for my panel meeting, things might be…
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Photographs from the Historical Association Awards Evening
Originally posted on Historical Association Bolton Branch: Historical Association Fellows 2013, with Medlicott Medal winner Professor Sir David Cannadine, H.A.President Professor Jackie Eales and H.A. Chief Executive Rebecca Sullivan. The 2013 Honorary Fellows Bolton Branch Vice President Dr Glyn Redworth receives his Honorary Fellowship from Association President Prof. Jackie Eales. Honorary Fellow Dr Glyn…
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Quick update
A short post, because I probably won’t have time to write one later. This week I have worked mainly on one particular ballad, writing a short article about it that I hope to submit for publication fairly soon. It turned out to be something of a double-edged sword, as there is more to it than…
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Branch Vice President Receives H.A. Fellowship
Originally posted on Historical Association Bolton Branch: Bolton Branch Vice President, Dr Glyn Redworth The Bolton Branch is pleased to announce that our Vice President, Dr Glyn Redworth, has been made an Honorary Fellow of the Historical Association. Dr Redworth provided some of the first Historical Association podcasts on Golden Age Spain and is a…
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Historical Association Receives Support From Historians
http://www.history.org.uk/news/news_1790.html Publication date: Tuesday 14th May 2013 Thank you from the President of the HA In response to a speech by Michael Gove on 9th May 2013, the following letter from 54 historians was published in The Times on 14th May 2013. As President of the Historical Association, I would like to thank the signatories…
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The HA Response to Michael Gove’s Attack
Publication date: Friday 10th May 2013 Cartoons and Mr Men On the morning of Thursday 9th May the Secretary of State for Education delivered a speech at Brighton College entitled “What does it mean to be an educated person?” The focus of the speech is a criticism of those who have opposed his department’s proposals…
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A new one on me…
As I write this (a day late – yes, I know), I have just passed through Stafford on the Pendolino, on my way back from London, where I attended the Historical Association’s Branches and Members Committee Meeting. It’s going dark outside the windows, and in the last quarter of an hour I’ve been watching lights…
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Historical Association lecture
Yesterday it was my great pleasure to give my first talk to a branch of the Historical Association in Manchester. Called ‘No Lion Wilde, a Lion Tame – Popular Depictions of Mary I’, it was based the research I did for my first chapter on the ballads of the reign of Mary Tudor. The…
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