Category: Historical research
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A Little Bit Excited
I’m about to go and meet a friend for coffee (well, in my case, tea) to discuss trying to put together a pnael for the EMREM symposium on Birth, Sex and Death (http://emremforum.wordpress.com/). I have no idea if I’ll even be able to get a babysitter to let me get to the conference, but the fact…
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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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Panel 3
I was a bag of nerves on Tuesday evening, ahead of my panel meeting on Wednesday morning, as those who saw me that evening could testify. I go giggly when I’m nervous, and it makes people who don’t know me think I’m not taking things seriously, which is not the case. Terror doesn’t quite have…
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Floundering…
It’s always like this at the start of a new piece of work. The floundering. I’m starting to investigate the music, and I have spent the last day or two looking at modal theory, finding out about hexachords, looking in to the life and times of Archbishop Matthew Parker and playing with ballad tunes. I’ve…
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Panel Preparations
So next week I have my 3rd panel meeting. I’ve just finished the work for it and it’s all ready to go to my supervisors in the morning. Tomorrow it’s on to the music! I’ll be very glad to get back to some research after all the methology and planning.
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Friday night is blogging night.
With sincere apologies to BBC Radio 2, because that really was a terrible title. The thing is, I’m running out of novel and interesting ways to describe similar weeks! I have spent much of this week reading and writing about historical and literary theory – the likes of Jauss, Bourdieu, Skinner, Thompson and Fish. This…
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Theoretically speaking
It’s been quite a week. First of all I had two days at home looking after my sick little boy. Then on Wednesday I went into Manchester to have a supervision meeting. I spent most of the day reading and managed to catch up with a few of my friends, which was nice because I…
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Best laid plans
Having made some very clear plans for my work this week, they were scuppered by my youngest who was up all night on Sunday being sick. He’s been off school for two days, so in the two days I’ve had so far this week, I’ve read 7 ballads and tinkered with my chapter plan, and…
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Splurge
I’ve spent a considerable proportion of the week splurging my second chapter. Second only in the sense of the second one that I’ve written, not that it will necessarily be the second one in the thesis. It feels good to have a bit more of it on paper, even if it isn’t really even a…
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Welcome to 2013
And so a new year begins. I have spent a lot of it so far cataloguing ballads, to the extent that my analysis spreadsheet is now so enormous that I am probably going to have to take it to the university print services department to get it printed out – I guess it will be…
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