Category: public engagement
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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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Historical Association Conference 2019 Part 4
This is the final entry in a short series of posts about the Historical Association conference, held in Chester in May 2019. After the break, it was time for me to reprise my lecture from the Historical Association’s ‘Teaching the Tudors’ CPD day in York, ‘A History of the Reformation in 5 Ballads’. It was…
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Historical Association Conference 2019 Part 3
This is the third in a short series of posts about the Historical Association conference, held in Chester in May 2019. The opening session on Friday morning was a keynote talk from Dr Fern Riddell called ‘Uncomfortable Histories: From sex to the suffragettes’. Considering that the audience was mainly made up of teachers, Dr Riddell’s…
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Historical Association Conference 2019 Part 2
This is the second in a short series of posts about the Historical Association Conference 2019, held in Chester in May. The first general pathway session that I attended was given by Dr Tim Grady on ‘German Jews, the First World War and its Devastating Aftermath’. Gorlitz War Memorial is illustrative of German Jewish history…
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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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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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2015 and on
The big highlight of 2015 has to have been passing my viva and becoming a doctor. I’m still quite pleased with the way my thesis looks sitting on the shelf, even though I never got it bound (Manchester only requires electronic submission of corrected theses). I like it the way it is. And graduation…
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Ballads Across Borders
Over the last few months I have been privileged to give some lectures for Sovereign Education, who provide study days for A-level students. The two most recent lectures were on the subject of ‘the King’s Great Matter’. Sadly, there were no ballads involved, but at least I got to talk about Henry VIII, Catherine of…
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