Category: seminars
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North West Early Modern Seminar in Liverpool
I recently attended the latest meeting of the North West Early Modern Seminar Series, which was held at Liverpool University on 1 November. It came at the end of a particularly busy few days for me, so I was really quite tired, but happily there was lovely homemade spiced apple cake from Elaine Chalus and…
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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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Embodiment and New Materialism Part 2
Over the weekend of 25-26 February 2017, I attended a conference in Lancaster which looked at new materialist approaches to the pre-modern period: ‘Embodiment and New Materialism in Premodern Literature and Culture 1350-1700’. Having already blogged about the first day of the conference, I thought it was time to share my recollections of the second.…
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Embodiment and New Materialism Part 1
Over the weekend of 25-26 February 2017, I attended a conference in Lancaster which looked at new materialist approaches to the pre-modern period: ‘Embodiment and New Materialism in Premodern Literature and Culture 1350-1700’. The first day of the conference was held in the lovely city of Lancaster itself, at Lancaster Castle and the Storey Institute.…
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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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2015: Happy New Year
New Year’s Day, and I am back at my desk for the first time in several months, mainly in a late attempt to put together a panel for the Reading Early Modern Studies conference in July, for which the call for papers closes very soon. It’s galvanised me into thinking properly about ballads again for…
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Easter vacation
With the children on their Easter break, work over the last couple of weeks has been rather hit and miss. Mainly miss, to be honest. But I have spent some time working on a short historiographical piece about the relationship between ballads and news, which I’m happy to say is nearly finished. In the…
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