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Getting to know John Balshaw – Part 2
This is the second in a short series of posts on my research into John Balshaw’s Jig. It’s a short ‘musical comedy’ written by a man in Brindle, Lancashire, in the mid-seventeenth century. I found the manuscript in the British Library a couple of years ago, and transcribed it, and I’ve already written a blog…
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Getting to Know John Balshaw – Part 1
This is the first in a short series of posts on my research into John Balshaw’s Jig. It’s a short ‘musical comedy’ written by a man in Brindle, Lancashire, in the mid-seventeenth century. I found the manuscript in the British Library a couple of years ago, and transcribed it, and I’ve already written a blog…
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Working through Lockdown
Since I finished my teaching for this year at Lancaster, I’ve been keeping busy in several ways. For one thing, I’ve taken a more hands on role in home schooling my daughter – so far it’s mainly been English Literature and science, but we’ll start feeding the history and music back in after half term. …
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Social History Society Blog
Back at the beginning of the year I was asked to write a blog post about Singing the News for the Social History Society website. I decided to take the Cromwell ballads as my starting point to think about what songs can tell us about 16th century England. You can read my post here.
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Last seminar…?
On Tuesday morning, I taught my last seminar of the academic year. Yes, I’ve still got a stack of grading to do and various bits of admin, I’ve got a supervision meeting with my doctoral student and a report to write for the impact project based on the Lancaster Castle MOOC, but I’ve taught my…
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Moving to teaching online
Like most of the rest of the education community in this country, I’ve suddenly had to move my teaching online. Fortunately, in my department the decision was made to record the Week 20 lectures and upload them to the Moodle, but to put the Week 20 seminars, tutorials and workshops off until Week 21 (after…
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Working from home
I’m used to working from home. Up until last September, I did it a lot. I’ve never found it particularly difficult to motivate myself, nor fallen prey to the many possible distractions. Even having three children and my other half in the house, I’m pretty good at either ignoring them, or dropping things for a…
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Another article – Gender, Authority and the Image of Queenship
This is just a quick announcement that History has accepted my article ‘Gender, Authority and the Image of Queenship in English and Scottish Ballads, 1553-1603‘. It’s based on papers I gave to the Mary I Quincentenary Conference in 2016 and the EFDSS Broadside Ballad Day in 2019, and it should appear at the end of…
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Mere Claptrap Jumble
So as I was able to announce earlier this week, the article based on my paper to the MedRen Conference in Maynooth in 2018 has appeared in early view on the Renaissance Studies website, although it’s come a long way from that initial idea. The starting point for the article was the earliest printed music…
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