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Jigs
A couple of years ago I was sitting in the British Library calling up various documents that might be ballad-related, when I came across John Balshaw’s Jig. What really captured my interest was the fact that Balshaw apparently wrote the piece in Brindle, Lancashire, in 1660. Now Brindle is a little place near Chorley, and…
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Re-blogged from The Research Whisperer: Stitching together an intellectual life
Stitching together an intellectual life Stitching together an intellectual life — Read on researchwhisperer.org/2019/08/20/stitching-together-an-intellectual-life/
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Repost – Una McIlvenna: Getting Emotional…
Thought I’d just post a link to a really interesting piece by Una McIlvenna, about her experience of finding some previously undocumented ballads while teaching a class in Melbourne. https://www.objectsandemotions.org/blog/getting-emotional-about-handling-a-cache-of-early-modern-print
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Good news
Just a quick post to say that an article based on my paper at the Medieval and Renaissance Music Conference in Maynooth last year has been accepted for publication by Renaissance Studies, and that the Musici Trust has given me funding to have some digital images created of different examples of sixteenth century printed music…
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Emotional responses to music
It’s probably a couple of years since I last undertook an online course with FutureLearn, but a few weeks ago I signed up for a short course from Griffith University called Music Psychology: Why Does “Bohemian Rhapsody” Feel so Good? It was a simple introduction to some of the basic principles of music psychology, and…
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From Inside Higher Ed: Study finds female professors experience more work demands
Study finds female professors experience more work demands and special favor requests, particularly from academically “entitled” students. — Read on www.insidehighered.com/news/2018/01/10/study-finds-female-professors-experience-more-work-demands-and-special-favor
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It’s like asking how you are…
…no-one really wants to know the true answer. At least that’s what my fiend said when I told him a few months ago that I’d decided to be honest about my precarity. Well, maybe people don’t, but maybe we should tell them more often. One of the difficult situations that I face when attending conferences…
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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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