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Lego ballad singer
Up at Lancaster, I was asked if I could pop something quirky in my office that represents my research. My son made me a lego ballad singer!
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Teaching at Lancaster
Although I’ve been an Honorary Researcher at Lancaster University for a few years, I’ve never done any teaching with them until this term. Between now and Christmas I am teaching on the first year Reform, Rebellion and Reason course as well as the second year Making History Course. What’s more, I’ve got my very own…
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Footnote
At the very end of October, I was very excited to discover what I think is my first ever citation in someone else’s book. My own book, Singing the News, didn’t come out in time to make the note, so the reference is to my PhD thesis, but I’m still feeling very proud of myself. …
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“Come and Hear Why the Renaissance Happened!”
During the summer, we spent a week on the Isle of Wight. Our visit to Carisbrook Castle was livened up by the sound of music floating through the grounds. It was provided by Blast from the Past, Chris Green and Sophie Matthews, who advertised one of their performances with a rather self-deprecating call of ‘Come…
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Carisbrooke Castle
During the summer, we went to the Isle of Wight on holiday. This time, we visited Carisbrooke Castle, where Charles I was imprisoned after the Civil War. It was, perhaps, the perfect time for me to visit, since I spent several days earlier in the summer running a summer school for Edge Hill University on…
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New course at Hope
By the time you read this, I’ll be part-way through teaching my very own course for the first time (Edge Hill summer school excepted). It’s exciting, but also a bit nerve-wracking, especially since I didn’t have very long to pull it together. It’s an 8 week module on The Making of Modern Britain for an…
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More Work on the Pilgrimage of Grace
I have spent much of the summer wrestling with a conundrum, which I still haven’t solved. As regular readers will know, I have been working on the Pilgrimage of Grace. I submitted my article to a peer-reviewed journal and at the beginning of summer, I got word back that they had decided not to publish…
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Trip to London
A couple of weeks ago I went down to London for a few days, killing several birds with one stone. The main purpose of the visit was to go to a meeting of the Historical Association Branches and Members Committee, but I went down two days early so that I could get some work done…
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Reading up on role play
I’m going to make a confession: I’m not particularly good at role play. I was never very good at taking part in them, and experience of trying to use them in the classroom has usually left me slightly disappointed. There have been two exceptions to this. The mock trial of Charles I with the summer…
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The day I nearly be-headed the department…
It was great fun to teach on the Edge Hill Summer Residential this year. It’s aimed at students between years 12 and 13 who are thinking of applying to do history at university (it’s one strand of a wider programme of summer residdentials for different subjects). There were two and half days of academic input,…
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