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How I Spent the Summer…
I’m writing this in late August, while Twitter is alive with posts on what people have accomplished, or not, over the summer, and the guilt they feel or don’t. It’s got me thinking. There were so many things I planned to do this summer: Rewrite and resubmit my Pilgrimage of Grace article. Write and submit…
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MedRen 2018 Part 4
This is the final post in a short series about my trip to the Medieval and Renaissance Music Conference in Maynooth during July 2018. The final day of the conference dawned bright and clear (again!), so once I’d packed up and checked out of my accommodation, I headed over to the south campus for the…
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MedRen 2018 Part 3
This is the third in a short series of posts about my trip to the Medieval and Renaissance Music Conference in Maynooth during July 2018. Saturday morning was D-day. Our panel, on musical prints and misprints, put together by the delightful Samantha Arten. Anne Heminger was unable to be with us in person, so her…
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MedRen 2018 Part 2
This is the second in a short series of posts about my trip to the Medieval and Renaissance Music Conference in Maynooth during July 2018. Friday morning dawned slightly overcast, which was a bit of a relief, as it was very warm! There were fewer things on the schedule that morning that I wanted to…
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Think_Endangered
My daughter has been through a lot this year. In May, she underwent over 10 hours of spinal surgery at Alder Hey Hospital to correct the curves in her spine caused by severe scoliosis. She missed weeks of school and with that, her friends. She has spent a lot of her recovery time with her…
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GCSE Congratulations
I just wanted to write a quick post to congratulate my home-schooled tutoring pupil on her GCSE results. I taught her for two of her subjects: she got a B for iGCSE history and a 9 for iGCSE English Language.
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MedRen 2018 Part 1
This is the first in a short series of posts about my trip to the Medieval and Renaissance Music Conference in Maynooth during July 2018. The Medieval and Renaissance Music Conference, known as MedRen, was a slightly scary undertaking for me. I’ve only been to one music conference before, where I presented a paper on…
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Premodern Reading Group Celebrates Singing the News
Back in June, I was invited to lead the final session of Lancaster University’s Premodern Reading Group (Twitter @lancasterpremod) in a celebration of my first book, Singing the News. We had a fantastic poster: PremodernRG_22ndJune18. We had grapes. We even had cake (although the mind boggles over what the university English Department kitchen is doing with…
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Why Did Charles I Lose His Head?
I’ve been asked to run the history department’s residential summer school for Edge Hill University this year. The topic that I’ve chosen is the Civil War, but with a long view that encompasses 100 years of history. I’ve spent quite a while trying to come up with a blend of activities which will give students…
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Amsterdam
The final post in a short series based on my recent trip to the EDPOP conference in Utrecht. Although this one isn’t about EDPOP itself, it’s about Amsterdam. It seemed a long way to go, not to see anything. As I wasn’t going to be able to fly back to the UK at a reasonable…
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