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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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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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