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Teaching witchcraft
In the run up to Christmas, I taught for four weeks on Liverpool Hope’s second year witchcraft and witch-hunting course. It was interesting to look into the subject in more depth than we do on the first year survey course, especially as I had lectures to write as well as seminars and tutorials to run.…
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1st January 2018
1st January 2018. The start of the year when my first book will be published. And it came as something of a surprise to me to see that Amazon is telling me it will be released on 22 February, as I was expecting it to be March, and what’s more, I am still checking the…
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Singing the News at Ewecross
I was delighted earlier this year to be asked to give my talk on Singing the News in mid-Tudor England at Ewecross Historical Society which meets in High Bentham on the top edge of the Forest of Bowland (being a forest, there’s no direct route there from here, so it’s actually about an hour’s journey…
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Archive work in the British Library – the way I work
At the end of September I went down to London to hear a paper by Chris Marsh at the Royal Historical Society, so I took the opportunity to travel down a bit ahead of time and spend the afternoon in the British Library. This is something I haven’t done for a couple of years, for…
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Pilgrimage of Grace
The end of the summer brought quite a few productive weeks, if I do say so myself. While I was waiting for various things to do with the book manuscript to come together, I was also working on my Pilgrimage of Grace article. It looks at a cluster of references to ballads and rhymes in…
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Reblogged from Katherine Butler – The Earliest Surviving Song in Praise of Queen Elizabeth I?
Came across this interesting ballad post while I was looking for something else. Source: The Earliest Surviving Song in Praise of Queen Elizabeth I?
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European Dimensions of Popular Print Culture (EDPOP)
Sadly, I can’t make this event at the John Rylands, but I’d be interested to hear all about it. John Rylands Library Special Collections Blog Source: European Dimensions of Popular Print Culture (EDPOP)
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The Reformation of the People? The View from the Alebench
Originally posted on the many-headed monster: Mark Hailwood It’s not every day the Protestant Reformation gets to celebrate its 500th birthday – well, only on one day, really. And it’s no surprise that yesterday’s anniversary of that fateful day when Martin Luther nailed his 95 theses to the church door of Wittenberg – the first…
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Snowed under
Just a quick post to say that normal service will be resumed shortly – I’ve got lots of things on my list to write posts about, but I simply haven’t got the time at the moment to write them because I’m busy writing lectures and marking. Normally I write a stack of posts and schedule…
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A night to remember
I’m singing ballads at this event in Manchester. Rylands Blog The 31st October is a date which you might notice in the diary – perhaps an evening you mark with a ghoulish costume, or by taking the children trick or treating, or even staying in and watching a film that makes you want to hide…
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