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Blended Learning Course Weeks 1 & 2
Earlier in the year, I undertook an course on teaching foreign languages to dyslexic students with FutureLearn and the University of Lancaster. Although I don’t teach foreign languages, of course, I do teach dyslexic students and indeed one of my children is severely dyslexic. It gave me some really useful insights into supporting all students…
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‘And though that shee be dead and gone’ – the VERY late Ladie Marquess
In my final blog post on William Elderton’s A proper new balad of my ladie marques, Whose death is bewailed To the tune of new lusty gallant, I’d like to look at possible reasons why the ballad wasn’t published until well after the marchioness’s death: Although the ballad appeared in the Stationers’ Registers of 1569,…
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Ghost Beliefs
William Elderton’s A proper new balad of my ladie marques, Whose death is bewailed To the tune of new lusty gallant features an apparition: Elderton says ‘Me thinkes I see her walke in blacke, / In euery corner where I goe’. But Elderton is conflicted. Visions of the deceased marchioness appear in his mind’s eye,…
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Multiple Audiences
Although ostensibly an epitaph, William Elderton’s A proper new balad of my ladie marques, Whose death is bewailed To the tune of new lusty gallant is in reality a curious mix which speaks to various audiences on several levels. The first was a general listenership who might be edified by ideals of piety and entertained…
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The Lady Marques in Context
William Elderton’s A proper new balad of my ladie marques, Whose death is bewailed To the tune of new lusty gallant was not the only eulogy published in 1569. Thomas Newton penned a steadfastly Protestant panegyric to Lady Katherine Knollys. Katherine, who may have been the illegitimate daughter of Henry VIII, was also a confidante…
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Ballads, burnings and the British Academy
If the blog has been a little bit quiet lately, it’s not just because of the teaching. It’s also because I’ve been trying to set aside a couple of days each week to work on the book. This task was interrupted at the end of January by the news that the application that I made…
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Drums, Bugles, and Bagpipes in the Seven Years’ War
Daniel Laxer Historians tend to overlook the role of musical instruments in the Seven Years’ War. Few devote much attention to explaining how armies operated or battles played-out. Fred Anderson’s … Source: Drums, Bugles, and Bagpipes in the Seven Years’ War
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Teaching
Yesterday, I picked up my first payslip for many years. It’s one of the reasons that the blog has been so quiet over the last few months. I started teaching a few hours a week at Liverpool Hope University at the end of January and now I’m into the swing of it, I’m really enjoying…
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Publishing Ballads in Mid-Tudor England
Over the last few weeks I’ve been investigating the publication of ballads in mid-Tudor England, looking at the Stationers’ Registers in detail. It’s been really interesting to look at which publishers specialised in ballads. It’s also shown that there were some printers who only printed occasionally, and when they did, they printed ballads. I went…
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New IHR project on the history of London
News has just reached me via Twitter of a fascinating project hosted by the IHR: http://londonist.com/2016/01/layers-of-london-londons-new-mapping-project
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