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Historical Association Conference 2024 part 2
This is the second in a series of three posts about the Historical Association Conference, held in Birmingham on 10 and 11 May 2024. After lunch on day 1, I went to hear Ann Hughes talk about the role and reputation of Birmingham during the civil wars. She acknowledged that this stage Birmingham was less…
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Historical Association Conference 2024 part 1
This is the first in a short series of posts about the 2024 Historical Association Conference in Birmingham. I haven’t been to the HA Conference since it was online during COVID, so it was lovely to go back this year. I went down the day before the conference started and spent a few hours looking…
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Transkribus Training 3
After Easter, I attended three sessions of training on Transkribus, the Handwriting Recognition Software that works a bit like Optical Character Recognition to create automatic transcriptions of manuscripts. This is the last in a series of three posts about the training. Our third session, we started by looking at our own case studies. I started…
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Trip to Oxford
This week I escaped the university. I did my teaching on Monday, of course – a two hour workshop on sources related to Luther’s Reformation, as well as an extra lecture on preparing for the exams aimed at our third years, who are taking their first in person Lancaster exams this year. Then on Tuesday…
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Transkribus Training 2
After Easter, I attended three sessions of training on Transkribus, the Handwriting Recognition Software that works a bit like Optical Character Recognition to create automatic transcriptions of manuscripts. This is the second in a series of three posts about the training. The second session was a bit different. Before going into further information about how…
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Transkribus Training
After Easter, I attended three sessions of training on Transkribus, the Handwriting Recognition Software that works a bit like Optical Character Recognition to create automatic transcriptions of manuscripts. This is the first in a series of three posts about the training. The first session was a bit of an epic – 4 hours of training…
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Week 6 Down
We’re over the hump. Week 6 was, in the words of our excellent part 2 administrator, the week that was trying to kill me. In an already crowded teaching timetable, I had an extra six hours of teaching. This was self-inflicted. Another way of looking at it is that I am a victim of my…
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Teaching for 2023-24
I’ve just found out what I’m teaching next year, and it’s quite a change from previous years. Of course, I’m going to be teaching my new Crisis and Continuity Course at Part II (second and third year), and I’m still teaching Hist401, the MA Core Course, to the students on campus. This means that my…
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John Balshaw’s Jigge: a Live Performance – the Brindle performance
On Saturday 17 June 2023, I led a cast of students and professionals to put on the world premiere of John Balshaw’s Jigge in Brindle, where it was first written around 350 years ago. It was a fantastic experience for all concerned, and I’m pleased to say that the audience seemed to enjoy it as…
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New Role with the Social History Society
Long time readers of this blog will know that for a couple of years I was the administrator for the Social History Society. The role is run as a postdoctoral position out of the History Department at Lancaster University and helps to keep a newly-minted PhD in academia while they try to get an academic…
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