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Reblogged: thornhaugh street | Darkest London
Fascinated by this post about a university building in London which apologises for its existence. Perhaps the University of Oxford’s new accommodation blocks could take a stone from its plaque, since they ought to apologise for their ugly presence dominating the skyline of Port Meadow without proper consultation. thornhaugh street | Darkest London.
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“And what are your conclusions so far?”
“And what are your conclusions so far?” I was asked that a couple of weeks ago, and I was slightly taken off guard. It was because I couldn’t immediately come up with an answer that I decided I needed to take stock! I am convinced that the ballad music has more links with…
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Reblogged: on not quitting the doctorate, by Pat Thomson
Originally posted on patter: We hear a lot these days about people quitting the PhD – they have institutional difficulties, experience appalling discrimination, have serious supervision troubles, struggle with funding. These are dreadful experiences and we do need to hear about them. We also hear quite a lot about how hard the PhD is and…
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Fountains Abbey
We have been enjoying the Easter sunshine with a day out at Fountains Abbey. For the first time (I’ve been there many times before) I walked along the one of the top paths to Anne Boleyn’s view, which is apparently so called because a headless statue once stood there! It was a beautiful day. …
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Research Fundermentals: Peer Review & Changing a Lightbulb: a Historian’s View
Very amusing! Research Fundermentals: Peer Review & Changing a Lightbulb: a Historian’s View.
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Quick update
A week of cataloguing ballads, redrafting bits of writing about news, transcribing, trying to define news, staring out the window looking at the birds, thinking and making birthday cakes. Not necessarily in that order. Some progress made, but not a great deal. As yet, I’ve not located a satisfactory definition of sixteenth century news, so…
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A very conservative Renaissance
Originally posted on bonæ litteræ: occasional writing from David Rundle, Renaissance scholar: I am not in the habit of shouting at the television. In part, that is because I am not much of a TV-watcher: until my then partner, now wife, moved in, there was no box in the house. When I do sit in…
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social media – with/against academic writing?
Originally posted on patter: When I go on the road – as I have just done – I always try to take with me a couple of slim volumes that I can dip in and out of. These are not the academic equivalent of airport novels. Rather, they are often books with quite serious philosophical…
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Reader Services – Curious Finds – “Nuns’ Buns”
If you’re out there somewhere, Christina, I hope all is going well! Rylands Blog This Curious Find comes to us from Christina Brindley who is researching images of female piety and the development of post-reformation Catholicism in the Diocese of Chester 1558-1630. Christina discovered an amusing poem written by an unknown English nun in Louvain.…
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Hello Samantha! *waves*
My research would have been impossible without the internet, not just because the digitisation of so many archives allows me to research from home while bringing up my family but also because of the connexions that I manage to make with friends and fellow scholars all over the world. Some of my best friends never…
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