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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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Parenting your way to a PhD
So much of this is so true and relevant to those of us juggling a family with a full time PhD workload. The Thesis Whisperer This post is by Susan Stewart Loane, who is a PhD student at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia. Susan left a career as a management consultant when her first child…
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On the move
As I write this, I’m speeding through the countryside on the train to London again for another Historical Association committee meeting. I’m armed with an enormous cup of tea, a book about sound in the early modern world, some paper and my ipod. If the meeting finishes early, I will pop into the British Museum…
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Rosy Rickett @ The Museum of Transport
Another of my PhD colleagues is a Researcher in Residence, so here is a piece by the lovely Rosy Rickett.
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Musical musings part 2.
After last week’s musical musings, I had great fun on Thursday discussing the terminology of sixteenth century music with my music supervisor. I freely admit to butterflies before the meeting, but in a change of insect metaphor, I came out buzzing. I think we have come up with a solution concerning how to talk about…
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Print and Materiality Seminar Series at The John Rylands Library
Originally posted on The History Fox: Print and Materiality Seminar Series at The John Rylands Library It’s a busy week this week as I will also be giving a paper in Manchester on Wednesday (19th) about the domestic object and magic in the childbirth process.
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5 ways to look more clever than you actually are
A very interesting blog post, especially for those who (like me) sometimes suffer from a serious case of imposter syndrome. The Thesis Whisperer Not so long ago I missed my flight back from Sydney to Melbourne. When I realised I was eating dinner instead of being on a plane on the way home to my…
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Tidings of Good News
I was warned on Wednesday that my luck will have to run out eventually. That may not sound too much like good news, but the converse is, of course, that, in order to provoke the comment, things must be going relatively well at the moment. Work on the commonwealth chapter continues, with some quite major…
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