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Update
This could be a very long post! Things have been very stressful lately, not only because of the PhD work but a number of other domestic issues have been getting in the way of things. I hope that now they’ve all been sorted out and that I’ve heard the last of them… Anyway, recently I’ve…
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Temporary delays
“Be fast and firme to freinde, as thou wouldest him to be; Be shamefast ther wher shamfull dedes be offered vnto the. In place thy maners shewe, in right and comly wyse; From the let peace and quietnesse, and wars from others, ryse” Sorry for the lack of posts lately. I hope that normal service…
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London here I come!
I’ve spent quite a bit of time in the last couple of weeks planning my trip to London. I’ve made arrangements to go to the British Library, the Society of Antiquaries and the Vaughan Williams Memorial Library, and although I’m a bit nervous (I’ve never done anything like this before), I’m also very excited. This…
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Turn of the Seasons
Hard to believe a whole year has gone round since I started this. This week, it has definitely turned to autumn. There’s a chill in the air, the leaves are turning and falling from the trees and for the first time ever, my children were able to go conkering on Thursday morning before school –…
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Musings on Supervision
It’s nice to be able to sit out in the garden blogging in October. I’m not even wearing a jumper! We now have an enormous number of birdfeeders, which my husband is busy cleaning while I sit here typing. As well as the usual array of tits, sparrows and golfinches, we have a siskin, a…
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Originally posted on Sophie Coulombeau: Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness! It’s that time of year again. The air is crisp, the leaves are falling and York is suddenly thronged with freshers, both undergrads and postgrads – some bright-eyed and bushy-tailed, others clearly already suffering from the first of many appalling hangovers. I arrived here…
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My week
This week has been an interesting mix. On Monday I sent my article to my supervisor, and I searched all sorts of new source material on EEBO. Well, when I say new, obviously I mean 450 years old, but neverthless, most of them are new to me. So I have a long list of downloaded…
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Sleepy week
I don’t know if it’s an after-effect of moving house, but I’ve been very lethargic this week. I’ve done a lot of reading, most of which was on queenship. At the moment I’m part way through J.L. Laynesmith’s monograph on ‘The Last Medieval Queens’, which I’m reading to give me background on the expected duties…
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Bookends
A friend at university shared this article on Facebook: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/sep/07/bookshelf-say-about-you although she pointed out that it doesn’t take into account the way people own things that they want people to think that they’ve read. Anyway, it got me thinking about my own bookshelf. Or rather, bookshelves. Offhand, I can think of 3 bookcases and 3…
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The second best news of the year
Anyone who has been following this blog for a while, or who has bothered to go back and look through my archive, will know that this time last year, things weren’t really going according to plan. I arrived in Manchester to discover that my supervisor was on medical leave, and the university had to find…
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