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Country Fayre
Today I have been at Bromley Cross Country Fayre, with the Bolton HA branch president, representing the branch. Last year it was really productive, and we talked to lots of people, so we were very enthusiastic about being there again. Unfortunately this year, a stall location in the back of beyond combined with traffic chaos…
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“Mama, tengo un dolor de cabeza…”
In the last week I’ve been working very hard on my Spanish, as I’ve had my end of term Spanish exams. The second written paper was last week, and my last day of revision was kiboshed by my eldest son being sent home from school at 11am having attempted to break the tarmac of the…
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Fighting the snake
The snake fight portion of your thesis defence: http://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/faq-the-snake-fight-portion-of-your-thesis-defense#.T57KGz08pjA.twitter Brilliant! Even my husband enjoyed it!
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Lucy Worsley, children and history
I’ve just read the interview with Lucy Worsley printed in this week’s Radio Times. I should make it clear now that I haven’t, to the best of my knowledge, seen any of her television work. I don’t watch much television, and even less history on television, as it tends to get on my nerves. I…
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Reading, reading and more reading.
This week has been hard. I’m tired. Very tired. If it were just the work, it would be fine, but the added pressure of parenthood is difficult at times, and this was one of them. I’ve been reading (yes, again). Mainly theoretical stuff on monarchical republic and oral culture. A friend pointed out that I…
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Letters
Today I’ve been looking at Cardinal Reginald Pole’s letters. It’s an interesting, European perspective on Mary’s accession. To be honest I’ve not got a great deal done this week. I haven’t been feeling very well, and I suspect that I’ve been overdoing things over Easter trying to keep the children occupied as well as doing…
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Originally posted on The Hoper of Far-Flung Hopes: *BEWARE: long blog post* Yesterday, I put a post on my Twitter feed asking for peoples’ thoughts on self-funding PhDs. I was really staggered by the response I got: 60 tweets on the subject, with a really diverse range of feedback and opinions, some of which hadn’t…
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Mummy is writing a book…
I’ve started telling my children that I’m working. It’s easier. “Mummy is doing a PhD” is completely incomprehensible to an 8 year old, let alone a 6 year old or a 4 year old, so I’ve always told them I was writing a book. But recently I’ve realised that to them, that doesn’t matter, it’s…
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Tudor Iconography
I’ve now finished reading ‘Tudor Royal Iconography’ by John N. King which was interesting and pointed me in the direction of a few different sources. Happily, neither of the two iconography books that I’ve read has used all the source material that I have. I’m about to start reading Alice Hunt’s PhD thesis, and then…
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Easter holidays
Well, at least for the children anyway. Last week I visited the Salford Diocesan Archives in Manchester and the Talbot Library in Preston. They both have an excellent selection of secondary material, including, in the case of the Talbot Library, quite large sections on the religious orders and Mariological works. The Talbot library is housed…
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