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Weekly update
I didn’t do my update last night, so here it is. Yesterday was much more productive. I checked all the records for 1555, which was interesting, if a little on the slow side. In the afteroon I carried on with my secondary reading – I’ve moved on to Megan Matchinske, because it was shorter. I…
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Archers Break
That’s ‘The Archers’ on Radio 4, not an alcoholic drink of some sort, in case you were wondering! The children went back to school yesterday, so I did a bit of work on my John Roberts piece (I think I might have finished it and I’m certainly pleased with my progress) and proofread a couple…
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Christmas update
Well, I did get a couple more days’ work done, which was good. I’ve got lots of potentially interesting records to look at on EEBO when I get chance. I’ve started reading Anne Dillon’s ‘Construction of Martyrdom’ book, which I have to say I’m finding heavy going. It’s very repetitive. I’ve also read some interesting…
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Coming up to Christmas
This week’s most important news is that I’ve managed to order a turkey for Christmas without having to remortgage the house! I also went to four different school Christmas concerts on Wednesday. The children are going rather loopy with excitement. On Tuesday evening I had my Spanish exam, which I sat while recovering from a…
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Spanish exam
Slightly panicking, as I have a Spanish exam in a week and in between I have to fit in my revision around a trip to the dentist, a trip to the doctor, two school plays, doing church flowers, going to church, buying and decorating a Christmas tree, taking children to Brownies, Cubs and choir practice and making…
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Late update
I should have done this on Friday evening, but I forgot, but I’m here now. The trouble is that I can’t entirely remember what I did last week. I’ve handed in my essay on Mary I and the Reformation – I sent it off on Thursday morning. On Friday I did some more work on…
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Mary and the Reformation
I’ve been writing a literature review on Mary and the Reformation, and I handed in my first, rough draft on Monday, which we discussed today. It’s okay. It’s not brilliant, and it’s not right yet, but it’s okay. Although it needs re-jigging and more detail in places, it’s not in need of a complete re-write,…
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This is me, squealing quietly…..
Yesterday I got an email from David, the chair of the Bolton Branch of the HA, to say that he had spoken to Michael Wood after a Merton Dinner on Friday and that he might be able to speak for the branch sometime in the next couple of years. Hence the squeals of excitement. On…
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finally a bit of progress
At last, a week where I feel like I’ve actually got something done. On Monday I knuckled down to actually putting some words down on paper, so I made a start on my review essay. 3000 words to review 20 books/articles isn’t many. When you consider that it has to have some flow, an introduction…
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Visit to London
Yesterday I went to London on the train from Manchester Piccadilly, to go to the Branch Officers’ Meeting of the Historical Association. I got plenty of work done on the train, and even managed to send an email (which was a first for me – sending one from a train, that is!) before the WiFi…
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