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First Research Panel
Last week was a busy week. It started with a Spanish listening test (I don’t think I’ve done very well) and finished with my youngest child’s 5th birthday and a party in the garden with family and a few of his friends. Fitted into the middle was my first research panel, which took about 45…
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Images of Mary I
I sent off my first piece of research work to my supervisors today. It’s about the positive representations of Mary I during her reign. A lot of the images that writers use are biblical, and a couple of ballad writers refer to her as the marigold. There is even a ‘godly Psalm’ about her, written…
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Historical Association
Come October, I’m going to be a Trustee of the Historical Association. I stood as a candidate about a month ago, but as there were only a couple of nominations we didn’t have to go to an election. I’m rather looking forward to it.
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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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