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EBBA Anniversary Conference Part 2
When I posted my first blog about the EBBA Anniversary Conference I didn’t anticipate such a long delay between first and the second, but I guess that sometimes life just gets in the way. Anyway, here is my second post about my first ever trip to the States, of which I have some very fond…
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EBBA Anniversary Conference Part 1
It’s difficult to believe, but this time last week I had just arrived in Santa Barbara for my first ever visit to the USA. I flew into LAX and caught the airbus shuttle up the coast. As we came out of LA, the heavens opened on a hailstorm, followed by a beautiful, vivid rainbow. It…
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Recording the Jigge
Over the last couple of days, preparations for the performance of John Balshaw’s Jigge in Brindle in June have really begun to get underway. I’ve printed out a stack of rehearsal scripts, and had a chat with the director. We went down to visit the community hall a few weeks ago and thought about how…
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I really can sing…
Honestly, I can. There aren’t many things in this world that I’m sure of, but that is one of them. Up to now, most of the videos on my YouTube channel have been of Tudor ballads, for the obvious reason that that is what I spend my time working on and my public engagement tends…
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Happy Birthday RHC!
This year is the 50th birthday of Lancaster University’s Regional Heritage Centre, an organisation I’m proud to be involved with – I’ve mentored on their excellent FutureLearn MOOC, Lancaster Castle: the View from the Stronghold; I teach on their PGCert course; and of course I published John Balshaw through them a couple of years ago.…
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New Year
As I write this, I’m sitting on a train going to London for an HA Historian editorial board meeting. It’s our first in person meeting in 3 years, since the beginning of the covid pandemic. It will be an interesting meeting, where we will be discussing where the magazine will be going over the next…
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New Office
I have a new office. This is important, because it marks my transition to my permanent role in the History Department at Lancaster. In early February, I will be handing over the role of Administrator for the Social History Society to my successor so that I can concentrate on my 4-day teaching role but still…
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Sawley Abbey and the Pilgrimage of Grace
It’s been an interesting week for my Pilgrimage of Grace project, despite not having done any work on the book itself. Last week, my friend Kate and I visited Sawley Abbey in the November drizzle. Like my visit to Whalley Abbey earlier in the year, it was really quite evocative, with clouds rolling across Pendle…
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Reblogged from Early Modern Female Book Ownership – The Worckes of Thomas Becon (1564)
by Jake Arthur In the hunt for women’s marginalia, the libraries of one of the oldest colleges in Oxford is not the likeliest port of call. Unlike … The Worckes of Thomas Becon (1564)
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Week 4…
Today is the end of week 4… I had planned to write a weekly update this term saying what I’d been up to, but as it’s already week 4, that’s clearly not happened. Anyway, I’ve been auditing one of the digital humanities MA course on digital texts, and this morning we were talking about writing…
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