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John Balshaw’s Jigge: A Live Performance – the rehearsals
Back in June, we gave a live performance of John Balshaw’s Jigge at the Community Hall in Brindle where it was written in the seventeenth century. Having cast the performers, they were left to learn their parts for several weeks until we had two intensive days of rehearsal at the beginning of June – these…
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John Balshaw’s Jigge: A Live Performance – the preparations
There have been several things keeping me busy over the last few months. One of the biggest was the live performance of John Balshaw’s Jigge that we gave in Brindle on 17 June. It was a fabulous experience for all concerned. Last autumn I engaged a director I know who lives in the Isle of…
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New Module – 1517
This year, the only new module I ran was my ‘dates’ module. At Lancaster, we are still running on terms, and the first years have a short course after Easter that is only three weeks long, centred around a significant date in history and intended to do some in depth source analysis. There are only…
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Treason Talk
The other evening I enjoyed a talk from Euan Rogers of The National Archives, who gave a talk at Lancaster for the Centre for War and Diplomacy on the history of treason over 700 years. He began by pointing out that treason reflects a real sense of betrayal, but also has a legal definition which…
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Civil War Petitions Lecture
On Tuesday, I went to a lecture held by Lancaster University’s Centre for War and Diplomacy on Theory and Practice in Military Medicine during the English Civil Wars: New Evidence from Civil War Petitions by Ismini Pells. This was obviously of interest given the period, but also because one of my students a couple of…
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EBBA Anniversary Conference Part 4
Back in February I was privileged to go to the University of California, Santa Barbara for the English Broadside Ballad Archive 25th Anniversary Conference, so here is my third post about my first ever trip to the States, of which I have some very fond memories! After a delicious lunch, with the best beef sandwich…
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EBBA Anniversary Conference Part 3
Back in February I was privileged to go to the University of California, Santa Barbara for the English Broadside Ballad Archive 25th Anniversary Conference, so here is my third post about my first ever trip to the States, of which I have some very fond memories! Day 2 started with yet more rain, pancakes, and…
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John Balshaw’s Jigge: A Live Performance
Tickets are now on sale for our live performance of John Balshaw’s Jigge in Brindle on 17 June! We have a director, 6 actors and 2 musicians, and I’m really looking forward to it. The performance starts at 7pm with a short introductory talk, and the performance of the Jigge will follow at about 7.15pm.…
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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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