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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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A Change of Direction
As of this afternoon I have a new theme for my work, which is now possibly going to be entitled “Perceptions of Female Piety 1553-1603”. So a change to the title of the page (although Philip and Mary live on in the permalink, I think), and no photo at the moment until I can find…
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Reading Week
Well, this week the children were back at school, which meant I had a bit more time, but my husband was still at home, which meant there was a bit of a distraction. But I’ve got quite a lot done, partly because it’s been reading week so I haven’t had Spanish or the MA course…
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(Lack of) Progress Report
Well, probably not the best week ever. Discovering that someone else is allegedly working on pretty much the same topic that you were going to investigate isn’t ideal. In fact, it’s something of a body blow. It shows, I suppose, that the topic was worth investigating. It seems that in terms of the work, my…
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Introducing my PhD
The Dynamics of Persecution Under King Philip and Queen Mary was intended to take the burning of protestant martyrs in their reign as a whole, but from the point of view of the martyrs really, rather than the state. I would argue that the research so far in this area has been state-centred, looking at…
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