Category: writing
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Book Contract
It’s been a particularly long week – not really sure why, I just seem to be very tired – but I have had some good news. I seem to have had a contract through for our co-authored Cambridge Elements book on news in early modern Europe. It’s based on the EDPOP panel I gave in…
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Over the next hill
When your wheels are burning up the miles and you’re wearing down shoe leather, When your face is frozen in a smile and the road goes on forever, Forever, forever, the road goes on forever, Over the next hill maybe there’s good weather.” (Steve Tilston) That song seemed to have been specially written for the…
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The way we work
I was I was fascinated by this series of posts on Twitter by Bradley Irish… It’s true, I think. I was reminded of some interviews done by the Marine Lives project last year which looked at the way historians carry out research using electronic databases. I wrote a short blog post at the time,…
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Back to the book
Since my children returned to school the push has been on to complete the final stages of my book manuscript. It’s due to go to the publisher at the end of September, so I’ve been doing all the tedious things that come with completion. Things like making sure all the images that I am using…
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November news
Last Friday saw the publication of my first full length, peer-reviewed article, Verse Epitaphs and the Memorialisation of Women in Reformation England, commissioned by Liz Oakley-Brown when she was editor of the Renaissance section of Literature Compass. I’m happy to say that it comes with its own teaching and learning guide, as well as supporting…
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William Elderton and the Ladie Marques part 1
I’ve been doing a lot of work on ballad epitaphs in recent months, inspired by a William Elderton ballad entitled A proper new balad of my ladie marques, Whose death is bewailed To the tune of new lusty gallant. The first thing that caught my attention was the fact that the epitaph had a named, known…
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2015 and on
The big highlight of 2015 has to have been passing my viva and becoming a doctor. I’m still quite pleased with the way my thesis looks sitting on the shelf, even though I never got it bound (Manchester only requires electronic submission of corrected theses). I like it the way it is. And graduation…
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Beginning Life as an ‘Independent Researcher’
Today I started a new phase of my life: I am officially an independent researcher. It’s not a role I’d have chosen, if I’m honest, and, so far at least, it’s not one I’m particularly enjoying. In fact, after one day on the job, I’m finding it incredibly frustrating. My institutional access ran out last…
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Academically Homeless
Yesterday I logged in to my Manchester University library account and discovered that I can no longer renew my books. This came as a bit of a surprise. There’s nothing urgent, you understand, it just brought home to me the fact that, slowly and surely, I’m being set adrift in the big, wide world again. …
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