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MEMSFest 2020 Part 1
Although the coronavirus pandemic has caused some considerable problems with research and the sudden reorganisation of teaching, it has also opened up some opportunities that I wouldn’t ordinarily have had to network, attend conferences and hear about other people’s research. As an early modernist working in a department where there aren’t all that many of…
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Getting to know John Balshaw – Part 7
This is the last in a short series of posts on my research into John Balshaw’s Jig. It’s a short ‘musical comedy’ written by a man in Brindle, Lancashire, in the mid-seventeenth century. I found the manuscript in the British Library a couple of years ago, and transcribed it, and I’ve already written a blog…
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Getting to Know John Balshaw – Part 6
This is the sixth in a short series of posts on my research into John Balshaw’s Jig. It’s a short ‘musical comedy’ written by a man in Brindle, Lancashire, in the mid-seventeenth century. I found the manuscript in the British Library a couple of years ago, and transcribed it, and I’ve already written a blog…
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Getting to Know John Balshaw – Part 5
This is the fifth in a short series of posts on my research into John Balshaw’s Jig. It’s a short ‘musical comedy’ written by a man in Brindle, Lancashire, in the mid-seventeenth century. I found the manuscript in the British Library a couple of years ago, and transcribed it, and I’ve already written a blog…
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Getting to Know John Balshaw – Part 4
This is the fourth in a short series of posts on my research into John Balshaw’s Jig. It’s a short ‘musical comedy’ written by a man in Brindle, Lancashire, in the mid-seventeenth century. I found the manuscript in the British Library a couple of years ago, and transcribed it, and I’ve already written a blog…
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Getting to Know John Balshaw – Part 3
This is the third in a short series of posts on my research into John Balshaw’s Jig. It’s a short ‘musical comedy’ written by a man in Brindle, Lancashire, in the mid-seventeenth century. I found the manuscript in the British Library a couple of years ago, and transcribed it, and I’ve already written a blog…
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Getting to know John Balshaw – Part 2
This is the second in a short series of posts on my research into John Balshaw’s Jig. It’s a short ‘musical comedy’ written by a man in Brindle, Lancashire, in the mid-seventeenth century. I found the manuscript in the British Library a couple of years ago, and transcribed it, and I’ve already written a blog…
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Getting to Know John Balshaw – Part 1
This is the first in a short series of posts on my research into John Balshaw’s Jig. It’s a short ‘musical comedy’ written by a man in Brindle, Lancashire, in the mid-seventeenth century. I found the manuscript in the British Library a couple of years ago, and transcribed it, and I’ve already written a blog…
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Working through Lockdown
Since I finished my teaching for this year at Lancaster, I’ve been keeping busy in several ways. For one thing, I’ve taken a more hands on role in home schooling my daughter – so far it’s mainly been English Literature and science, but we’ll start feeding the history and music back in after half term. …
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Social History Society Blog
Back at the beginning of the year I was asked to write a blog post about Singing the News for the Social History Society website. I decided to take the Cromwell ballads as my starting point to think about what songs can tell us about 16th century England. You can read my post here.
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