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Recording ballads 1
I’ve spent a lot of time since the beginning of the year recording ballads for this website to accompany my new book. This is first in a short series of posts about what I’ve been up to. First, I must thank Stephen Kelly for prompting me to begin this project. While I was working at…
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Books and ballads
Earlier this week, I had an email from the publisher of my book to say that it has gone to the printer. According to their website, it is due for publication on 22 February, so it’s not long now. It’s an exciting, if somewhat scary, prospect. I decided that it was about time I created…
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Copyediting and Proofreading
I spent a lot of my Christmas and new year checking the copy edit and page proofs of my forthcoming book Singing the News, and writing the index. It was a strange experience. My fiend rang one day while I was sitting at my desk staring at the page proofs, and asked if I were enjoying…
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Teaching witchcraft
In the run up to Christmas, I taught for four weeks on Liverpool Hope’s second year witchcraft and witch-hunting course. It was interesting to look into the subject in more depth than we do on the first year survey course, especially as I had lectures to write as well as seminars and tutorials to run.…
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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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1st January 2018
1st January 2018. The start of the year when my first book will be published. And it came as something of a surprise to me to see that Amazon is telling me it will be released on 22 February, as I was expecting it to be March, and what’s more, I am still checking the…
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Teaching the Twentieth Century
My portfolio career is such that among my teaching is an introductory module for Liverpool Hope University on twentieth century Europe. This is ‘flipped learning’ course, where the students access recorded lectures and course materials via the course moodle and then attend seminars and tutorials ready to discuss the issues that they’ve come across. Last…
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Performing Reformation Ballads in Manchester
The end of October was very busy, what with several Historical Association meetings in London as well as two public engagements. The first of these was a speaking engagement at Ewecross, but the second was something a bit different – a 45 minute performance of Tudor ballads at the John Rylands Library event to commemorate…
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Singing the News at Ewecross
I was delighted earlier this year to be asked to give my talk on Singing the News in mid-Tudor England at Ewecross Historical Society which meets in High Bentham on the top edge of the Forest of Bowland (being a forest, there’s no direct route there from here, so it’s actually about an hour’s journey…
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Archive work in the British Library – the way I work
At the end of September I went down to London to hear a paper by Chris Marsh at the Royal Historical Society, so I took the opportunity to travel down a bit ahead of time and spend the afternoon in the British Library. This is something I haven’t done for a couple of years, for…
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