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The end of the summer brought quite a few productive weeks, if I do say so myself.  While I was waiting for various things to do with the book manuscript to come together, I was also working on my Pilgrimage of Grace article.  It looks at a cluster of references to ballads and rhymes in…

Came across this interesting ballad post while I was looking for something else. Source: The Earliest Surviving Song in Praise of Queen Elizabeth I?

Sadly, I can’t make this event at the John Rylands, but I’d be interested to hear all about it. John Rylands Library Special Collections Blog Source: European Dimensions of Popular Print Culture (EDPOP)

Just a quick post to say that normal service will be resumed shortly – I’ve got lots of things on my list to write posts about, but I simply haven’t got the time at the moment to write them because I’m busy writing lectures and marking.  Normally I write a stack of posts and schedule…

I’m singing ballads at this event in Manchester. Rylands Blog The 31st October is a date which you might notice in the diary – perhaps an evening you mark with a ghoulish costume, or by taking the children trick or treating, or even staying in and watching a film that makes you want to hide…

Lately, I’ve been in the final stages of putting together the manuscript for the book.  As I came to the very end of the project, I spent a couple of days writing a few new bits for a reworked introduction.  I’d never been entirely comfortable with the fact that the first chapter was the introduction,…