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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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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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North West Early Modern Seminar in Liverpool
I recently attended the latest meeting of the North West Early Modern Seminar Series, which was held at Liverpool University on 1 November. It came at the end of a particularly busy few days for me, so I was really quite tired, but happily there was lovely homemade spiced apple cake from Elaine Chalus and…
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Chris Marsh on Gender Roles in Popular Ballads
At the end of September I killed several birds with one stone by taking a short trip to London. As well as attending a Historical Association committee meeting, I spent an afternoon in the British Library and an evening at the Royal Historical Society lecture given by Professor Christopher Marsh, ‘The woman to the plow…
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Pilgrimage of Grace
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…
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Reblogged from Katherine Butler – The Earliest Surviving Song in Praise of Queen Elizabeth I?
Came across this interesting ballad post while I was looking for something else. Source: The Earliest Surviving Song in Praise of Queen Elizabeth I?
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European Dimensions of Popular Print Culture (EDPOP)
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)
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The Reformation of the People? The View from the Alebench
Originally posted on the many-headed monster: Mark Hailwood It’s not every day the Protestant Reformation gets to celebrate its 500th birthday – well, only on one day, really. And it’s no surprise that yesterday’s anniversary of that fateful day when Martin Luther nailed his 95 theses to the church door of Wittenberg – the first…
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Snowed under
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…
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