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At the beginning of May, I was privileged to be asked to speak at the Historical Association Conference in Manchester.  It was an excellent weekend with a wide range of lectures and continuing professional development opportunities. This is the second in a series of blog posts about the various lectures and workshops I attended. After…

Today marks the launch of the University of Oxford’s ‘Lest We Forget’ project aimed at saving and preserving material owned by the public related to WW1. WEW are seeking to donations to fund the pr… Source: Launch of the University of Oxford’s ‘Lest We Forget’ – and how YOU can help

At the beginning of May, I was privileged to be asked to speak at the Historical Association Conference in the luxurious surroundings of the Mercure Piccadilly Hotel in Manchester.  It was an excellent weekend with a wide range of lectures and continuing professional development opportunities.  I came away with lots of great ideas to work…

A few weeks ago I was trying to work out how to liven up the teaching session on the Civil War for my first year undergraduates.  I decided to check out Emma Kennedy’s really useful teaching and learning advent calendar for ideas, as it was me that suggested that she could source teaching ideas for it from…

Originally posted on Historical Association Bolton Branch: Branch secretary Jenni Hyde chatted to Kevan Williams of community radio station Bolton FM on Friday 19 May about the work of the Historical Association nationally and in Bolton. She invited everyone to join the branch at our special event on Wednesday 24th May 2017 10.30am-12.30pm at Bolton…

This is a well thought out post on dealing with the dips in the PhD journey, that I think applies whatever the research project. Personally, my advice would be to watch out for “Deep cleaning the bathroom.” I know it’s a piece of advice that works and at the root of it is a need…

I spent much of Easter in a frantic attempt to edit my book to submit it to another publisher.  Over the years, I have come to realise that my way of writing tends not to suit publication.  I tend to write as I go along, developing my ideas throughout a paragraph until I reach the…

Before I started my PhD (which feels like a century ago even though it’s not), my Fiend memorably said to me “As for an academic career, I’d say forget it”.  The irony was that I hadn’t thought about it in order to be able to forget about it.  This is from Cath Feely on the…

Originally posted on The Research Whisperer: Dr Dani Barrington is a Research Fellow in Water Engineering for Developing Countries at Cranfield University, and an Honorary Fellow at The University of Queensland. Her work focuses on water, s16anitation and hygiene (#WASH); check out a video of the cool “Reinvented Toilet” she’s working on nowadays. She tweets at @Dani_Barrington.…

At the end of April, I gave a short paper to the North West Early Modern Seminar at the John Rylands Library in Manchester.  There were lots of other interesting speakers and it was lovely to catch up with some of my Manchester friends, (especially Ros Oates and Sasha Handley, who both, at different times,…