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After Easter, I attended three sessions of training on Transkribus, the Handwriting Recognition Software that works a bit like Optical Character Recognition to create automatic transcriptions of manuscripts. This is the second in a series of three posts about the training. The second session was a bit different. Before going into further information about how…

After Easter, I attended three sessions of training on Transkribus, the Handwriting Recognition Software that works a bit like Optical Character Recognition to create automatic transcriptions of manuscripts. This is the first in a series of three posts about the training. The first session was a bit of an epic – 4 hours of training…

We’re over the hump. Week 6 was, in the words of our excellent part 2 administrator, the week that was trying to kill me. In an already crowded teaching timetable, I had an extra six hours of teaching. This was self-inflicted. Another way of looking at it is that I am a victim of my…

I’ve just found out what I’m teaching next year, and it’s quite a change from previous years. Of course, I’m going to be teaching my new Crisis and Continuity Course at Part II (second and third year), and I’m still teaching Hist401, the MA Core Course, to the students on campus. This means that my…

On Saturday 17 June 2023, I led a cast of students and professionals to put on the world premiere of John Balshaw’s Jigge in Brindle, where it was first written around 350 years ago. It was a fantastic experience for all concerned, and I’m pleased to say that the audience seemed to enjoy it as…

Long time readers of this blog will know that for a couple of years I was the administrator for the Social History Society. The role is run as a postdoctoral position out of the History Department at Lancaster University and helps to keep a newly-minted PhD in academia while they try to get an academic…

Back in June, we gave a live performance of John Balshaw’s Jigge at the Community Hall in Brindle where it was written in the seventeenth century. Having cast the performers, they were left to learn their parts for several weeks until we had two intensive days of rehearsal at the beginning of June – these…

There have been several things keeping me busy over the last few months. One of the biggest was the live performance of John Balshaw’s Jigge that we gave in Brindle on 17 June. It was a fabulous experience for all concerned. Last autumn I engaged a director I know who lives in the Isle of…

This year, the only new module I ran was my ‘dates’ module. At Lancaster, we are still running on terms, and the first years have a short course after Easter that is only three weeks long, centred around a significant date in history and intended to do some in depth source analysis. There are only…