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Submission
The blog has been somewhat quiet over the last couple of months. Silent as the grave, in fact. There was, however, good reason. I was busy as the proverbial bee, finishing the thesis. So with the electronic submission complete and only the printing, binding and handing over of the examination copies left to do, here…
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2014 Summer Goal
Really, there is only one: to finish the thesis. It’s been a while since I had time to update the blog, mainly because my work schedule has been so heavy, but also because my free time has been taken up, quite rightly, with family things: a holdiay, sports days, various local field days, that sort…
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‘A Century On The Dole: From the Poor Laws to JobCentrePlus’
Please support this event, set up by my friend and fellow Manchester PGR, Bethan.
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Reblogged: thornhaugh street | Darkest London
Fascinated by this post about a university building in London which apologises for its existence. Perhaps the University of Oxford’s new accommodation blocks could take a stone from its plaque, since they ought to apologise for their ugly presence dominating the skyline of Port Meadow without proper consultation. thornhaugh street | Darkest London.
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“And what are your conclusions so far?”
“And what are your conclusions so far?” I was asked that a couple of weeks ago, and I was slightly taken off guard. It was because I couldn’t immediately come up with an answer that I decided I needed to take stock! I am convinced that the ballad music has more links with…
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Reblogged: on not quitting the doctorate, by Pat Thomson
Originally posted on patter: We hear a lot these days about people quitting the PhD – they have institutional difficulties, experience appalling discrimination, have serious supervision troubles, struggle with funding. These are dreadful experiences and we do need to hear about them. We also hear quite a lot about how hard the PhD is and…
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Easter vacation
With the children on their Easter break, work over the last couple of weeks has been rather hit and miss. Mainly miss, to be honest. But I have spent some time working on a short historiographical piece about the relationship between ballads and news, which I’m happy to say is nearly finished. In the…
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Fountains Abbey
We have been enjoying the Easter sunshine with a day out at Fountains Abbey. For the first time (I’ve been there many times before) I walked along the one of the top paths to Anne Boleyn’s view, which is apparently so called because a headless statue once stood there! It was a beautiful day. …
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Research Fundermentals: Peer Review & Changing a Lightbulb: a Historian’s View
Very amusing! Research Fundermentals: Peer Review & Changing a Lightbulb: a Historian’s View.
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Easter holidays
This week is the first week of my children’s Easter holiday, so I am juggling childcare with work. Cramming little bits of work into wherever it will fit isn’t easy and it certainly doesn’t allow for extended research or writing, for example. But there are little things that I can do. I went through a…
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