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Musical musings
Last week, during my panel meeting, one of my supervisors pointed out that my use of the phrase ‘based on the tonic, sub-dominant and dominant chords’ to describe a seventeenth-century tune was anachronistic, but conceded that finding terms to describe Renaissance music was difficult. We arranged to discuss it further next week, but in the…
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Bethan Foulkes @ the People’s History Museum | Researchers in Residence
Blog post by my friend and Manchester PhD colleague, Bethan Foulkes, on her work with the Researchers in Residence Project. Bethan Foulkes @ the People’s History Museum | Researchers in Residence.
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How I turned into the woman who can stare at a single word for half an hour…
…wondering if it is exactly the right one to use in that particular place and if there is any way possible in which it could be misunderstood. I love words. I love the way there is always a perfect word no matter what you want to say, if you can only find it. But one…
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Panel and Paper
This week has been half term, so I’ve spent quite a bit of time playing with my children. We’ve been on a couple of walks, one round Tarn Hows in the Lake District and one from Wrea Green on the Fylde, close to where I grew up. But this has also been the week…
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Print and Materiality Seminar Series at The John Rylands Library
Originally posted on The History Fox: Print and Materiality Seminar Series at The John Rylands Library It’s a busy week this week as I will also be giving a paper in Manchester on Wednesday (19th) about the domestic object and magic in the childbirth process.
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5 ways to look more clever than you actually are
A very interesting blog post, especially for those who (like me) sometimes suffer from a serious case of imposter syndrome. The Thesis Whisperer Not so long ago I missed my flight back from Sydney to Melbourne. When I realised I was eating dinner instead of being on a plane on the way home to my…
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It’s gone!
I have finally sent off my commonwealth chapter to my panel, ahead of my meeting with them next week. I’m in a slightly different position to normal in that I was able to send it with a message telling them where I wanted help and where I hoped to expand it when I come to…
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Rebel without a clue
This afternoon’s job is to re-read a couple of articles by Ethan Shagan, because I suddenly realised that I have my 1549 rebels all mixed up together in my chapter and I don’t know which ones are which. This opening up of the ground under my commonwealth chapter’s feet occurred yesterday afternoon and left me…
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Tidings of Good News
I was warned on Wednesday that my luck will have to run out eventually. That may not sound too much like good news, but the converse is, of course, that, in order to provoke the comment, things must be going relatively well at the moment. Work on the commonwealth chapter continues, with some quite major…
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Andre Amador’s Playa Paintings are Sandy Works of Art
These are just gorgeous, so I felt the need to share. Andre Amador’s Playa Paintings are Sandy Works of Art.
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