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Finally, a good week!
After a couple of dodgy days at the beginning, the week has definitely ended on a high. I spent quite a lot of time at the beginning of the week consolidating the ideas that my trip to the British Library generated and I wrote a thousand words in a couple of hours, bringing together my…
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The British Library
I spent this week working in the British Library, looking at lots of old manuscripts and some printed music. I’ve been looking for ballads in commonplace books and found some really interesting stuff. Yesterday I looked at the two oldest known pieces of English sheet music, which was amazing. Highlight of the week, though, had…
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Dread Again
[I’m told that for some people this dangled mid-sentence and never got to the point I wanted to make, so I’m trying it again] It has been a relatively quiet week. I spent two days working on my chapter, determined to get something that vaguely resembled a draft ready before I went to London. …
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Fibre optic cranes and writing the common weal
I don’t have a lot to tell, this week (after all, it’s only a couple of days since I last posted) so I thought I’d just share the good news that I’d managed to write a bit of my common weal chapter and then post some photos of some of my favourite birds from today’s…
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2014
The year of big, scary life changes. The year in which my husband is likely to retire and in which I need to become the main breadwinner for the family. The year in which, 20 years after starting at the University of Manchester the first time round, I should earn the title of doctor. So…
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Reblogged from BBC News – Fylde Guitars’ Roger Bucknall looks back at 40 years of acoustic adventures
I am lucky enough to own one of Roger’s custom-made models (though it wasn’t custom-made for me!). It will always be one of my most treasured possessions. Beautiful to look at; beautiful to hold; beautiful to listen to; beautiful to play. BBC News – Fylde Guitars’ Roger Bucknall looks back at 40 years of acoustic…
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Christmas 2013
I’ve been rather unpredictable in my blog posts lately, mainly because I used to write them on Friday evenings as a review of what I’d done during the ‘normal working week’ (Show me a scholar who works a normal working week? No? No, me neither…), but since the summer the whole family has been going…
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▶ Reno erat Rudolphus by eyolfos
▶ Reno erat Rudolphus by eyolfos. I will get back to my blog properly by the end of the week, I promise. But in the meantime, this appealed to my sense of fun. The strangest stuff turns up on Facebook. Earlier in the week one of my friends posted a video of a group of…
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A winter’s tale
I’ve been trying to fight off this cold for nearly two weeks, but it’s finally floored me. I’ve been given antibiotics for an upper respiratory tract infection, having spent yesterday shivering under two duvets. On Tuesday I finally submitted my epitaph ballad article, so fingers crossed. I’m pleased with it, but I’m under no illusions…
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The North West Early Modern Seminar at Lancaster University
Originally posted on North West Early Modern Seminar: Our 5 minute “speed-daters”. From left to right: Naomi Tadmor who chaired the event, Michael Smith (University of Manchester), Sarah Ann Robin (Lancaster University), Naya Tsentourou (Lancaster University), Stephen Pumfrey (Lancaster University) and Helen Davies (Lancaster University). Jennifer Hyde, (University of Manchester), delivering her paper ‘Kowingness…
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