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Seminars and an article
An interesting week. I’ve spent most of it smoothing out the wrinkles in my epitaph ballad article. I think it’s nearly ready to go, which is quite pleasing. The process of refinement is interesting and one that I really quite enjoy, as it brings out the pedant in me. I’ve spent most of the week…
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Happy Anniversary Doctor Who
Just as an aside, nothing to do with anything else, can I just say a belated Happy 50th to Doctor Who. One very happy family sat on the sofa together with a packet of curly wurlies and thoroughly enjoyed the special last night. Brilliant. Particularly amused to find out why Elizabeth I never married, of…
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Review: Elizabeth I and her people – National Portrait Gallery exhibition
Originally posted on Mathew Lyons: Those whose interest lies outside the Tudor era could be forgiven for exasperation at the extent to which the long sixteenth century still dominates our nation’s cultural life. But the new exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery – Elizabeth I and Her People, which runs until January 5 2014 –…
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Back on track?
You may have noticed that I didn’t post a blog last week. This was mainly down to the tremendous amount of stress I was under – several problems, nothing to do with my PhD and way beyond the scope of this blog, came together to make last week the week from hell. What few attempts…
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The Adventures of Notorious Ph.D., Girl Scholar: The Daily Mail’s “History Girls,” or: Do I have to wear stilettos to the archive now?
Quite a well-considered response, I think. The Adventures of Notorious Ph.D., Girl Scholar: The Daily Mail’s “History Girls,” or: Do I have to wear stilettos to the archive now?.
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A Change is as Good as a Rest?
This week has been rather different to normal. Foolishly, at 8am on Monday morning I was at Preston station in the hope of travelling to London, but the storm rather got in the way. Instead of arriving in London at 10, it was lunchtime when I got there, so I missed a few hours’ work…
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The Way Through the Woods
Yesterday I met my supervisors to Discuss the Chapter. I took a list of questions and comments, a piece of work on some manuscript miscellanies that I’ve been studying and some examples of ballads that fitted some of the categories I’d been working on. Between us, I think we’ve managed to find an approach that…
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Registration is now open for the workshop on 1st November
Originally posted on History Lab North West: The programme has now been finalised for our workshop at the University of Manchester on Friday 1st November. It’s free to attend and lunch and refreshments will be provided. If you’d like to come along, just email us at historylab.northwest@hotmail.com to register. We hope to see you there!…
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Having ‘the chat’ with your supervisor: what I talk about when I talk about depression.
Considering the state I’ve been in over the last few weeks, this seemed apposite…
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The Bog – Part 2
You may have noticed that there wasn’t a blog post on Friday evening. Nor was there one the Friday before. There reason was that I didn’t feel like it; I didn’t want to acknowledge in public that I’m still stuck in the bog, probably waist rather than ankle-deep now. In fact, if truth be told,…
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