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  • October 25, 2013

    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!…

  • October 21, 2013

    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…

  • October 19, 2013

    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,…

  • October 18, 2013

    North West Early Modern Seminar

    Originally posted on North West Early Modern Seminar: North West Early Modern Seminar View original post

  • October 6, 2013

    The bog.

    I’m stuck in a bog.  Or at least, that’s how my work feels.  It went overnight from ideas coming out of my ears to being trapped in icky-sticky mud that won’t release its grip on my feet and let me move.  I’m not sure how it happened.  One day everything was chugging along as normal…

  • September 27, 2013

    More planning

    I’ve spent most of this week writing my common weal chapter and despite my misgivings about how much I would get for it, I’ve actually written about 4200 words.  Last Sunday I spent the afternoon at my kitchen table, cutting 4 different versions of the same ballad into little pieces and sticking them back together…

  • September 20, 2013

    The Common Weal

    This is the first time since I started back at work that I’ve really felt like I’m back at work.  I’ve begun work on my fifth chapter, ballads and the common weal.  But it’s been a funny sort of week.  I spent Monday with my head stuck in my source material, trying to find the…

  • September 14, 2013

    Summer goals: the final score

    The results of my summer goals: • Definition of ‘ballad’ for introduction. I’m part way through this, although it needs a LOT more work. I’m discussing it with friends that I met at the Psalm Culture conference in London in July and I’ve given it a lot of thought, but so far, there’s only a…

  • September 7, 2013

    Transcribing and Broadcasting

    I went back to work on Wednesday, when my children went back to school.  Most of my work this week has been on transcriptions of manscripts from the British Library but I’ve also read some secondary material. I’ve carried on working today, because despite my intentions to spend three whole days immersed in my primary…

  • August 30, 2013

    End of the Summer Holidays

    So far, so good.  I’ve managed to successfully avoid doing any work on my PhD for two weeks.  This may not seem like a cause for celebration (indeed, bits of me are itching to open a book or rifle through a few ballads or even do some filing) but I am extremely poor at doing…

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