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Time off
I’m having a couple of weeks off! So far I have successfully avoided doing any work on my thesis and this is good. Instead, I’ve done a lot of work for the Historical Association. Also, I did a 4.5 mile walk from Garstang, which I have to say wasn’t the most interesting walk I’ve done…
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Art Everywhere
Fittingly, the first Art Everywhere poster that I saw was the Pelican Portrait of Elizabeth I! It was on the concourse of Oxford Station. Then on the way home from the Cotswolds we stopped at a motorway service station and saw the Ambassadors, Blaze 4, For You and Whistlejacket. Apparently my husband and children saw…
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Fun in the Cotswolds
Generally speaking, I’m useless at doing nothing. Even if I’m watching television I am usually doing something else at the same time. However, on Monday evening I found myself doing just that – staring out the front of the tent into space and doing absolutely nothing. It didn’t last long, but I think it showed…
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Oxford Archives
On Monday I did a day’s work on manuscripts held in the Bodleian Library. Particularly, of course, Ashmole 48 – Richard Sheale’s ballad collection. There is some dispute over the purpose of the collection. Sheale is known to have been a minstrel attached to the Stanley family, but interpretations over the years have described Ashmole…
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Art Everywhere turns UK’s streets into world’s largest art show | Art and design | theguardian.com
Art Everywhere turns UK’s streets into world’s largest art show | Art and design | theguardian.com. Today’s Guardian has a free guide to the art works and on the website, a gallery.
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History students will no longer tolerate or believe grand narratives | Colm Tóibín | Comment is free | The Guardian
History students will no longer tolerate or believe grand narratives | Colm Tóibín | Comment is free | The Guardian. So many big issues in such a short article. Fascinating to me because my other historical passion (aside from the early modern) is Irish history. Of all the places in the world where you might…
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10 truths a PhD supervisor will never tell you | Features | Times Higher Education
10 truths a PhD supervisor will never tell you | Features | Times Higher Education. Interesting article. I’m not sure I agree with them all, but certainly they are food for thought.
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Help Us To Curate the World’s Biggest Art Show – Art Everywhere
Help Us To Curate the World’s Biggest Art Show – Art Everywhere. What a brilliant idea. I am SO impressed and I really hope I see some of these around. Lovely, of course, to see the Pelican Portrait of Queen Elizabeth and the Ambassadors in there, but I’m quite taken with Cold Dark Matter: An…
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Summer goals update
I thought I’d give you a quick update on my progress towards 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…
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Thomas Cromwell
I have spent a lot of time this week re-writing the chapter I blitzed in January on the Thomas Cromwell ballad flyting. I was never very happy with it, mainly because all I did was throw all my thoughts about each ballad down on paper before trying to chop it into themes, which was rather…
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