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Branch Vice President Receives H.A. Fellowship
Originally posted on Historical Association Bolton Branch: Bolton Branch Vice President, Dr Glyn Redworth The Bolton Branch is pleased to announce that our Vice President, Dr Glyn Redworth, has been made an Honorary Fellow of the Historical Association. Dr Redworth provided some of the first Historical Association podcasts on Golden Age Spain and is a…
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University of Manchester Vice Chancellor on Supervising PhDs (From My Manchester online)
Issue 29, 2012 (The University of Manchester). My Manchester News > Issue 29, 2012 Why I love PhD students, by Professor Dame Nancy Rothwell Published on 15 May 13 I was asked the other day if I had any regrets about taking up the position of President and Vice-Chancellor. The answer was: “Remarkably few.” But…
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Historical Association Receives Support From Historians
http://www.history.org.uk/news/news_1790.html Publication date: Tuesday 14th May 2013 Thank you from the President of the HA In response to a speech by Michael Gove on 9th May 2013, the following letter from 54 historians was published in The Times on 14th May 2013. As President of the Historical Association, I would like to thank the signatories…
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The HA Response to Michael Gove’s Attack
Publication date: Friday 10th May 2013 Cartoons and Mr Men On the morning of Thursday 9th May the Secretary of State for Education delivered a speech at Brighton College entitled “What does it mean to be an educated person?” The focus of the speech is a criticism of those who have opposed his department’s proposals…
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Out Walking
Proof, if it were needed, that I live in a beautiful part of the country. This morning we did a three and a half mile walk near Caton, Lancaster, and although we got rather wet (where did that rain come from? It wasn’t forecast…) we all rather enjoyed it. We drove back over the tops…
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Bank holiday weekend
So now I’m looking forward to a quiet family weekend. We’re thinking of having a barbecue if the weather is as good as the forecast suggests and there are several things that need doing in the garden (planting beans, putting hanging baskets together, a bit of weeding). My husband has promised to take the children…
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Spring has sprung at last
Weather-wise, it’s been a much better week. Yesterday the weather was beautiful, but unfortunately I wasn’t in a fit state to enjoy it. My eldest kindly brought a bug home from school earlier in the week and having had a sleepless night on Tuesday, I wasn’t in a fit state to kick it out of…
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Happy days
Well, the planning paid off. At least in as much as I got through my big supervision meeting on Wednesday without making a complete fool of myself. Actually, they seemed to be quite impressed with the content, if not entirely by the structure, of the work I submitted. My music specialist gave me lots of…
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The forgotten art of planning
On Friday afternoon I sent off first draft of my first chapter to my supervisors. It’s been a tough week, as on Monday evening I was really struggling to make the chapter work because it had just evolved out of my notes. I couldn’t get the separate bits of the chapter to hang together –…
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