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New Year
As I write this, I’m sitting on a train going to London for an HA Historian editorial board meeting. It’s our first in person meeting in 3 years, since the beginning of the covid pandemic. It will be an interesting meeting, where we will be discussing where the magazine will be going over the next…
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New Office
I have a new office. This is important, because it marks my transition to my permanent role in the History Department at Lancaster. In early February, I will be handing over the role of Administrator for the Social History Society to my successor so that I can concentrate on my 4-day teaching role but still…
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Sawley Abbey and the Pilgrimage of Grace
It’s been an interesting week for my Pilgrimage of Grace project, despite not having done any work on the book itself. Last week, my friend Kate and I visited Sawley Abbey in the November drizzle. Like my visit to Whalley Abbey earlier in the year, it was really quite evocative, with clouds rolling across Pendle…
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Reblogged from Early Modern Female Book Ownership – The Worckes of Thomas Becon (1564)
by Jake Arthur In the hunt for women’s marginalia, the libraries of one of the oldest colleges in Oxford is not the likeliest port of call. Unlike … The Worckes of Thomas Becon (1564)
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Book Contract
It’s been a particularly long week – not really sure why, I just seem to be very tired – but I have had some good news. I seem to have had a contract through for our co-authored Cambridge Elements book on news in early modern Europe. It’s based on the EDPOP panel I gave in…
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Week 4…
Today is the end of week 4… I had planned to write a weekly update this term saying what I’d been up to, but as it’s already week 4, that’s clearly not happened. Anyway, I’ve been auditing one of the digital humanities MA course on digital texts, and this morning we were talking about writing…
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My article for The Conversation – Comparing news of the deaths of Queens Elizabeth I and II
How news of the death of Elizabeth I in the 17th century was communicated in ballads and proclamations Jenni Hyde, Lancaster University When Queen Elizabeth II passed away on September 8, 2022, there can’t have been many people in the UK who hadn’t heard about it within hours of her death. The media was on high…
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Whalley Abbey
By the time you read this, it will be a few weeks ago, but today I made my first ever trip to Whalley Abbey. I’ve been intending to go for several years, ever since I started working on the Pilgrimage of Grace, but I have never made it. To be honest, it wasn’t that I…
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RSA Dublin 2022 Part 2
Back at the end of March, I went to Dublin with Amy-Louise Smith and Katherine Butler to present a panel at the Renaissance Society of America Annual Meeting in Dublin. It was a really lovely few days, and good to be back at a face to face conference, and this is the second in a…
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RSA Dublin 2022 Part 1
Back at the end of March, I went to Dublin with Amy-Louise Smith and Katherine Butler to present a panel at the Renaissance Society of America Annual Meeting in Dublin. It was a really lovely few days, and good to be back at a face to face conference, and this is the first in a…
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