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Yesterday I went to London on the train from Manchester Piccadilly, to go to the Branch Officers’ Meeting of the Historical Association. I got plenty of work done on the train, and even managed to send an email (which was a first for me – sending one from a train, that is!) before the WiFi…

Catholic martyr Margaret Clitherow.  Just seemed like a good picture!

As of this afternoon I have a new theme for my work, which is now possibly going to be entitled “Perceptions of Female Piety 1553-1603”.  So a change to the title of the page (although Philip and Mary live on in the permalink, I think), and no photo at the moment until I can find…

Well, this week the children were back at school, which meant I had a bit more time, but my husband was still at home, which meant there was a bit of a distraction.  But I’ve got quite a lot done, partly because it’s been reading week so I haven’t had Spanish or the MA course…

Well, probably not the best week ever.  Discovering that someone else is allegedly working on pretty much the same topic that you were going to investigate isn’t ideal.  In fact, it’s something of a body blow.  It shows, I suppose, that the topic was worth investigating.  It seems that  in terms of the work, my…

…and this is them:

This is me:    

The Dynamics of Persecution Under King Philip and Queen Mary was intended to take the burning of protestant martyrs in their reign as a whole, but from the point of view of the martyrs really, rather than the state.  I would argue that the research so far in this area has been state-centred, looking at…

Well, that’s certainly a good question.  Today does feel like it’s been a waste of time: a couple of emails sent; a couple of books ordered through inter-library loans; tracing some documents to the British Library; reading (well, skimming) a couple of hundred pages on early modern class and hierarchy for a seminar on Tuesday;…

So the plan for today is to prepare for a seminar on Tuesday, do a bit of singing, have a(nother) look at the National Archive palaeography exercises and start the background reading that my new supervisor has set.  I have to email a contact about the location of some of my source material too.  Oh,…