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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,…

This PhD has been a long time coming.  I started thinking about it two years ago, when my youngest son started pre-school.  I suppose I should make it clear right from the start that I’m not your average twenty-something graduate student.  I’m in my mid-thirties (‘an early-summer chicken’ was how a friend recently described me),…