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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),…