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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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

This week I have finally got back to a bit of work on the book project. I’m actually quite excited because as I write this, tomorrow I’m going to be singing at Whalley Abbey, but more on that another week! I’ve done some reading, on the history of the north south divide, and on working…

For the second year, I’ve signed up for the Diabetes UK Million Step Challenge. Until October, I need to do almost 11,000 steps a day, and as I write this on day 16, I’ve already done more than 200,000, which is a really good start. Last year I was only a couple of days away…

It’s been such a busy few weeks that I haven’t had much time to myself, let alone much time to write anything for the blog. The week before last, we held the Social History Society Conference in Lancaster. As administrator, I didn’t make it to any of the papers (I was too busy running around…

This week has mainly been taken up with preparing for the Social History Society Conference (largely sending emails and trying to chase things that haven’t been finalised yet) and catching up on many of the papers I missed at the Soundscapes in the Early Modern World Conference last summer! Because I was running the SHS…

I can’t actually remember the last time I went to two concerts in three days, nor can I remember the last time I was still up at 2am… but this week I have done just that. I went with family to see Johnny McEvoy in Stockport on Thursday and then in Leeds last night. It…